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by KorematsuFred 2390 days ago
Depends on how you define inception. Muhammad himself was illiterate so the job of writing down came to his followers. Many of them wrote on parchments which were kept in random order. Over years people added more parchments to the pile. Soon there were several hundred versions of koran. I think Muhammad's third generate Khalif managed to create one "authentic" koran and burned all other versions.