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  2. Quran - Wikipedia

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    The Quran, [c] also romanized Qur'an or Koran, [d] is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allāh). It is organized in 114 chapters (surah, pl. suwer) which consist of individual verses (āyah). Besides its religious significance, it is widely regarded as the finest work in Arabic ...

  3. List of chapters in the Quran - Wikipedia

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    List of chapters in the Quran. Al-Fatiha, the first surah in the Quran. The Quran is divided into 114 surahs (chapters), and 6,236 ayahs (verses). Chapters are arranged broadly in descending order of length. For a preliminary discussion about the chronological order of chapters, see Surah. Each surah except the ninth (At-Tawba) is preceded by a ...

  4. Al-Anfal - Wikipedia

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    Al-Anfal[1] (Arabic: ٱلأنفال, al-ʾanfāl; meaning The Spoils of War, [2] Earnings, Savings, Profits) [3] is the eighth chapter (sūrah) of the Quran, with 75 verses (āyāt). Regarding the timing and contextual background of the revelation (asbāb al-nuzūl), it is a "Medinan surah", completed after the Battle of Badr.

  5. Criticism of the Quran - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The Quran is viewed to be the scriptural foundation of Islam and is believed by Muslims to have been sent down by God (Arabic: الله, romanized:Allah) and revealed to Muhammad by the angel Jabreel (Gabriel). The Quran has been subject to criticism both in the sense of being the subject of an interdisciplinary field of study where ...

  6. Mishari bin Rashid Alafasy - Wikipedia

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    Mishari bin Rashid Alafasy. Qari Mishary bin Rashid Alafasy (Arabic: مشاري بن راشد العفاسي) is a Kuwaiti qāriʾ (reciter of the Quran), imam, preacher, and nasheed artist. [1][2][3] He studied in the Islamic University of Madinah 's College of Qur'an, specializing in the ten qira'at and tafsir. [4] Alafasy has released ...

  7. Al-Baqara - Wikipedia

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    Left-side of a Double-page Opening of the Qur'an from Terengganu with beginning of the chapter Al-Baqara. End of the 18th or 19th century. Asian Civilisations Museum. Al-Baqarah (Arabic: الْبَقَرَة, ’al-baqarah; lit. "The Heifer" or "The Cow"), also spelled as Al-Baqara, is the second and longest chapter of the Quran. [1]

  8. The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary - Wikipedia

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    e. The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary is an English translation of the Qur'an by the British Indian Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872–1953) during the British Raj. It has become among the most widely known English translations of the Qur'an, due in part to its prodigious use of footnotes, and its distribution and subsidization by Saudi ...

  9. List of tafsir works - Wikipedia

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    Tafsir Ash-Sharawi by Muhammad Metwali Alsharawi (1911—1998), a famous Egyptian scholar. Al-tafsir al-waset by Muhammad Tantawy (28 October 1928 — 10 March 2010), Grand Imam of Al-Azhar. Fi Zilal al-Quran ('In the Shade of the Quran') by Sayyid Qutb (1906—1966) Muhammad Ali al-Sabuni completed: Sawfwat al-Tafasir.