ABSTRACT
A bitter struggle, political and theoretical, that has been rending the hearts and minds of Muslims for fourteen centuries has lost none of its fire even today. A singular fact about the Koran is that it is not a preconceived theoretical work. It is a book for action or, more exactly, it is a narrative of the acts and experiences of a specific group of men within a specific geographical setting at a specific moment of history. That experience unfolded with the aim of destroying the established order and replacing it with a new one, the Medina community. The prodigious Experience unfolded in an extraordinary ambience of creativity, combat, war, and action. The Koran is the record of this ambience. It should be noted that the Koran has established a number of principles concerning authority and power. Drawing on the Koran was reserved for carefully and laboriously spelled-out conditions.
