This isn’t a book about the content of the Koran. Such a book would just be a book on Islam. This is a book about the Koran itself. How it is handled, how it is used, how it is printed, the process by which it is interpreted, what is and isn’t a Koran, and how it got to be what it is. What’s interesting is that the answer to these questions is very different to the same questions applied to the Bible or other religious texts. For example, nobody would say that the King James Bible isn’t a Bible, but a translation of the Koran isn’t a Koran. Very interesting indeed.