PRESENTED AS A QURAN With SOME VERY INTERESTING PROVENANCE W...

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PRESENTED AS A QURAN With SOME VERY INTERESTING PROVENANCE WHICH STATES THE QURAN WAS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN TAKEN IN THE ASSUALT ON FORT BARAN BY A BRITISH PEACE-KEEPING FORCE,WHEN THE SUDAN WAS UNDER EFFECTIVE BRITISH RULE IN THE EARLY 20th CENTURY. (Please Note This Lot WILL NOT BE PACKED OR SHIPPED...PICK UP ONLY !!!!)

(Qurʾān, (Arabic: “Recitation”) also spelled Quran and Koran, the sacred scripture of Islam. According to conventional Islamic belief, the Qurʾān was revealed by the angel Gabriel to the Prophet Muhammad in the West Arabian towns Mecca and Medina beginning in 610 and ending with Muhammad’s death in 632 CE. The word qurʾān, which occurs already within the Islamic scripture itself , is derived from the verb qaraʾa—“to read,” “to recite”—but there is probably also some connection with the Syriac qeryānā, “reading,” used for the recitation of scriptural readings during church services. The Qurʾānic corpus, composed in an early form of Classical Arabic, is traditionally believed to be a literal transcript of God’s speech and to constitute the earthly reproduction of an uncreated and eternal heavenly original, according to the general view referred to in the Qurʾān itself as “the well-preserved tablet” (al-lawḥ al-mahfūẓ; Qurʾān )