"It is as though Muhammad had created an entirely new literary form…Without this experience of the Koran, it is

extremely unlikely that Islam would have taken root.”

This unique literary form was the cause of the dramatic intellectual revival of desert Arabs, and after thirteen

years of the first revelation, it became the only reference for a new state in Medina. This new form of speech, the

Qur’an, became the sole source of the new civilisation’s political, philosophical, and spiritual outlook.