Quran

Why it’s on the list: The central religious text of Islam, held by Muslims to be the revealed word of God, delivered over roughly twenty-two years and arranged in 114 suras. A primary source I have not read, on a tradition I engage with mostly second-hand.

Where I heard about it

• Soliman — put it forward (his tweet) in Thread of Classics, a crowd-sourced Twitter thread pairing classic texts with the people recommending them, May 2020.

About this edition

Recited before it was written; the sound of the Arabic is inseparable from the text for most readers. The page count reflects the Abdel Haleem translation (Oxford World’s Classics); editions and translations vary widely.

Connections

• Thread of Classics — the reading list it came from