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Qurʾān Qurʾān Quʾrān manuscript Kūfic script. Double page opening of a Qurʾān from Syria, 9th century ad. In the collection of R. Pinder-Wilson. Early Kūfic book style, leaf from a Qurʾān, 8th or 9th century; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Kūfic script Old Ottoman naskhī script, opening of the Qurʾān, 1394; in the British Museum (MS. OR 4126).
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Arabic:
“Recitation”
Also spelled:
Quran and Koran
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Qurʾān, the sacred scripture of Islam. According to conventional Islamic belief, the Qurʾān was revealed by the angel Gabriel to the Prophet Muhammad in the West Arabian towns Mecca and Medina beginning in 610 and ending with Muhammad’s death in 632 ce. The word qurʾān, which occurs already within the Islamic scripture itself (e.g., 9:111 and 75:17–18), is derived from the verb qaraʾa—“to read,” “to recite”—but there is probably also some connection with the Syriac qeryānā, “reading,” used for the recitation of scriptural readings during church services. The Qurʾānic corpus, composed in an early form of Classical Arabic, is traditionally ...(100 of 3549 words)

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