TY - BOOK ID - 134896636 TI - Revelation in the Qur'an : a semantic study of the roots n-z-l and w-h-y PY - 2021 SN - 9789004452978 9789004451056 PB - Leiden Brill DB - UniCat KW - Arabic language KW - Arabic language KW - Revelation KW - Noun KW - Verb KW - Islam UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134896636 AB - "In Revelation in the Qur'an Simon P. Loynes presents a semantic study of the Arabic roots n-z-l and w-ḥ-y in order to shed light on the modalities of revelation in the Qur'an. Through an exhaustive analysis of their occurrences in the Qur'an as well as pre-Islamic poetry, Loynes argues that the two roots represent distinct occurrences in the Qur'anic concept of revelation, with the former concerned with spatial events and the latter with communicative. This has significant consequences for understanding the Qur'an's unique concept of revelation and how this is both in concord and at variance with earlier revelations"-- ER -