Baqer Riahi Mehr
Abstract
Revelation is the "divine message to the prophets to guide the people". It is the basis and consistency of divine laws and the most valuable heavenly gem on the earth and has an inseparable connection with human nature and destiny. In recent centuries, with the spread of the wave of Islamic studies in ...
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Revelation is the "divine message to the prophets to guide the people". It is the basis and consistency of divine laws and the most valuable heavenly gem on the earth and has an inseparable connection with human nature and destiny. In recent centuries, with the spread of the wave of Islamic studies in the West, the hypothesis of adapting some of the contents of the Qur'an from past religious and literary texts became one of the fields of activity of Orientalists. Explaining this issue is necessary to prove the legitimacy of Islam and Quranic revelation and its superiority over all divine religions. The present dissertation is organized using descriptive and analytical methods and with a critical approach along with collecting and analyzing information to examine and criticize the most important claims and arguments of orientalists about borrowing the Qur'an from past religions and cultures such as Judaism and Christianity. Findings show that Western scholars and orientalists, based on these principles and considering the similarities in the Qur'an and earlier sources such as the Torah and the Bible, have proposed the existing hypotheses about the sources of the Qur'an, none of which are accepted by Muslims. Their claims have methodological problems even on their own merits.
