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Coherence In The Quran - Mustansir Mir

A widely held view about the Quran is that, in its received form, it lacks coherence. Not surprisingly, most approaches to the Quran have remained atomistic in characters. Also, some western scholars have tried to rearrange the Quran in order to make it more comprehensible . The contemporary scholar Amin Ahsan Islahi rejects the view that the Quran is disjointed. Developing the seminal ideas and insights of his teacher, Hamid ad-Din al-Farahi, he has argued in Tadabur-I-Quran, his multi-volume Quran commentary (Urdu), that the Quran possesses a nazm or coherence that is not only aesthetically pleasing but carries profound hermeneutical significance. Coherence in the Quran is the first detailed study of Islahi' s contribution to Quran exegesis. After putting a historical perspective on the idea of nazm in the Quran, it makes a critical examination of the major aspect of Islahi's theory of Quranic nazm, and tries to assess the significance of this new approach to the Quran. (From Amazon)

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