engths. "Islamic law prohibits the touching of the physical Arabic Qur'an (and formal, but not casual, recitation) unless the person he is in a state of purity which corresponds to the greater of Ablution... it is a priest group Chin that every Moslem must commit at least 12 vs. or lines of the Qur'an to memory."2 The revelations are identified has having been revealed either in Mecca or Medina. Generally, those revealed in Mecca are the earlier ones and are more poetic and deal with apocalyptic themes. The Medina revelations deal more with the law of Allah. Many have noted that the arrangement of the Qur'an is not chronological or thematic. The subjects tend to be disjointed and shifting. This is due in part to the directions of Mohammad to put certain savings in different places in the Surahs. Muslims are aware of this and considered as to be the divine order in the Koran. ____________________1. Watt, W. Montgomery, Islamic Surveys: Bell's Introduction to the Qur'an, Aldine Publishing Company, Chicago, 1970, page 40.2. (Glasse, Cyril, The Concise Encyclopedia of Islam, Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. San Francisco, 1989. p. 220) ...
