Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Calcutta Review, Vol. 19
We have before alluded to the evidence conveyed by the name Kitab. Other passages involve the existence of copies in common use thus The shall touch the same, excepting those who are clean (sura LVI. This is an early Meccan Sura, and the passage is referred to by Omar's sister, when he desired, before his conversion, to take her copy of Sara XX. Into his hands. Such pas sages are moreover evidence of the extreme care, if not awe, with which all transcripts of the Goran would be treated, and they served as an additional safeguard against corruption.
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