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The original was posted on /r/academicquran by /u/bleh_bleh_bleh_157 on 2023-09-02 16:11:51.
So the Qur'an has many names, "Al-Furqan" "Al-Tanzil" "Az-Zikr"... but I wanna focus on "Al-Kitab" which means a book.
This intrigues me, because the Qur'an was never a book during Muhammad's life. For 23 years since Muhammad's ascension as a prophet, the main transmission of Qur'an was by oral (according to Islamic narrations). Allah revealed to Muhammad via Gabriel by oral, and Muhammad passed it on to Muslims also by oral, given that he was illiterate.
There were the companions who did know how to write, and so they wrote the verses on rocks, wood, date leaves and animal skins (I learned this from my theology book). And these writings weren't compiled into one single book, until the early Rashidun Caliphate, where Abu Bakr intend to fight the apostates, zakat-evaders and the false prophet cults, and during those battles, many huffaz were killed in the process.
So, I wonder how was it being called as "the book" ? Or maybe the word Kitab contains different meanings ?