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The Quran, The Origins Of The Book

The Quran, The Origins Of The Book

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 2009

Runtime

0h 52m

Genres

Documentary, History

User Score

100%

Original Title

Le Coran, Aux Origines Du Livre

Production Companies

13 Prods, ARTE

Director

Bruno Ulmer

Description

The Quran is the Holy Book of Islam, a religion shared by more than a billion followers worldwide. For the Muslim tradition, since its revelation to the Prophet Muhammad between the year 610 and 632 of the Christian era in Mecca and Medina, the Koran is immutable, and has remained maintained. However, recent discoveries of Koranic manuscripts analyzed by scientists, dated around the year 680 - the oldest known in the world - revealed that the Koran has a history. During the first century of Islam, and before the canonical version of the Caliph Uthman imposed itself, the holy book of Islam would have known competing versions, a different organization of the suras, variable readings due to a writing, in its beginnings, very rudimentary… It is to this meeting of knowledge, at the crossroads between the Muslim tradition and scientific research, that this journey to the origins of the Koran invites.