Miraculousness of the Quran – A Historical Overview (Part 1)
What follows is the first of a series of posts going over the discussion on the miraculousness of the Qurān. I will…
Series: Miracle of the Quran
Miraculousness of the Quran – A Historical Overview (Part 2)
In this post, we will begin looking into six different approaches scholars have put forth to explain how the miraculous nature of…
Miraculousness of the Quran – A Historical Overview (Part 3)
Semantic – Philological Most Muslim scholars agree that the Qurān was not revealed in the Arabic language without any wisdom.[1] [26:193-195] This…
Miraculousness of the Quran – A Historical Overview (Part 4)
Intellectual-Rational In this approach, the criterion used to establish the miraculousness of the Qurān is intellectualization and reason. One of the things…
Miraculousness of the Quran – Doctrine of al-Sarfah – A Historical Overview (Part 5)
From the beginning of revelation up until the end of the 2nd century, the issue of i’jāz (miraculousness) of the Qurān was…
Miraculousness of the Quran – Doctrine of al-Sarfah – A Historical Overview (Part 6)
In our previous post, we went over a brief description of the doctrine of al-Ṣarfah. In this post, we want to see…