Nearly one billion people hold the Koran as the literal word of God; historians outside Islam often approach it as a foundational text that reshaped law, language, and empire. This program traces how the verses were assembled and transmitted, then follows their influence forward from the Golden Age of Islam, when scholars in Baghdad and Cordoba built on Koranic learning in science and philosophy, to the modern rise of jihadist movements that cite the same text for very different ends. Islamic scholars and religious leaders appear on camera to explain how the Koran is read, recited, and interpreted, and the film sets it side by side with the Bible, pointing out shared prophets and stories alongside real differences in structure and theology. Rather than settling disputes over meaning, the program lays out the range of interpretation itself, from centuries-old jurisprudence to present-day political appropriation, treating the text as something still actively contested 1,400 years after it was first recited.