About this course
Explore the questions that frame the study of the Quran: its language and names, how its text is divided, and how revelation is understood. The course examines gradual revelation, the occasions of revelation, and the distinction between Meccan and Medinan verses.
Later lessons address compilation and preservation, distortion, abrogation, and definite and indefinite verses. The course concludes by introducing tafsir, considering why interpretation is needed and surveying different approaches to reading and explaining the Quran.
What you’ll explore
- The Quran’s language, names and textual divisions
- Revelation, its occasions and gradual delivery
- Meccan and Medinan verses
- Compilation, preservation and questions of distortion
- Abrogation and definite and indefinite verses
- The purpose and approaches of tafsir
Curriculum
- 01Print-Ready Course Notes
- 02Why Quranic Studies?
- 03The Language of the Quran
- 04The Etymology of "Quran"
- 05Five Known Names of the Quran
- 06Divisions of the Text
- 07Verses of Prostration
- 08Quranic Revelation
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- 09How was the Quran Revealed?
- 10Benefits of Gradual Revelation
- 11The Significance of Occasions of Revelation
- 12Meccan and Medinan Verses
- 13The Compilation and Preservation of the Quran
- 14The Absence of Distortion (Tahrif)
- 15Abrogation in the Quran (Naskh)
- 16Definite and Indefinite Verses
- 17What is Tafsir?
- 18Does the Quran Need Tafsir?
- 19Different Approaches to Tafsir
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