Miracle as Viewed by Islamic and Jewish Theologians

The holy Quran and the Old Testament have reported the occurrence of miracles concordant with the appearance of the prophets. A lot of experts in both religions have attempted to explain how this phenomenon occurred and how it is related to the system of the natural world. Some have considered miracle as the breach of the laws of nature by God while some others have interpreted it as the predominance of one law over another. Some theologians who have been sympathetic to mystic ideas have considered miracle as an internal experience by those claiming to have brought it including prophets and non-prophets, whereas some who have been affected by the recent scientific developments in the western world have identified it with normal events. The present article intends to present and discuss the views of one jewish scholar, Ibn Maymoon, and one Muslim scholar, Allameh Tababtabi, on the assumption that the views expressed by these two scholars on this issue are more valid ones.