The 2nd group The second group of scholars, the “skeptics,” are by far larger. Its members likewise do not accept traditional account, considering it unreliable along with nearly every report in the Islamic literary sources bearing on Islamic origins. But they do not subscribe to the theories of the revisionists either, which they consider to be unsupported by the evidence. The scholars in this group are agnostics, so to speak. They may not assert that the standard text came into being or changed significantly after ‘Uthman, but they do not deny that it could have. There exists 3rd minor groups: The neo-traditionalists. • They support key features of the traditional narrative. They do not take all the reports in the later sources at face level, but they believe that critical and detailed analysis of the literary evidence confirms elements of the traditional account.
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