Casanova's thesis that the Qur'an was altered after the Prophet's death

أطروحة تبديل القرآن بعد وفاة النبي عند كازانوفا

A thesis that Ghallab attributes to the orientalist Paul Casanova in his book “Muhammad and the End of the World”: that the Prophet ﷺ believed the Hour was near and so did not appoint a successor, and that Abu Bakr and then Uthman altered verses of the Qur'an to fit what followed ^{1 2}. Ghallab sets out the three arguments: the Qur'an's silence on the rules of political rule, the hadith of “between me and the Hour”, and the verses on death and resurrection together with the verses on certainty ^{3 4 5}. He replies that the Prophet's mission was religious, that the Qur'an enjoins consultation, that the hadith is a comparison of nearness and not a fixing of a time, and that the word certainty means death ^{6 7 8}. This is the book's reading, and some of its view may be attributed to Ghallab himself.