The Collection of the Qur'an »

Dr Burton argues that the function of the ascription of the assembly of the Qur'an to Mohammed's Companions was the deliberate exclusion of the Prophet.

Part I. The Qur'an and the Islamic Legal Sciences:
1. Introduction;
2. The Islamic legal sciences;
3. The sub-science of naskh;
4. The background to the emergence of the third mode of naskh;
5. The mushaf: an incomplete record of the Qur'an;
Part II. The History of the Collection of the Qur'an Texts:
6. The first collection;
7. The 'Uthman collection;
8. The Qur'an collection:a review;
9. The isnad of the Qur'an;
10. General conclusions; Works cited; Notes; Indices.