One and the Many

A revelatory account of early Islam's great diversity by the world's leading scholar of early Qur'anic manuscripts"e;There is no one better placed than Francois Deroche to write the history-and tell the story-of how the Quran went from words uttered by Muhammad to inviolable canonical scripture. This is a meticulous, lucid, and fascinating book."e;-Shawkat Toorawa, Yale University According to M...