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: -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-3: -Islamic and Arabic scholars say the spelling Qur’an is preferred, but in much of the non-Arabic, Western press, the name of the scripture is more commonly spelled Koran. (The Sun uses Quran in its news stories.)