Pascal Couchepin's reading: «The Koran of historians».»

Editions du Cerf has embarked on an ambitious and perilous adventure, publishing a three-volume set of over 900 pages each on Le Coran des Historiens. The ambition of the first volume is to provide an overview of research on the Koran, its historical, religious and literary environment, its writing, canonization and reception by what were to become the two main branches of Islam, the Sunnis and the Shiites. The other two volumes are devoted to a sura-by-sura exegesis of the text of the Koran.