Fourteen letters which appear twenty-nine times in seemingly meaningless arrangements in this text are called the "initials" or "isolated letters." Its repeated challenge to readers to produce merely ten chapters of a text like it is taken to be evidence for this book's inimitability. This text, which declares that there is "no compulsion in religion," can be read in a month by dividing it into thirty equally-apportioned (*) juz. An expunged, supposedly anti-monotheistic portion of this book that references three pagan goddess is known as the Satanic Verses. Over a period of twenty-three years in a mountain cave, this text was revealed through the angel Gabriel. For 10 points, name this holy book divided into chapters called surahs, the key religious text of Islam.
Fourteen letters which appear twenty-nine times in seemingly meaningless arrangements in this text are called the "initials" or "isolated letters." Its repeated challenge to readers to produce merely ten chapters of a text like it is taken to be evidence for this book's inimitability. This text, which declares that there is "no compulsion in religion," can be read in a month by dividing it into thirty equally-apportioned (*) juz. An expunged, supposedly anti-monotheistic portion of this book that references three pagan goddess is known as the Satanic Verses. Over a period of twenty-three years in a mountain cave, this text was revealed through the angel Gabriel. For 10 points, name this holy book divided into chapters called surahs, the key religious text of Islam.