Fourteen letters which appear twenty-nine times in seemingly meaningless ar
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.