Medinan surah

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The Madni Surahs (Surah Madaniyah) or Madani chapters of the Quran are the latest 28 Surahs which, according to Islamic tradition, were revealed at Medina after Muhammad's hijrah from Mecca. The community was larger and more developed, in contrast to its minority position in Mecca. [1]

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The Medinan Surahs occur mostly at the beginning and in the middle of the Qur'an (but are said to be the last revealed surahs chronologically), and typically have more and longer ayat (verses). Due to the new circumstances of the early Muslim community in Medina, these surahs more often deal with details of moral principles, legislation, warfare (as in Surah 2, al-Baqara), and principles for constituting the community. They also refer more often to the community with "O people!" and at times directly address Muhammad or speak of him as "an agent acting in combination with the divine persona: 'God and his messenger' (Q 33:22)". [2]

The division of surahs into 'Meccan surahs' and 'Medinan surahs' is primarily a consequence of stylistic and thematic considerations, which Theodor Noldeke used to develop his famous chronology of the Qur'anic suras. Classification of the surahs into these periods is based upon factors such as the length of the verse and the presence or absence of certain key concepts or word (e.g. al-Rahman as name of God). [3] [2]

Characteristics of Medinan surahs

Following are some of the stylistic and subject characteristics of Medinan Surahs:

The Medinan phase

The Medinan phase lasted approximately 10 years. The phase began from Muhammad's hijrah to Madina; and ended with the death of Muhammad. While the themes of the Meccan surahs remain, the Muslims growing into more of a community and the formation of Ummah, now is clear. [6]

Chronological order of Medinan surahs

The order of the 28 surahs, is as follows:

2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 13, 22, 24,
33, 47, 48, 49, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61,
62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 76, 98, 99, 110. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ Vincent J. Cornell, Voices of Islam: Voices of tradition (2007), page 77
  2. 1 2 McAuliffe, Jane Dammen, "The Cambridge Companion to the Quran", Cambridge: 2006. p. 111.
  3. ↑ (in Reviews) Studien zur Komposition der mekkanischen Suren by Angelika Neuwirth, Review author[s]: A. Rippin, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 45, No. 1. (1982), pp. 149–150.
  4. ↑ Fiqh
  5. ↑ Sharia
  6. ↑ "Makkan and Madinan Revelations - QURAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA".
  7. ↑ (in Reviews) onereason AN IERA PROJECT: The Clear Quran - A Thematic English Translation, by Dr Mustafa Khattab'


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