Original sentence: Maxime Rodinson finds that it should be accepted as true "because the makers of Muslim tradition would never have invented a story with such damaging implications for the revelation as a whole.Satanic Verses is an expression coined by the historian Sir William Muir in reference to several verses delivered by Muhammad as part of the Qur'an and later retracted.Since William Muir the historicity of this episode has been largely accepted by Western scholars of Islam.The novel contains some allusions to Islamic history, which provoked both controversy and outrage
Edited sentence: , 316, 322); and several details of the story- the mosque, the sajda, and others not mentioned in the short summary above- do not belong to a Meccan setting.Although there could be some historical basis for the story, in its present form it is certainly a later, exegetical fabrication.Fazlur Rahman has argued that if we are to trust Ibn Ishaq on other matters, we must trust him on this one.Kur'ān, Encyclopaedia of Islam (EI)².Maxime Rodinson finds that it may reasonably be accepted as true "because the makers of Muslim tradition would never have invented a story with such damaging implications for the revelation as a whole.Satanic Verses is an expression coined by the historian Sir William Muir in reference to several verses allegedly delivered by Muhammad as part of the Qur'an and later retracted.Since William Muir the historicity of this episode (whether as an actual discrete event, or as a dramatization of a longer process of accommodation and then confrontation with Meccan polytheism) has been largely accepted by Western scholars of Islam.Sūra LIII, 1-20 and the end of the sūra are not a unity, as is claimed by the story; XXII, 52, is later than LIII, 21-7, and is almost certainly Medinan (see Bell, Trans.The novel contains some fictionalized allusions to Islamic history, which provoked both controversy and outrage