GRAND PRIZE FOR THE BEST BOOK 2020 FROM THE ARAB WORLD INSTITUTE
 
 A world first, this learned and accessible monument, which brings together thirty international specialists, offers, in three thousand pages, a complete and critical synthesis of past work and present research on the origins of the Koran, its formation and appearance, its composition and its canonization: twenty exhaustive studies on the context introduce here to the detailed analysis of the text, the archaeological and epigraphic elements, the geographical and linguistic environments, the ethnological and political facts, the religious parallels illuminating, verse after verse, in a total commentary the one hundred and fourteen suras from the founding book of Islam.
 
 An unprecedented adventure of the mind.
 
 An unprecedented amount in history.
 
 A major contribution to science.
 
 A decisive step forward for the mutual understanding of cultures.