Revelation & Scripture
The Quran's self-description and its relationship to earlier revelation. Asad's foreword stresses that the Quran must be read as 'one integral whole' where every verse bears on every other. Divine revelation is a continuous, organic process — the Quran confirms and completes what came before. Terms like 'kitab' mean 'divine writ', not merely 'book'.
3 topics375 verse referencesSpans 80 surahs
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The Quran's Nature & Style
333 versesHow the divine writ describes itself — its clarity, its literary forms, its challenge to produce anything like it
LiteracyAstronomyStyle ofPreachersPreachingPredestinationPredictionsConveyed clearly+21 more
The Act of Revelation
24 versesHow divine guidance reaches humanity — through prophets, across history
AbrogationDistort scriptureRevelation
Earlier Scriptures
18 versesThe Torah, Gospel, and Psalms as prior expressions of the same divine message
BibleGospelPsalmsTorah