from a long time ago, religious scholars have been competing to best determine the very miracles of the holy quran. from among these scholars some have tended to its language, style and structure while some other have been absorbed by its scientific miracles. the present study is an attempt to analyze one of these miracles, i.e. miracle of sound. quran was first revealed unto muhammad (pbuh) in...

surah al-`adiyat is one of the controversial surahs as to whether it is a meccan or a medinan surah. if we determine the place of revelation, it can help us in better interpreting and understanding of surah. because of the oaths in the opening lines of this surah, some commentators believe that it concerns jihad which became obligatory in medina. there are also narratives that date the revelati...

stylistics is one of the branches of literary criticism benefiting from linguistics and rhetoric to analyze the text and emphasizes on three essential elements namely text, writer and addressee in literary and critical examination of the work. an’ã¢m (the cattles) surah is a the long surah of koran indicating mainly three columns of islamic ideology and all the vocabulary and artistic images ...

â â â  the study of al-rahman surah stylistics’ â â â  â  mohammad khaqani isfahani * â  maryam jalilian ** â  â  abstract â  â  stylistics as a modern method explores linguistic and stylistic phenomena since form or content by itself is not sufficient to attain the gist of the text. in stylistics, the quality of the connection of the two and their effect on leading to understand are worked o...

abstract determining whether a surah is makki or madani is an effective way to understand the surah and to choose the most desirable interpretative traditions. there are many surahs considered makki and a few ones considered madani. on the other hand, there is another group of surahs which their dating can be disputable. surah al-ra’d should be put in this group. by analyzing the traditions rel...

the careful selection and proper use of lexical elements is the distinguishing feature of the holy quran. these elements are classified as subsets of semiotics and each of them play their role within the context of a surah and topics that it covers. for example in luqman surah topics such as monotheism, polytheism, atheism, prayer and the day of resurrection are discussed by different methods s...