Gateway to the Qur'anic Sciences

Scholars have sought to explain the sciences of the Qur'an for the correct understanding of revelation.

This discipline has come to be known as the 'sciences of the Qurʾān’, and includes many subjects, such as the nature and order of revelation, explanations of the types of expressions used in the revelation, and how the sacred text is to be correctly recited.

Imam Jalāl ad-Dīn as-Suyūṭī wrote one of the leading comprehensive manuals on ulum al Qu'ran entitled 'Al Itqan fi ulum al Qur'an. The text here translated is a summary by Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Arqahudān of many major topics covered in Itqan.