The Qur'an has become one of the most ideologically influential texts in the world, but what does it actually say?
This programme asks how a text that inspires peace and tolerance in the vast majority can allow a minority to find justification for violent conflict and terrorism.
Over a billion Muslims believe the Qur'an to be the word of God, revealed to the Prophet Muhammad nearly 1,500 years ago. Yet this one volume, often seen as a unified code for living, is quoted in support of a huge array of attitudes.
In some Islamic states girls are denied the right to an education, and women may not vote or drive - in others women lead political parties. While there are Muslim countries where executions by stoning, hanging and beheading are carried out in public, in others the death penalty has been abolished altogether.
This powerful film asks how - if the Qur'an is the ultimate and changeless message of God - such differences are possible.
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