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The Qur’an

coreattested610–632 CEIslam

Central religious text of Islam.

Influence92

Antiquity65

Wisdom88

Mystery84

✦Signature powerThe WordIts verses bind, guide, and outlive the hands that wrote them.

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Illustrated storyThe AdversaryThe most famous villain in the world was not born a villain, and was not born once. The Devil is a composite, assembled across a thousand years from a loyal prosecutor in God’s court, a taunt aimed at a Babylonian king, a garden snake, a refusing angel of fire, and a red dragon at the end of time. This is the biography of how the accuser became the enemy: Satan, Lucifer, Iblis, the serpent, the dragon, and what we built when we built him.Begin reading →