Why the Qurʾān is a recital before it is a book, and why that matters for a people who had no book at all. The cave on the mountain of light and the first word, iqraʾ; the themes of the Meccan years; memorisation as the primary means of preservation; and the collection under Abū Bakr and the standardisation under ʿUthmān.

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:17 In the Name of Allah
2:59 A People With No Book
5:36 A Boy Born in Mecca
7:15 The Cave on the Mountain of Light
10:41 Read in the Name of Your Lord
12:12 Khadījah and Waraqah
14:35 The First to Believe
15:37 He Makes Us Look Stupid
17:08 Thrownness
19:49 The First Thirteen Years
21:39 If God Is Unknowable, How Is God Known?
23:24 The World That Comes After
25:26 Surrendering the Desire for Linearity
27:42 The Last Moment
29:26 A People Who Memorised
31:35 The One Who Preserves It
33:21 The Flight to Medina
36:14 The Battle of Yamāmah and the First Collection
37:56 Two Witnesses for Every Piece
39:42 The Standardisation Under ʿUthmān
41:54 Protected by Recitation, Not by the Page
44:05 What Exists Today
45:47 The Plural of the One Who Exalts Himself
47:33 The Leaves That Went Missing
48:14 Whether the Descriptions of Paradise Are Literal
49:49 The Deliberate Mistake
51:31 How Many Know the Entire Qurʾān
53:55 The Seven Variants

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