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As-Salām ʿalāykum all,
In the past few weeks, I’ve had quite a few people email/message/comment with Quran structures that they’ve found. Some were through their own observations, and others were research papers I had not seen before.
I have a list that helps me track which suwar I still need to research, and, al-ḥamdu lillāh, that list is getting shorter and shorter by the months. With that in mind, I wanted to reach out to my readers and ask if they knew of any structures in the suwar listed below? If a sūrah is not on the list, that’s because I have notes on it already, but haven’t had a chance to compile it into a post yet. The ones listed below are suwar I have absolutely nothing on yet.
It’s not because I don’t believe there are any structures in them, but because I haven’t spent the time researching them. If someone already knows of an existing paper on one of these, or has research of their own they’d like to submit, please don’t hesitate to reply to this email with anything you find, even if it’s a smaller structure within a larger sūrah. In my limited experience, the small discoveries slowly build up to the full thing eventually!
Here is the list of the 27 suwar I have not attempted yet. The number in front is its sūrah number:
6 - Al-An'am (The Cattle)
7 - Al-A'raf (The Elevated Places)
11 - Hud (Hud)
14 - Ibrahim (Abraham)
15 - Al-Hijr (The Rock)
16 - An-Nahl (The Bee)
21 - Al-Anbiya' (The Prophets)
22 - Al-Hajj (The Pilgrimage)
26 - Ash-Shu'ara' (The Poets)
29 - Al-'Ankabut (The Spider)
30 - Ar-Rum (The Romans)
34 - Al-Saba' (The Saba')
35 - Al-Fatir (The Originator)
39 - Az-Zumar (The Companies)
40 - Al-Mu'min (The Believer) also known as Ghafir (The Forgiver)
42 - Ash-Shura (Counsel)
43 - Az-Zukhruf (Gold)
44 - Ad-Dukhan (The Drought)
45 - Al-Jathiyah (The Kneeling)
46 - Al-Ahqaf (The Sandhills)
47 - Muhammad (Muhammad)
57 - Al-Hadid (Iron)
58 - Al-Mujadilah (The Pleading Woman)
59 - Al-Hashr (The Banishment)
60 - Al-Mumtahanah (The Woman who is Examined)
69 - Al-Haqqah (The Sure Truth)
72 - Al-Jinn (The Jinn)
Jazākum Allāhu khāyran and thank you to all that read these posts on a weekly basis. As of the last post, we’ve successfully posted on 51 different suwar! In shā’ Allāh, we’ll hit the halfway point of the Quran (57 suwar) before this blog becomes two years old in May :)
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