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
- 01Why Quranic Studies?
- 02The Language of the Quran
- 03The Etymology of "Quran"
- 04Five Known Names of the Quran
- 05Divisions of the Text
- 06Verses of Prostration
- 07Quranic Revelation
- 08How was the Quran Revealed?
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- 09Benefits of Gradual Revelation
- 10The Significance of Occasions of Revelation
- 11Meccan and Medinan Verses
- 12The Compilation and Preservation of the Quran
- 13The Absence of Distortion (Tahrif)
- 14Abrogation in the Quran (Naskh)
- 15Definite and Indefinite Verses
- 16What is Tafsir?
- 17Does the Quran Need Tafsir?
- 18Different Approaches to Tafsir
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