The word · The Qur’an
المُناسَبَة
Munasabah
The study of how verses and surahs connect, and why they sit in the order they do.
Also written · Munasabat · Munasaba · Ilm al-Munasabat · Nazm · Nazm al-Quran · coherence of the Quran · surah coherence · connection between verses
The meaning
What Munasabah means in Islam
It asks why one verse follows another, and how a surah opens and closes on the same note. Al-Biqa'i's Nazm ad-Durar is the largest classical work built entirely on this idea. Some early scholars were cautious about it, since the arrangement is a matter of revelation rather than an author ordering his chapters.
Evidence · Editorial · Our own summary, drawn from the sources named
Read beside it
Words that sit beside it
- TafsirExplanation of the Qur'an: what a verse means, why it came, and what it asks of you.التَّفْسير
- SurahA chapter of the Qur'an; there are 114, arranged in the mushaf rather than by date of revelation.سورَة
- TadabburSlow reflection on the Qur'an, letting a verse work on you instead of passing over it.التَّدَبُّر
More from The Qur’an
- Al-Ahruf as-Sab'ahThe seven modes in which the Qur'an was revealed, an ease for the community; what a mode is stays disputed.الأَحْرُفُ السَّبْعَة
- Hafs an AsimThe reading found in most printed mushafs today, transmitted by Hafs from his teacher Asim of Kufa.حَفْصٌ عَنْ عاصِم
- Isti'adhahSaying I seek refuge with Allah from the accursed Shaytan before beginning to recite.الاسْتِعاذَة
- ManzilOne of seven divisions of the Qur'an, used by those who complete a full reading each week.مَنْزِل
- QariA reciter of the Qur'an; in the classical sense, one trained and certified in a particular reading.القارِئ
- TadwirThe middle speed of recitation, sitting between the slow tartil and the quick hadr.التَّدْوير