I'jaz, the Glossary
In Islam, ’i‘jāz (al-ʾiʿjāz) or inimitability of the Qur’ān is the doctrine which holds that the Qur’ān has a miraculous quality, both in content and in form, that no human speech can match.[1]
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64 relations: Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani, Abjad, Abu al-Atahiya, Al-Baqara, Al-Baqillani, Al-Isra', Al-Ma'arri, Al-Mutanabbi, Al-Qadi Abd al-Jabbar, Al-Tabari, Alfred Guillaume, Allegory, Angelika Neuwirth, Arabic poetry, Arthur John Arberry, At-Tur, Bashshar ibn Burd, Batiniyya, Embryology, Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, Fard, Francis Edward Peters, Friedrich Schwally, Henry Stubbe, History of Earth, Hud (surah), Human evolution, Hurufism, Ibn al-Muqaffa', Ibrahim al-Nazzam, Islam, Islamic attitudes towards science, Jahiliyyah, Jamiat Ihyaa Minhaaj al-Sunnah, John Wansbrough, Joseph Schacht, Kalam, Karen Armstrong, List of topics characterized as pseudoscience, Mahdi, Malise Ruthven, Maurice Bucaille, Metaphor, Miracle, Miracles of Muhammad, Monotheism, Mu'tazilism, Muhammad, Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i, Muhammad Mohar Ali, ... Expand index (14 more) »
- Islamic miracles
- Quran
Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani
Abū Bakr, ‘Abd al-Qāhir ibn ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Jurjānī (10091078 or 1081 AD); nicknamed "Al-Naḥawī" (the grammarian), he was a renowned Persian grammarian of the Arabic language, literary theorist of the Muslim Shafi'i, and a follower of al-Ash'ari.
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Abjad
An abjad (أبجد), also abgad, is a writing system in which only consonants are represented, leaving the vowel sounds to be inferred by the reader.
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Abu al-Atahiya
Abū al-ʻAtāhiyya (أبو العتاهية; 748–828), full name Abu Ishaq Isma'il ibn al-Qasim ibn Suwayd Al-Anzi (أبو إسحاق إسماعيل بن القاسمبن سويد العنزي), was among the principal Arab poets of the early Islamic era, a prolific muwallad poet of ascetics who ranked with Bashshār and Abū Nuwās, whom he met.
Al-Baqara
Al-Baqara, alternatively transliterated Al-Baqarah (الْبَقَرَة.,; "The Heifer" or "The Cow"), is the second and longest chapter (surah) of the Quran.
Al-Baqillani
Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ṭayyib al-Bāqillānī (أَبُو بَكْر مُحَمَّد بْن ٱلطَّيِّب ٱلْبَاقِلَّانِيّ; 950 – 5 June 1013), was a Sunni Muslim scholar and polymath who specialized in speculative theology, jurisprudence, logic, and hadith.
Al-Isra'
Al-Isra'ʾ (lit), also known as Banī Isrāʾīl (lit), is the 17th chapter (sūrah) of the Quran, with 111 verses (āyāt).
Al-Ma'arri
Abu al-Ala Ahmad ibn Abd Allah ibn Sulayman al-Tanukhi al-Ma'arri (December 973May 1057), also known by his Latin name Abulola Moarrensis; was an Arab philosopher, poet, and writer from Ma'arrat al-Nu'man, Syria.
Al-Mutanabbi
Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Mutanabbī al-Kindī (أبو الطيب أحمد بن الحسين المتنبّي الكندي; – 23 September 965 AD) from Kufa, Abbasid Caliphate, was a famous Abbasid-era Arabian poet at the court of the Hamdanid emir Sayf al-Dawla in Aleppo, and for whom he composed 300 folios of poetry.
Al-Qadi Abd al-Jabbar
Abu al-Hasan ʿAbd al-Jabbar ibn Ahmad ibn Khalil ibn ʿAbdallah al-Hamadani al-Asadabadi (935 CE – 1025 CE) was an Islamic jurist and hadith scholar who is remembered as the Qadi al-Qudat (Chief Magistrate) of the Buyid dynasty and the last great scholar of the Mu'tazilite school of Islamic theology, and a reported follower of the Shafi‘i school.
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Al-Tabari
Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr ibn Yazīd al-Ṭabarī (أَبُو جَعْفَر مُحَمَّد بْن جَرِير بْن يَزِيد ٱلطَّبَرِيّ; 839–923 CE / 224–310 AH), commonly known as al-Ṭabarī (ٱلطَّبَرِيّ), was a Sunni Muslim scholar, polymath, traditionalist, historian, exegete, jurist, and theologian from Amol, Tabaristan, present-day Iran.
Alfred Guillaume
Alfred Guillaume (8 November 1888 – 30 November 1965) was a British Christian Arabist, scholar of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament and Islam.
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Allegory
As a literary device or artistic form, an allegory is a narrative or visual representation in which a character, place, or event can be interpreted to represent a meaning with moral or political significance.
Angelika Neuwirth
Angelika Neuwirth (born 4 November 1943, Nienburg) is a German Islamic studies scholar and professor of Qur’anic studies at Freie University in Berlin.
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Arabic poetry
Arabic poetry (الشعر العربي ash-shi‘r al-‘arabīyy) is one of the earliest forms of Arabic literature.
Arthur John Arberry
Arthur John Arberry (12 May 1905, in Portsmouth – 2 October 1969, in Cambridge) FBA was a British scholar of Arabic literature, Persian studies, and Islamic studies.
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At-Tur
At-Tur (الطور.,; The Mount) is the 52nd chapter (sūrah) of the Quran with 49 verses (ayat).
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Bashshar ibn Burd
Abū Muʿādh Bashshār ibn Burd (أبو معاذ بشّار بن برد; 714–783), nicknamed al-Muraʿʿath (المرعّث, 'the wattled'), was a Persian poet of the late Umayyad and early Abbasid periods who wrote in Arabic.
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Batiniyya
Batiniyya (Bāṭiniyyah) refers to groups that distinguish between an outer, exoteric (zāhir) and an inner, esoteric (bāṭin) meaning in Islamic scriptures.
Embryology
Embryology (from Greek ἔμβρυον, embryon, "the unborn, embryo"; and -λογία, -logia) is the branch of animal biology that studies the prenatal development of gametes (sex cells), fertilization, and development of embryos and fetuses.
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (فخر الدين الرازي) or Fakhruddin Razi (فخر الدين رازی) (1149 or 1150 – 1209), often known by the sobriquet Sultan of the Theologians, was an influential Iranian and Muslim polymath, scientist and one of the pioneers of inductive logic.
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Fard
(فرض) or (فريضة) or fardh in Islam is a religious duty commanded by God.
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Francis Edward Peters
Francis Edward Peters, SJ (June 23, 1927 – April 30, 2020), was an American academic.
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Friedrich Schwally
Friedrich Zacharias Schwally (10 August 1863 – 5 February 1919) was a German Orientalist with professorships at Strasbourg, Gießen and Königsberg.
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Henry Stubbe
Henry Stubbe or Stubbes (1632–12 July, 1676) was an English royal physician, Latinist, historian, dissident, writer and scholar.
History of Earth
The history of Earth concerns the development of planet Earth from its formation to the present day.
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Hud (surah)
Hud (هود) is the 11th chapter (Surah) of the Quran and has 123 verses (ayat).
Human evolution
Human evolution is the evolutionary process within the history of primates that led to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid family that includes all the great apes.
Hurufism
Hurufism (حُرُوفِيَّة ḥurūfiyyah, Persian: حُروفیان horūfiyān) was a Sufi movement based on the mysticism of letters (ḥurūf), which originated in Astrabad and spread to areas of western Iran (Persia) and Anatolia in the late 14th and early 15th centuries.
Ibn al-Muqaffa'
Abū Muhammad ʿAbd Allāh Rūzbih ibn Dādūya (ابو محمد عبدالله روزبه ابن دادويه), born Rōzbih pūr-i Dādōē (روزبه پور دادویه), more commonly known as Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (ابن المقفع), was a Persian translator, philosopher, author and thinker who wrote in the Arabic language.
Ibrahim al-Nazzam
Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Sayyār ibn Hāni‘ an-Naẓẓām (أبو إسحاق إبراهيمبن سيار بن هانئ النظام) (c. 775 – c. 845) was an Arab Mu'tazilite theologian and poet.
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Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
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Islamic attitudes towards science
Muslim scholars have developed a spectrum of viewpoints on science within the context of Islam.
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Jahiliyyah
Jahiliyyah (جَاهِلِيَّة, "ignorance") is a polemical Islamic and Arabic term that refers to the period in Pre-Islamic Arabia before the advent of Islam in 609 CE. I'jaz and Jahiliyyah are Islamic terminology.
Jamiat Ihyaa Minhaaj al-Sunnah
Jamiat Ihyaa Minhaaj al-Sunnah (Movement of the Revival of the Prophet's Way) also JIMAS, is a Muslim charity in the United Kingdom.
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John Wansbrough
John Edward Wansbrough (February 19, 1928 – June 10, 2002) was an American historian of Islamic origins and Quranic studies and professor who taught at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), where he was vice chancellor from 1985 to 1992.
Joseph Schacht
Joseph Franz Schacht (15 March 1902 – 1 August 1969) was a British-German professor of Arabic and Islam at Columbia University in New York.
Kalam
Ilm al-kalam or ilm al-lahut, often shortened to kalam, is the scholastic, speculative, or philosophical study of Islamic theology (aqida). I'jaz and kalam are Islamic terminology.
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Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator of Irish Catholic descent known for her books on comparative religion.
List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
This is a list of topics that have, either currently or in the past, been characterized as pseudoscience by academics or researchers.
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Mahdi
The Mahdi (lit) is a figure in Islamic eschatology who is believed to appear at the End of Times to rid the world of evil and injustice. I'jaz and Mahdi are Islamic terminology.
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Malise Ruthven
Malise Walter Maitland Knox Hore-Ruthven (born 14 May 1942) is an Anglo-Irish academic and writer.
Maurice Bucaille
Maurice Bucaille (19 July 1920 – 17 February 1998) was a French doctor known primarily for his book The Bible, The Qur'an and Science.
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A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another.
Miracle
A miracle is an event that is inexplicable by natural or scientific lawsOne dictionary defines as: "A surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency." and accordingly gets attributed to some supernatural or praeternatural cause.
Miracles of Muhammad
Miracles of Muhammad are miraculous claims attributed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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Monotheism
Monotheism is the belief that one god is the only deity.
Mu'tazilism
Mu'tazilism (translit, singular translit) was an Islamic sect that appeared in early Islamic history and flourished in Basra and Baghdad.
Muhammad
Muhammad (570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam.
Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i
Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i (16 March 1903 – 15 November 1981) was an Iranian scholar, theorist, philosopher and one of the most prominent thinkers of modern Shia Islam.
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Muhammad Mohar Ali
Muhammad Mohar Ali (মোহাম্মদ মোহার আলী); 1929–2007) was a British Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, historian and barrister. He is the only Bengali to have received the King Faisal International Prize.
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Mujaddid
A mujaddid (مجدد), is an Islamic term for one who brings "renewal" (label) to the religion.
Musaylima
Musaylima (مُسَيْلِمَةُ), otherwise known as Musaylima ibn Ḥabīb (مسيلمه ابن حبيب) d.632, was a claimant of prophethood from the Banu Hanifa tribe.
Oliver Leaman
Oliver Leaman (born 1950) is an American professor of philosophy and Zantker Professor of Judaic studies at the University of Kentucky, where he has been teaching since 2000.
Prophet
In religion, a prophet or prophetess is an individual who is regarded as being in contact with a divine being and is said to speak on behalf of that being, serving as an intermediary with humanity by delivering messages or teachings from the supernatural source to other people.
Quran
The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah). I'jaz and Quran are Islamic terminology.
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Quran code
The term Quran code (also known as Code 19) refers to the claim that the Quranic text contains a hidden mathematically complex code. I'jaz and Quran code are Quran.
Resurrection
Resurrection or anastasis is the concept of coming back to life after death.
Sahih al-Bukhari
(translit) is the first hadith collection of the Six Books of Islam.
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Sharif al-Murtaza
Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā (أبو القاسمعلي بن الحسين الشريف المرتضى; 965 - 1044 AD; 355 - 436 AH), commonly known as Sharīf Murtaḍā or Sayyid Murtaḍā (Murtazā instead of Murtaḍā in non-Arab languages) and also popular as ʿAlam al-Hudā, was an Iraqi scholar and considered one of the greatest Shia scholars of his time.
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Shu'ubiyya
Shu'ubiyya (الشعوبية) was a literary-political movement which opposed the privileged status of Arabs within the Muslim community and the Arabization campaigns particularly by the Ummayads. I'jaz and Shu'ubiyya are Islamic terminology.
Theodor Nöldeke
Theodor Nöldeke (born 2 March 1836 – 25 December 1930) was a German orientalist and scholar, originally a student of Heinrich Ewald.
Western esotericism
Western esotericism, also known as esotericism, esoterism, and sometimes the Western mystery tradition, is a term scholars use to classify a wide range of loosely related ideas and movements that developed within Western society.
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Yunus (surah)
Yunus (يونس,; Arabic synonym of "Jonas" or "Jonah"), is the 10th chapter (surah) of the Quran with 109 verses (ayat).
Zahiri school
The Ẓāhirī school (translit) or Zahirism is a Sunnī school of Islamic jurisprudence founded in the 9th century by Dāwūd al-Ẓāhirī, a Muslim scholar, jurist, and theologian of the Islamic Golden Age.
See also
Islamic miracles
Quran
- Al-Jumu'ah
- Ali As-Suwaisy
- Ali and Islamic sciences
- Ali in the Quran
- Cairo edition
- Commission on Scientific Signs in the Quran and Sunnah
- Criticism of the Quran
- Dar Al Quran
- Disavowal of Polytheists in Hajj
- Fal-i Qur'an
- Flügel edition
- Hamra al-Asad
- Heavenly Quran
- History of the Quran
- Human rights in the Quran
- I'jaz
- Isra' and Mi'raj
- Justice in the Quran
- King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Quran
- List of legends in the Quran
- Mahad al-Zahra
- Makhdoom Lutufullah
- Mihna
- Miniature Quran
- Muhammad in the Quran
- Muqattaʿat
- Mushaf
- Mushaf of Ali
- Names and titles of Jesus in the Quran
- Quran
- Quran Belt
- Quran code
- Quran reciting
- Quranic createdness
- Quranic inerrancy
- Quranic studies
- Quranic timeline
- Quranism
- Revisionist school of Islamic studies
- Shah Ji
- Shia view of the Quran
- Tafsir
- Tanzil
- Tarkib
- Thawab
- Uthman's Quran
- Violence in the Quran
- Warsh
- World's Largest Handmade Quran in Afghanistan
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'jaz
Also known as Al-Mu'jizah, Challenge of the Quran, I'jaz Literature, I'jaz al-Qur'an, I'ǧāz, Ijaz, Ijaz Literature, Ijaz al Qur'an, Ijaz al-Koran, Inimitability of the Qur'an, I‘jāz, Mu'jizah, Qur'an’s inimitability, Quranic challenge, Tahaddi, Tahadi, Tahadi in the Quran, The challenge of the Quran.
, Mujaddid, Musaylima, Oliver Leaman, Prophet, Quran, Quran code, Resurrection, Sahih al-Bukhari, Sharif al-Murtaza, Shu'ubiyya, Theodor Nöldeke, Western esotericism, Yunus (surah), Zahiri school.