"It is likely that other Muslims did as Larten

and drew on their memories to fill the void left by their removal from their traditional sources of continuing education. During his stay in England, Job ben Solomon, to the general astonishment, wrote three identical copies of the Koran, each time without ever looking at the preceding version. [33] Job was in a much better position than Larten: he was given time, paper, and ink. But his accomplishment shows that Larten's feat was not an isolated case, the work of an exceptional man. Not all Muslims were capable of producing their own Koran, but as is the case today in West Africa, many could if they had the required raw materials.

-Sylviane A. Diouf, Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas, p. 117