This first complete translation of Theodor Noldeke's The History of the Qurʾān offers a foundational work of modern Qurʾānic studies to the English-speaking public. Noldeke's original publication, as revised and expanded over nearly three quarters of a century by his scholarly successors, Friedrich Schwally, Gotthelf Bergstrasser and Otto Pretzl, remains an indispensable resource for any scholarly work on the text of the Qurʾān. Noldeke's segmentation of the surahs into three Meccan periods and a Medinan one has shaped all subsequent discussions of the...