Inimitability
in Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān Online
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An Arabic theological and literary term for the matchless nature of the qurʾānic discourse (Ar. iʿjāz al-Qurʾān). Although “inimitability” (iʿjāz) is not attested in the Qurʾān, it has a qurʾānic cognate, the fourth form verb aʿjazaaʿjaza ii, 526b hu, “he found him to be without strength, or power, or ability; it frustrated his power or ability” (cf. Lane); aʿjaza and various derived forms occur sixteen times in the Qurʾān.
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Inimitability
in Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān Online
Author:
Richard C. Martin
Richard C. Martin
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(6,371 words)