MAJOR THEMES OF THE QUR’ĀN

by Fazlur Rahman, Professor of Islamic Thought
University of Chicago

Muslims and non-Muslims have written extensively on the Qur’ān. The
innumerable Muslim commentaries on the Holy Book often take the text verse by
verse and explain it. Quite apart from the fact that most of these project tendentious
points of view, at great length, by the very nature of their procedure they cannot yield
insight into the cohesive outlook on the universe and life which the Qur’ān
undoubtedly possesses. More recently, non-Muslims as well as Muslims have
produced topical arrangements of the Qur’ānic verses; although these can in varying
degree serve the scholar as a source or an index, they are of no help to the student
seeking to acquaint himself with what the Qur’ān has to say on God, man, or society.
It is therefore hoped that the present work will respond to the urgent need for an
introduction to major themes of the Qur’ān

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