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The '''Qur’ān''' '''القرآن''' ''al-ķur'ān'', literally "the recitation"; also sometimes [[Arabic transliteration|transliterated]] as '''Quran''', '''Koran''', or '''Al-Qur'an''') is the central [[religious text]] of [[Islam]]. Muslims believe the Qur'an to be the book of divine guidance and direction for mankind and consider the text in its original [[Arabic]] to be the literal word of [[God]],[http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/002.qmt.html] Qur'ān, Chapter 2, Verses 23-24 revealed to [[Muhammad]] over a period of twenty-three years ''Living Religions: An Encyclopaedia of the World's Faiths,'' Mary Pat Fisher, 1997, page 338, I.B. Tauris Publishers, [http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/017.qmt.html] Qur'an,Chapter 17,Verse 106 and view the Qur'an as God's final revelation to humanity. [http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/033.qmt.html] Qur'an, Chapter 33, Verse 40 Watton, Victor, (1993), ''A student's approach to world religions:Islam'', Hodder & Stoughton, pg 1. ISBN 0-340-58795-4
The '''Qur’ān''' '''القرآن''' ''al-ķur'ān'', literally "the recitation"; also sometimes [[Arabic transliteration|transliterated]] as '''Quran''', '''Koran''', or '''Al-Qur'an''') is the central [[religious text]] of [[Islam]]. Muslims believe the Qur'an to be the book of divine guidance and direction for mankind and consider the text in its original [[Arabic]] to be the literal word of [[God]],[http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/002.qmt.html] Qur'ān, Chapter 2, Verses 23-24 revealed to [[Muhammad]] over a period of twenty-three years ''Living Religions: An Encyclopaedia of the World's Faiths,'' Mary Pat Fisher, 1997, page 338, I.B. Tauris Publishers, [http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/017.qmt.html] Qur'an,Chapter 17,Verse 106 and view the Qur'an as God's final revelation to humanity. [http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/033.qmt.html] Qur'an, Chapter 33, Verse 40 Watton, Victor, (1993), ''A student's approach to world religions:Islam'', Hodder & Stoughton, pg 1. ISBN 0-340-58795-4
