The Quran has the distinction of being the one and only book dating back to ancient times about which everything is fully known and established, and whose authenticity comes up to all the standards of history.

Two of the books written in Greek in ancient Greece have retained their fame and popularity right down to the present day – the Iliad and the Odyssey, the former being the story of the siege of Troy by the Greeks, and the latter being the story of a heroic journey made by Ulysses. Of considerable literary importance, these books have been translated into several languages. What is unusual is that this literary heritage has been passed on from generation to generation without anyone being absolutely certain about their authorship. It is usually considered, for want of a better explanation, that the author of both books was Homer, who probably lived in the 8th century B.C. The Encyclopaedia Britannica informs us that “virtually nothing is known about the life of Homer” (Vol. V, p. 103).

Researchers have, of course, disputed this attribution. Samuel Butler (1835-1902), for instance, thought that the Odyssey had been written by a woman. It has been opined too that the Iliad had many authors and was edited in stages.

Most ancient books, are the subject of such literary disputes, for the information on them is so inadequate that no clear historical picture of them emerges.

The Quran has the distinction of being the one and only book dating back to ancient times about which everything is fully known and established, and whose authenticity comes up to all the standards of history. When the revelations of the Quran began to be made in 610, to whom were they made? To Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Abdul Muttalib. Where was he born and where did he die? He was born in Mecca in 571 and died in Medina in 632, what was the language of the Quran? Arabic. Who were its calligraphists? Abu Bakr ibn Qahafa, Umar ibn al Khattab, Usman ibn Affan, Ali ibn abi Talib, Zubair ibn al Awain, Zaid ibn Thabit, Amir ibn Fahira, Abu Ayyub Husain, Ubayy ibn Kaab, Muamya ibn abi Sufijan, Abdullah ibn Masood, etc.