WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Muslims believe that the Qur’an, the holy book of Islam, was revealed to Muhammad over a period of twenty-three years, starting with the initial revelation at Mount Hira. After the Prophet’s death, his successors compiled these divine revelations in a manuscript.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Quran is also known as al-furqan (that which differentiates between truth and falsehood), al-kitab (the book) and adh-dhikr (the remembrance). In formal speech the Quran is referred to as Quran majid, the glorious Quran.

Detailed explanation-3: -Qurʾān, (Arabic: “Recitation”) also spelled Quran and Koran, the sacred scripture of Islam. According to conventional Islamic belief, the Qurʾān was revealed by the angel Gabriel to the Prophet Muhammad in the West Arabian towns Mecca and Medina beginning in 610 and ending with Muhammad’s death in 632 ce.

Detailed explanation-4: -Regardless, it had become an Arabic term by Muhammad’s lifetime. An important meaning of the word is the ‘act of reciting’, as reflected in an early Quranic passage: “It is for Us to collect it and to recite it (qurʼānahu).” In other verses, the word refers to ‘an individual passage recited [by Muhammad]’.

Detailed explanation-5: -Umayyad Period (44/661–132/750) – Hijazi script The earliest known manuscripts of the Quran are collectively called the Hijazi script, and are mostly associated with the Umayyad period.