"The mother of civilisation" : the printing press and illegal copies of the Quran -- Ottoman editions of the Quran (1870-1890) -- Vernacular commentaries and the new intellectuals -- Politicisations : Neo-Arabism, missionaries and the Young Turks (1908-1919) -- Translation and the nation -- Caliph and the Quran : English translations, Egypt and the search for a centre -- The elusive Turkish Quran -- An ubiquitous book.