Glossary

The vocabulary of the Qur'an — its words, its people, its places.

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  • Grouped, not alphabetical — belief, worship, character, prophets, places, sciences.
  • Cards show the term and one line of meaning; open one for the full sense and evidence.
  • For every person and place: why the Qur'an mentions them, and what we learn.

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Belief

What the Qur'an asks you to believe, and the words it uses to say it.

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Names of Allah

How Allah names Himself, and what each name changes in how you live.

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Worship

The acts of worship and the words that describe how they are done.

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Character

The states of the heart the Qur'an praises, warns of, and asks you to work on.

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The unseen

Angels, jinn, the soul — what is real but not seen.

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Hereafter

Death, resurrection, the reckoning and what follows it.

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Prophets

The twenty-five prophets named in the Qur'an, and why each is mentioned.

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Figures in the Qur'an

Other named or described people whose stories carry a lesson.

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Peoples and nations

Communities whose histories the Qur'an holds up as evidence.

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Places

The places the revelation names, and what happened there.

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Qur'anic sciences

The vocabulary scholars use to study the Qur'an itself.

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Seerah

Terms from the life of the Prophet ﷺ that the Qur'an is revealed alongside.

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Law and society

How the Qur'an orders wealth, family, justice and public life.

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Themes of the Qur'an

The great recurring themes the surahs return to, and where you meet them.

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Language and grammar

How Arabic carries meaning — roots, patterns and the turns of phrase the Qur'an uses.

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Recitation and tajwid

The rules that shape how the words are pronounced when the Qur'an is recited.

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Plain English

Heavy English words that come up constantly in translation — each in one plain sentence.

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