Quran
Islam's holy book
The Quran is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be the word of God as revealed to the Prophet Muhammad.
Also spelled Koran.
The text is written in Arabic and divided into 114 chapters called suras.
She reads the Quran daily.
Recitation of the Quran is central to Islamic worship and practice.
Colonial-era Indian nursemaid
revelation · Meccan · bismillah · passage · opening · arrangement · division · sequence
Adherent of Islam
- AllahArabic name for God
- mosqueIslamic house of worship
- imamMuslim religious guide
- SunnahIslamic model of conduct
Muhammad · Hadith · Sharia · Salah · Zakat · Ramadan · Eid · Hajj
Complete Quran memorizer
- memorizationCommitting information to recall
- melodyPleasing sequence of notes
- intonationPitch variation in speech
- cadenceRhythmic pulse or pattern
pronunciation · articulation · rhythm · voice · chant · resonance · juz
Advice for decisions
- faithTrust without proof
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
- prayerAddress to deity
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
soul · piety · enlightenment · mercy · compassion · righteousness · forgiveness · salvation
Dedicated to the divine
- divineOf or from gods
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- scriptureSacred religious writings
- blessedReceiving divine favor
sanctified · revered · venerated · preserved · miraculous · eternal · inimitable · protected
Critical textual interpretation
- translationConverting between languages
- commentaryExplanatory remarks on events
- scholarLearned, studious person
- jurisprudencePhilosophy governing legal systems
meaning · context · doctrine · theology · hermeneutics · Arabic · transliteration
ayah
Colonial-era Indian nursemaid
juz · revelation · Meccan · bismillah · passage · opening · arrangement · division · sequence
Muslim
Adherent of Islam
Muhammad · Sunnah · Hadith · Sharia · Salah · Zakat · Ramadan · Eid · Hajj · Makkah
hafiz
Complete Quran memorizer
- memorizationCommitting information to recall
- melodyPleasing sequence of notes
- intonationPitch variation in speech
cadence · pronunciation · articulation · rhythm · voice · chant · resonance · juz
guidance
Advice for decisions
devotion · soul · piety · enlightenment · mercy · compassion · righteousness · forgiveness · salvation · remembrance
holy
Dedicated to the divine
- divineOf or from gods
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- scriptureSacred religious writings
blessed · sanctified · revered · venerated · preserved · miraculous · eternal · inimitable · protected · unchanged
exegesis
Critical textual interpretation
- translationConverting between languages
- commentaryExplanatory remarks on events
- scholarLearned, studious person
jurisprudence · meaning · context · doctrine · theology · hermeneutics · Arabic · transliteration
- IslamAllah, Muhammad, Mecca, Ramadan, hajj
- Islamic historycaliphates, Umayyad Caliphate, Fatimid Caliphate, caliphate, caliph
- Islamic Studieshadith, Islamic law, Sunnah, madrasa, tawhid
- Islamic TermsAllah, Islam, Muhammad, surah, ayah
- Islamic Worldmosque, Allah, Muhammad, Mecca, Ramadan
- Arabic WordsAllah, Islam, Muslim, inshallah, hijab
QuranBible
Christian sacred writings
Torah · Gospel · New Testament · Old Testament · Tanakh
Formal research documentation
empirical evidence · reason · The God Delusion · secular humanism
Quranapocrypha
Works of doubtful authenticity
pseudepigrapha · hadith · ijma
- Holy QuranIslam's central religious text
- Quran recitationOral delivery of Islamic scripture