The question of orality versus writing preoccupied the Qur’an’s redactors, just as it had preoccupied the authors of the Jewish oral tradition. Initially, these redactors opposed writing ...

The spaced-out style of writing made it relatively easy to read, which was helpful for early converts to Islam wanting to read the Quran. In an era pre-printing press, the task of reproducing the ...

“Quran burnings must be stopped,” Justice ... the disorientation accompanying China’s modernization, sometimes writing of unthinkable things that later came true. A Warship Capsizes: North ...