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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Why a tradition should be allowed to speak for itself before its practitioners are judged, and what the Qurʾān means by Islam: all creation in submission, the religion of Abraham and Isaac, the religion perfected in the Prophet Muhammad, and the surrender that is death. The hadith of Gabriel and the five pillars; the shahādah as witnessing; prayer as burning, connection and submission; and the five daily prayers read from sunset, dawn, and the shadow of a stick at the meridian.

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:17 Letting the Tradition Speak for Itself
3:28 The Debt of Submission
5:49 All of Creation Is in Submission
8:04 The Religion of Isaac and Abraham
12:47 He Gave Up the Ghost
15:17 An Unbroken Chain
18:52 Tell Me About Islam
22:39 What Prayer Means
26:28 The Muslim in the Normative Sense
29:14 Human Beings Are Asleep
33:13 Five Prayers in a Day
35:58 The Night and the Dawn
38:54 Watching the Gods Play Chess
41:31 The Stick and the Shadow
43:28 How Your Lord Moves the Shadow
46:51 The Seasons of a Life

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