Early Enlightenment scholars found only three Qur’anic texts genuinely borrowed from Scripture

Evidence

Ehrhart ridiculed this: scarcely three texts can reasonably be said to have been borrowed, he asserted, although all expressions of the love or praise of God must inevitably be much alike. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1692

Categorization

• QUESTION: Modern quranic studies has revived the question of scriptural borrowing — how does Ehrhart’s count of ‘scarcely three texts’ compare against current scholarship on the Qur’an’s relationship to earlier literature?
• SHARE: For a scholar of comparative scriptures or quranic studies — this early 18th-century pushback against the ‘borrowing thesis’ anticipates the modern critical field.