The Qur'an

Arabic · Recited by Muhammad c. 610–632 AD; collected into its standard order shortly after.

Translation: J. M. Rodwell, 1861 — The Koran, translated by the Rev. J. M. Rodwell (1861; text of the 1876 2nd edition). Public domain.

Islam's scripture, six centuries after the New Testament. It takes up the same figures — Adam, Noah, Abraham, Lot, Joseph, Moses, David, Solomon, Jonah, Zechariah, Mary, Jesus — and retells their stories as warnings and signs, sometimes close to the biblical text, sometimes closer to Jewish and Christian legend (the Talmud, the Infancy Gospels), and on a few points deliberately parting ways: the Qur'an affirms Jesus's virgin birth and miracles and calls him Messiah, but denies that he was crucified (Sura 4:157) or is the Son of God.

Rodwell's 1861 translation is arranged in the roughly chronological order he reconstructed; here the 114 suras are restored to the standard canonical order. Verse divisions follow this edition.

This is a later scripture's engagement with the biblical material, not a source behind it — the direction of influence is the opposite of the older texts in this section.

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I II — THE COW✦III — THE FAMIL…IV — WOMEN✦V — THE TABLE✦VI — CATTLE VII — AL ARAF VIII — THE SPOI…IX — IMMUNITY X — JONAH, PEAC…XI — HOUD✦XII — JOSEPH, P…✦XIII — THUNDER XIV — ABRAHAM,…XV — HEDJR XVI — THE BEE XVII — THE NIGH…XVIII — THE CAVE XIX — MARY✦XX — TA. HA.✦XXI — THE PROPH…XXII — THE PILG…XXIII — THE BEL…XXIV — LIGHT XXV — AL FURKAN XXVI — THE POETS XXVII — THE ANT✦XXVIII — THE ST…✦XXIX — THE SPID…XXX — THE GREEKS XXXI — LOKMAN XXXII — ADORATI…XXXIII — THE CO…XXXIV — SABA XXXV — THE CREA…XXXVI — YA. SIN XXXVII — THE RA…✦XXXVIII — SAD XXXIX — THE TRO…XL — THE BELIEV…XLI — THE MADE…XLII — COUNSEL XLIII — ORNAMEN…XLIV — SMOKE XLV — THE KNEEL…XLVI — AL AHKAF XLVII — MUHAMMAD XLVIII — THE VI…XLIX — THE APAR…L — KAF LI — THE SCATTE…LII — THE MOUNT…LIII — THE STAR LIV — THE MOON LV — THE MERCIF…LVI — THE INEVI…LVII — IRON LVIII — SHE WHO…LIX — THE EMIGR…LX — SHE WHO IS…LXI — BATTLE AR…LXII — THE ASSE…LXIII — THE HYP…LXIV — MUTUAL D…LXV — DIVORCE LXVI — THE FORB…LXVII — THE KIN…LXVIII — THE PEN LXIX — THE INEV…LXX — THE STEPS…LXXI — NOAH LXXII — DJINN LXXIII — THE EN…LXXIV — THE ENW…LXXV — THE RESU…LXXVI — MAN LXXVII — THE SE…LXXVIII — THE N…LXXIX — THOSE W…LXXX — HE FROWN…LXXXI — THE FOL…LXXXII — THE CL…LXXXIII — THOSE…LXXXIV — THE SP…LXXXV — THE STA…LXXXVI — THE NI…LXXXVII — THE M…LXXXVIII — THE…LXXXIX — THE DA…XC — THE SOIL XCI — THE SUN XCII — THE NIGHT XCIII — THE BRI…XCIV — THE OPEN…XCV — THE FIG XCVI — THICK BL…XCVII — POWER XCVIII — CLEAR…XCIX — THE EART…C — THE CHARGERS CI — THE BLOW CII — DESIRE CIII — THE AFTE…CIV — THE BACKB…CV — THE ELEPHA…CVI — THE KOREI…CVII — RELIGION CVIII — THE ABU…CIX — UNBELIEVE…CX — HELP CXI — ABU LAHAB CXII — THE UNITY CXIII — THE DAY…CXIV — MEN