THE KORAN

Penguin, London, 2003, 6^th pr. thus.  ISBN 0-140-44920-5.  Trade soft cover, 456 pages including Index.  Very good; light edge and cover wear; light reading creases on spine.  Interior clean and unmarked.  Revised translation with an introduction and notes by N. J. Dawood.  ‘The Koran is universally accepted by Muslims to be the infallible Word of God as first revealed to the Prophet Muhammad by the Angel Gabriel nearly fourteen hundred years ago.  Its 114 chapters, or surahs, recount the narratives central to Muslim belief, and together they form one of the world’s most influential prophetic works and a literary masterpiece in its own right.’ (from rear wrap)