TY  - BOOK
AU  - Khalif muhammad 
TI  - The sublime qur'an and orientalism
SN  - 0582780365 (hbk)
U1  - 297.1226 
PY  - 1983///
CY  - New York
PB  - Longman group limited
KW  - Sublime--Qur'an--Orientalism
N1  - Preface

Acknowledgements

PART I

Introduction The Qur'an and Its Names

Chapter 1

The Authorship of the Qur'an

The authorship of the Gospels

The authorship of the Pentateuch

Books held sacred by other religions

Orientalists' claims about the authorship of the Qur'an

Claims that the Prophet was a poet

Claims that the Qur'an resulted from his imagination

Claims that he was an epileptic

Claims that he composed the Qur'an helped by Jewish and Christian sources

Chapter 2

The Divine Composition of the Qur'an

The Qur'anic literary style

More Orientalists' comments on the Qur'anic style

Comments by modern Arab linguists

The frequency of occurrence of alphabetical letters Individual letters at the beginning of Surahs

The subject matter of the Qur'an

Conclusion

Chapter 3

First Writing of the Qur'an

The revelations came down in instalments

Early memorizing and writing of the Qur'an

Historical evidence

Chronological and textual orders
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