ABSTRACT
All that which Allah revealed to Muhammad over a period of twenty-three years is written down in the Holy Book, the Qu‘ran. After his death these revelations were compiled and recorded from written annotations – on stone tablets, camels’ bones, on leather, parchment, papyrus – and from oral sources and combined in a definite codification about 650 A.D. Qu‘ran actually means “recitation”, and the 114 chapters (suras), subdivided into verses, are still recited in a slow, chanting manner.
