This first complete translation of Theodor Noeldeke’s The History of the Qur'an offers a foundational work of modern Qur'anic studies to the English-speaking public. Noeldeke’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 Qur'an.