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The Quran is an oral performance given by an unlettered man named Muhammad in the 7th century. Nearly all scholarship and Islamic thought agree upon that. But oddly, there has never been a manuscript length analysis on orality, literacy, and the entire Quran. Using observations from the anthropologies of living oral cultures, the cognitive sciences of literacy, and the study of other dead oral cultures, this project corrects this striking absence. The Quran first appeared in an environment with little to no formalized literature. We see nothing at all to suggest that Late Antique western Arabia in the early 7th century was creating, translating, or copying long, complicated writings, like books. The Quran is probably the first book (in our sense of the term) in the Arabic language. Therefore, the Quran reflects this gradual cultural shift of mind from more oral forms of thought to more literate forms. The earliest passages of the Quran speak with, to, and in the manner of a deeply oral culture. As the suras (roughly meaning "sections") of the Quran continued to manifest, ever more signs of literate thinking appear within its words. By the closing stages of the Quran's entrance into history, we can detect glimmers of the future manuscript culture of the classical Islamic world - which, of course, the Quran itself helped create. The thought systems of the Quran are oral, through and through, but by the end of the life of its Prophet, the Quran likewise hints at a personal and cultural embrace of writing and the mindsets of literate people. The Prophet's Whistle: Late Antique Orality, Literacy, and the Quran is a study on the ancient, non-literary features of the Quran, many of which often overlooked by historians and the public.

Qurʼan as literature --- Oral communication --- Orality in literature --- Literacy