Comparing Qurʾānic Suras with Pre-800 Documents

The dominant formal document type of preserved Arabic pre-800 documents shows a characteristic tripartite structure: in between the invocation and the long main part, there is a self-referring title , “The following is a writ from so-and-so to so-and-so.” The Suras of the Qurʾān have the same tripar...

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