NY Times: Who Wrote the Koran?

An Iranian cleric, Abdulkarim Soroush, is sending shock waves through Muslim circles by questioning the divine origin of the Koran:

"[the prophet] was at the same time the receiver and the producer of the Koran or, if you will, the subject and the object of the revelation...when you read the Koran, you have to feel that a human being is speaking to you, i.e. the words, images, rules and regulations and the like all are coming from a human mind...This mind, of course, is special in the sense that it is imbued with divinity and inspired by God. "