A revelatory account of early Islam's great diversity by the world's leading scholar of early Qur'anic manuscripts "There is no one better placed than Fran?ois D?roche to write the history--and tell the story--of how the Quran went from words uttered by Muhammad to inviolable canonical scripture. This is a meticulous, lucid, and fascinating book."--Shawkat Toorawa, Yale University According to Muslim dogma, the recited...