ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī

{{PROFILE-PENDING}} — This is a stub. Al-Jurjānī is featured in The Inimitability of the Qur'an (i'jaz) as Evidence for Islam as the developer of the naẓm theory of Qur'anic inimitability, but none of his works are ingested in our corpus. The profile below records only what the corpus and standard reference framing support; substantive claims about his linguistic theory are flagged for acquisition.

Background

ʿAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jurjānī (c. 1009–1078) was a Persian grammarian and literary theorist working in Jurjān (modern Gorgan, NE Iran), regarded as the most sophisticated classical theorist of Arabic rhetoric. His Dalāʾil al-iʿjāz and Asrār al-balāgha developed the doctrine of naẓm — that the Qur'an's inimitability resides not in isolated words or ornaments but in the precise, meaning-driven ordering of its syntax and construction — which became the standard account of iʿjāz al-Qurʾān in later Islamic scholarship.

Positions held in this wiki

• The Inimitability of the Qur'an (i'jaz) as Evidence for Islam — cited as the theorist whose naẓm-based account gave the inimitability doctrine its most rigorous linguistic articulation.

Key works in our corpus

Corpus gap: None of al-Jurjānī's works are ingested. His position is currently named but not sourced from primary text. {{UNSOURCED: al-Jurjānī, Dalāʾil al-iʿjāz and Asrār al-balāgha — acquire an open-access or public-domain edition/translation before attributing specific arguments}}

Principal critics

• John Medows Rodwell — the in-corpus nineteenth-century translator whose Preface dissents from the inimitability estimate of the received text.

See also

• Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī — the Ashʿarī theologian in whose framework the miracle grounds revelation's authority.
• Abū Bakr al-Bāqillānī — the earlier systematizer of the i'jaz doctrine.