Re: First copy of the Qur’an
I so should be doing other things today, but this topic has be excited. Here’s another interpretation.
http://www.themodernreligion.com/basic/KNOW.htm#caliph
The essay basically says that the empire was expanding, and people of different cultures were reciting the Quran and they all had different accents. So the new Quran that uthman compiled had accent marks to standardize the Quran. The old copies were burnt, including the original compilation, because they didn’t want the trend of different pronunciations growing and being used all over the place - to avoid confusion, essentially.