The Qur'an: A Biography: Audiobook
Book 2 of the Books That Changed the World series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Qur'an: A Biography runs 5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Michael Prichard (about 3.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 10 days |
| 1 hour / day | 5 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 4 days |
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What our data says
- At 5 hours, it is shorter than 56% of the 8,524 Counseling & Inspirational audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Books That Changed the World
This is book 2. Book 1 runs 5.5 hours before it; books 1 to 8 run 38 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | On the Wealth of Nations | 5.5 hrs |
| 2 | The Qur'an: A Biography | 5 hrs |
| 3 | Darwin's Origin of Species: A Biography | 4.5 hrs |
| 4 | Plato's Republic | 4.5 hrs |
| 5 | Clausewitz's On War: A Biography | 5.5 hrs |
| 6 | Thomas Paine's Rights of Man | 3.5 hrs |
| 7 | The Bible: A Biography | 6 hrs |
| 8 | Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography | 3.5 hrs |
More narrated by Michael Prichard
Michael Prichard narrates 174 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,947 hours in all.
- Rainbow Six
- Executive Orders
- Treasure Island, with eBook
- Clear and Present Danger
- The Cardinal of the Kremlin
About as long, on the Counseling & Inspirational shelf
1,334 Counseling & Inspirational audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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- Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts
- Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
- The Art of Living: Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now
- Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Qur'an: A Biography is book 2 of Bruce Lawrence's Books That Changed the World series: a 5-hour unabridged recording, read by Michael Prichard, released February 24, 2007, on the Counseling & Inspirational shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Michael Prichard
- Released
- February 24, 2007
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Counseling & Inspirational
- Series
- Books That Changed the World #2
- ISBN
- 9781400173877
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Qur'an: A Biography as an audiobook?
The Qur'an: A Biography runs 5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.3 hours.
Is The Qur'an: A Biography free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Qur'an: A Biography?
The Qur'an: A Biography is narrated by Michael Prichard.