The word · The Qur’an
عُلومُ القُرْآن
Ulum al-Qur'an
The family of disciplines that study how the Qur'an was revealed, collected, recited, read and interpreted.
Also written · Uloom al-Quran · Ulum ul Quran · Ulumul Quran · Uloom ul Quran · Quranic sciences · sciences of the Quran · Ilm al-Quran · Ulum al Kitab
The meaning
What Ulum al-Qur'an means in Islam
It covers revelation and its occasions, Makkan and Madinan passages, the canonical readings, abrogation, the clear and the ambiguous, and the rules of interpretation. It is the map you are meant to have before opening a work of tafsir. The two classic reference works are al-Zarkashi's al-Burhan and al-Suyuti's al-Itqan.
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
- Asbab an-NuzulThe event or question a particular verse was revealed in answer to.أَسْبابُ النُّزول
- Nasikh and MansukhAbrogation: a later ruling replacing an earlier one, the abrogating verse and the abrogated verse.النّاسِخُ وَالمَنْسوخ
- Qira'atThe canonical ways of reciting the Qur'an, each carried by chain from the Prophet through a named reader.القِراءات
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
- HifzMemorising the Qur'an by heart, traditionally with a teacher who hears you every day.الحِفْظ
- IzharPronouncing a nun sakinah or tanwin clearly, with no nasal hum, before one of six throat letters.الإِظْهار
- MufassalThe last stretch of the Qur'an, from about Surah Qaf to the end, made up of shorter surahs.المُفَصَّل
- Qur'anThe speech of Allah revealed to Muhammad in Arabic over about twenty three years, preserved word for word.القُرْآن
- TadwirThe middle speed of recitation, sitting between the slow tartil and the quick hadr.التَّدْوير