A Linguistic Approach to the Language of the Holy Quran

It is quite a long time since numerous researchers and writers have exercised their minds and tried their hands at analyzing and understanding the mystery and miracle of the Holy Quran. Researchers including interpreters, jurisprudents, theologians, and Hadith experts have all invested a lifetime asset of scientific and technical views in contemplating this divine miracle. The results of such critical approaches have been countless independent and authentic materials offered to the Muslim nations and the world alike. This paper employs a linguistic approach and looks into the structure of Quranic language. With the development of theoretical and applied linguistics, Arab scholars, too, have shown a growing critical interest in modern linguistic methods of inquiry. However, these attempts have mainly covered poetic and prosaic texts, and have overlooked Quranic language as a rich source of linguistic study. Thus, this paper treats the Quran as a text which could be linguistically analyzed.