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Quran as miracle
Also known as inimitability of the Qur'an, I'jaz
thumb|250px|A page of the Quran,16th century: "They would never produce its like not though they backed one another" written at the center. In Islam, ’i‘jāz () or ’Mujiza’() is the Arabic word for miracle or inimitability challenge of the Quran, the doctrine which holds that the Quran has a miraculous quality, both in content and in form, that no human speech can match. According to this doctrine the Quran is a miracle and its inimitability is the proof granted to Muhammad (The Prophet of Islam) in authentication of his prophetic status. It serves the dual purpose of proving the authenticity
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10 sectionsContents
- History and sociology
- Quranic basis
- Study
- Classic works
- Scientific ''I'jaz'' Literature
- Muhammad's illiteracy
- Contrary views
- Imitators
- Critics
- References
thumb|250px|A page of the Quran,16th century: "They would never produce its like not though they backed one another" written at the center. In Islam, ’i‘jāz () or ’Mujiza’() is the Arabic word for miracle or inimitability challenge of the Quran, the doctrine which holds that the Quran has a miraculous quality, both in content and in form, that no human speech can match. According to this doctrine the Quran is a miracle and its inimitability is the proof granted to Muhammad (The Prophet of Islam) in authentication of his prophetic status. It serves the dual purpose of proving the authenticity of its divineness as being a source from the creator as well as proving the genuineness of Muhammad's (The Prophet of Islam) prophethood, an unlettered man who could neither read nor write, to whom it was revealed.
==History and sociology== The concept of “I'jaz” (lit; challenging) existed in preislamic Arabic poetry as a tradition in the sense of challenging one's rivals and rendering them incapable of creating a similar one, and a large part of the Quran was in the "nature of poetry".