| Table of Contents |
| | Preface and Acknowledgments | 13 |
| | Transliteration and Other Technical Matters | 17 |
| Pt. 1 | Introduction | |
| | 1 | Introduction / Ibn Warraq | 23 |
| | 2 | What Is the Koran? / Toby Lester | 107 |
| Pt. 2 | Background | |
| | 2 | Towards a Prehistory of Islam / Yehuda D. Nevo | 131 |
| Pt. 3 | A Question of Language | |
| | 1 | Syriac Influence on the Style of the Koran / Alphonse Mingana | 171 |
| | 2 | Some Additions to Prof. Jeffery's Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur'an / D. S. Margoliouth | 193 |
| | 3 | The Arabic Readers of the Koran / Paul E. Kahle | 201 |
| | 4 | The Beginnings of Classical Arabic / C. Rabin | 211 |
| | 5 | The Role of the Bedouins as Arbiters in Linguistic Questions and the Mas'ala Az-Zunburiyya / Joshua Blau | 228 |
| | 6 | Some Suggestions to Qur'an Translators / A. Ben-Shemesh | 238 |
| Pt. 4 | Sources of the Koran: Essenian, Christian, Coptic | |
| | 1 | Introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls / Ibn Warraq | 245 |
| | 2 | The Qumran Scrolls and the Qur'an / Eric R. Bishop | 251 |
| | 3 | An Essenian Tradition in the Koran / Marc Philonenko | 268 |
| | 4 | A Qumranian Expression in the Koran / Marc Philonenko | 283 |
| | 5 | A Possible Coptic Source of a Qur'anic Text / Wilson B. Bishai | 288 |
| | 6 | Introduction to Raimund Kobert / Ibn Warraq | 296 |
| | 7 | The Shahadat az-zur: The False Witness / Raimund Kobert | 301 |
| | 8 | On the Meaning of the Three Final Words of Sura XXII.30-31 / Raimund Kobert | 303 |
| | 9 | Early and Later Exegesis of the Koran: A Supplement to Or 35 / Raimund Kobert | 311 |
| Pt. 5 | Suras, Suras, Suras | |
| | 1 | Introduction to Sura IX.29 / Ibn Warraq | 319 |
| | 2 | Some Minor Problems in the Qur'an / Franz Rosenthal | 322 |
| | 3 | Koran IX.29 / Claude Cahen | 343 |
| | 4 | A Propos de Qur'an IX.29: Hatta Yu'tu L-Gizyata wa-hum Sagiruna / Meir M. Bravmann, Claude Cahen | 348 |
| | 5 | The Ancient Arab Background of the Koranic Concept al-Gizatu 'an Yadin / Meir M. Bravmann | 350 |
| | 6 | "'An Yadin" (Qur'an IX.29): An Attempt at Interpretation / M. J. Kister | 364 |
| | 7 | Koran and Tafsir: The Case of "an Yadin" / Uri Rubin | 372 |
| | 8 | Koran XXV.1: Al-Furqan and the "Warner" / C. Heger | 387 |
| | 9 | The Buddha Comes to China / Michael Schub | 391 |
| | 10 | The Secret Identity of Dhu l-Kifl / Michael Schub | 394 |
| Pt. 6 | Emendations, Interpolations | |
| | 1 | Studies Contributing to Criticism and Exegesis of the Koran / J. Barth | 399 |
| | 2 | A Qur'anic Interpolation / A. Fischer | 436 |
| | 3 | Regarding Qur'an CI.6 / A. Fischer | 462 |
| | 4 | Three Difficult Passages in the Koran / C. C. Torrey | 466 |
| | 5 | A Strange Reading in the Qur'an / C. C. Torrey | 481 |
| | 6 | Some Proposed Emendations to the Text of the Koran / James A. Bellamy | 488 |
| Pt. 7 | Richard Bell: Introduction and Commentary | |
| | 1 | Introduction to Richard Bell / Ibn Warraq | 517 |
| | 2 | From Introduction to the Qur'an / Richard Bell | 524 |
| | 3 | From A Commentary on the Qur'an / Richard Bell | 553 |
| Pt. 8 | Poetry and the Koran | |
| | 1 | The Strophic Structure of the Koran / Rudolf Geyer | 625 |
| | 2 | On the Koran / Julius Wellhausen | 647 |
| | 3 | On Pre-Islamic Christian Strophic Poetical Texts in the Koran: A Critical Look at the Work of Gunter Luling / Ibn Rawandi | 653 |
| Pt. 9 | Manuscripts | |
| | 1 | The Problem of Dating the Early Qur'ans / Adolf Grohmann | 713 |
| | 2 | Observations on Early Qur'an Manuscripts in San'a' / Gerd-R. Puin | 739 |
| | App. A: Abbreviations | 747 |
| App. B | Converting Flugel Koranic Verse Numbers into Standard Egyptian | 751 |
| | App. C: Glossary | 753 |
| App. D | The Genetic Relationship among Semitic Languages / Merritt Ruhlen | 763 |
| App. E | Semitic Languages Family Tree | 764 |
| App. F | Origin of the Alphabet / I. J. Gelb | 765 |
| App. G | Development of Aramaic Scripts | 766 |
| App. H | A Comparative Table of Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic Scripts | 768 |
| App. I | A Comparative Table of Nabataean and Arabic | 769 |
| App. J | Nabataean and Arabic Inscriptions | 770 |
| App. K | The Arabic Alphabet | 774 |
| App. L | A Dot or Two Can Make All the Difference | 775 |
| App. M | Arabia and the Near East | 776 |
| | App. N: List of Contributors | 777 |
