Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Abbreviations and Conventions xiii
5. Principal Biblical and Post-Biblical Characters in the Qurʾān xvii
6. Introduction 1
7. Qurʾān Texts and Commentary
8. 1. al-Fātiḥa, The Opening 29
9. 2. al-Baqara, The Heifer 31
10. 3. Āl ʿImrān, The Family of ʿImrān 109
11. 4. al-Nisāʾ, The Women 152
12. 5. al-Māʾida, The Table 188
13. 6. al-Anʿām, The Cattle 220
14. 7. al-Aʿrāf, The Elevations 250
15. 8. al-Anfāl, The Spoils 292
16. 9. al-Tawba, Repentance 303
17. 10. Yūnus, Jonah 326
18. 11. Hūd, Hūd 343
19. 12. Yūsuf, Joseph 361
20. 13. al-Raʿd, Thunder 387
21. 14. Ibrāhīm, Abraham 395
22. 15. al-Ḥijr, The Rock 404
23. 16. al-Naḥl, The Bees 414
24. 17. al-Isrāʾ, The Night Journey 432
25. 18. al-Kahf, The Cave 450
26. 19. Maryam, Mary 473
27. 20. Ṭā Hā, Ṭā Hā 487
28. 21. al-Anbiyāʾ, The Prophets 505
29. 22. al-Ḥajj, The Pilgrimage 523
30. 23. al-Muʾminūn, The Faithful 535
31. 24. al-Nūr, Light 546
32. 25. al-Furqān, The Criterion 557
33. 26. al-Shuʿarāʾ , Poets 566
34. 27. al-Naml, Ants 582
35. 28. al-Qaṣaṣ, The Stories 595
36. 29. al-ʿAnkabūt, The Spider 612
37. 30. al-Rūm, The Byzantines 622
38. 31. Luqmān, Luqman 630
39. 32. al-Sajda, The Prostration 636
40. 33. al-Aḥzāb, The Confederates 641
41. 34. Sabaʾ, Sheba 652
42. 35. Fāṭir, The Originato r 661
43. 36. Yā Sīn, Yā Sīn 668
44. 37. al-Ṣāff āt, The Ranged Ones 675
45. 38. Ṣād, Ṣād 688
46. 39. al-Zumar, Throngs 698
47. 40. Ghāfir, The Forgiver 708
48. 41. Fuṣṣilat, Elaborated 719
49. 42. al-Shūrā, The Counsel 726
50. 43. al-Zukhruf, Ornaments 733
51. 44. al-Dukhān, Smoke 742
52. 45. al-Jāthiya, Kneeling 746
53. 46. al-Aḥqāf, The Sand Hills 751
54. 47. Muḥammad, Muhammad 757
55. 48. al-Fatḥ, The Conquest 762
56. 49. al-Ḥujurāt, The Chambers 768
57. 50. Qāf, Qāf 772
58. 51. al-Dhāriyāt, The Scatt erers 776
59. 52. al-Ṭūr, The Mount 781
60. 53. al-Najm, The Star 785
61. 54. al-Qamar, The Moo n 791
62. 55. al-Raḥmān, The All-beneficent 796
63. 56. al-Wāqiʿa, The Imminent 801
64. 57. al-Ḥadīd, Iron 806
65. 58. al-Mujādila, The Pleader 813
66. 59. al-Ḥashr, The Banishment 818
67. 60. al-Mumtaḥana, The Woman Tested 822
68. 61. al-Ṣaff , Ranks 825
69. 62. al-Jumuʿa, The Day of Congregation 828
70. 63. al-Munāfiqūn, The Hypoc rites 831
71. 64. al-Tagh ābun, Dispossession 833
72. 65. al-Ṭalāq, Divorce 836
73. 66. al-Taḥrīm, The Forbidding 839
74. 67. al-Mulk, Sovereignty 843
75. 68. al-Qalam, The Pen 847
76. 69. al-Ḥāqqa, The Besieger 851
77. 70. al-Maʿārij, Lofty Stations 855
78. 71. Nūḥ, Noah 858
79. 72. al-Jinn, The Jinn 862
80. 73. al-Muzzammil, Enwrapp ed 866
81. 74. al-Muddaththir, Shrouded 868
82. 75. al-Qiyāma, Resurrect ion 872
83. 76. al-Insān, The Person 874
84. 77. al-Mursalāt, The Emissaries 877
85. 78. al-Nabaʾ, The Tiding 880
86. 79. al-Nāziʿāt, The Wresters 882
87. 80. ʿAbasa, He Frowned 886
88. 81. al-Takwīr, The Winding Up 888
89. 82. al-Infiṭār, The Rending 891
90. 83. al-Muṭaff ifīn, The Defrauders 893
91. 84. al-Inshiqāq, The Splitting 897
92. 85. al-Burūj, The Constellations 899
93. 86. al-Ṭāriq, The Nightly Visitor 901
94. 87. al-Aʿlā, The Most Exalted 903
95. 88. al-Ghāshiya, The Enveloper 904
96. 89. al-Fajr, The Dawn 906
97. 90. al-Balad, The Town 908
98. 91. al-Shams, The Sun 910
99. 92. al-Layl, The Night 911
100. 93. al-Ḍuḥā, Morning Brightness 913
101. 94. al-Sharḥ, Opening 915
102. 95. al-Tīn, The Fig 916
103. 96. al-ʿAlaq, The Clinging Mass 917
104. 97. al-Qadr, The Ordainment 919
105. 98. al-Bayy ina, The Proof 921
106. 99. al-Zalzala, The Quake 923
107. 100. al-ʿĀdiyāt, The Chargers 924
108. 101. al-Qāriʿa, The Catastrophe 925
109. 102. al-Takāthur, Rivalry 926
110. 103. al-ʿAṣr, Time 927
111. 104. al-Humaza, The Scandal-monger 928
112. 105. al-Fīl, The Elephant 929
113. 106. al-Quraysh, Quraysh 930
114. 107. al-Māʿūn, Aid 931
115. 108. al-Kawthar, Abundance 933
116. 109. al-Kāfirūn, The Faithless 934
117. 110. al-Naṣr, Help 935
118. 111. al-Masad, Palm Fiber 936
119. 112. al-Ikhlāṣ, Purity 937
120. 113. al-Falaq, Daybreak 938
121. A Note on Sources 941
122. A Note on Sources 947
123. Index to the Qurʾān 965
124. Index to Citations of Biblical Verses 993