The Quran and Its Sciences

Farid Dingle

What is the Quran? What is the Mushaf? How was it preserved? How has it been studied? How can you trust that the Quran is really the word of God?

At-A-Glance

• Cover material from classical texts of Ulum al-Quran (the Quranic sciences), tafsir (Quranic exegesis), and qira’at (Quranic recitation)
• Learn how the Quran was revealed
• Learn how the text and the pronunciation of the Quran was preserved
• Learn the history of the Quran and how you can trust what you read on a day-to-day basis

Course Syllabus

Module One:

• Revelation of the Quran
• This science and its work
• Revelation
• How the Quran was revealed
• When and Why verses were revealed
• Meccan and Medinan

Module Two:

• Preservation of the Quran
• Writing the Quran
• Revelation
• Tajweed and Canonical Recitations

Module Three:

• Understanding the Quran
• Tafsir
• Athari
• Linguistic
• Legal

Students are recommended to read:

Ulum al Qur’an by Ahmad von Denffer

The History of the Qur’anic Text from Revelation to Compilation: 

A Comparative Study with the Old and New Testaments by M M Azami