Blurb:

This chapter is devoted to the Quran, the base text in Islam, the one from which all else derives, in one way or another. After a general overview, it gives the traditional Muslim account of its origins, followed by a more critical approach, and then—like the previous two chapters—consolidates the two accounts. It then provides the general themes of the Quran, before showing how it functions in Muslim life and in the later commentary tradition that grew up around it.