دعاوى المستشرقين بوجود الأخطاء النحويّة في بعض الآيات القرآنية وردودها: دراسة نقديّة

A Rebuttal on the Orientalists Claim of Grammatical Errors in Some Verses of the Qurʾān

Authors

  • Mohammad Nurul Islam Professor, Department of Arabic, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh
  • Mohammad Yousuf Professor, Department of Arabic, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31436/alburhn.v5i2.208

Keywords:

al-Qurʾān, Orientalism, Quranic studies, Grammatical errors, Refuting the orientalists

Abstract

Some western grammarians claim that several verses of the Holy Qurʾān are written in violation of the grammatical rules of the Arabic language. Allah SWT challenges the Arabs who were fluent in their language to produce the like of the Qurʾān, and they failed. This paper adopts the methods of literature critiques, emphasizing descriptive, historical, analytical, and comparative, dialectic methods to explore the base of suspicion of the oriental scholars. The paper argues that the claims of these orientalists are very false which prove they are not deeply concerned about the high definition of the Qurʾanic language. In this paper we analysed the Qurʾanic verses which they claimed to have violated grammatical rules

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Author Biography

Mohammad Yousuf, Professor, Department of Arabic, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Professor,Department of Arabic, Dhaka University

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Published

2021-08-30

How to Cite

Mohammad Nurul Islam, and Mohammad Yousuf. 2021. “دعاوى المستشرقين بوجود الأخطاء النحويّة في بعض الآيات القرآنية وردودها: دراسة نقديّة: A Rebuttal on the Orientalists Claim of Grammatical Errors in Some Verses of the Qurʾān”. AL-BURHĀN: JOURNAL OF QURʾĀN AND SUNNAH STUDIES 5 (2). Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.:84-104. https://doi.org/10.31436/alburhn.v5i2.208.

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