Part, Sura

 1  I          |      points to them in the later Sûrahs as irrefragable proofs of
 2  I          |        that even the individual. Sûrahs were, however, arranged
 3  I          |     various passages. The longer Sûrahs were placed at the beginning
 4  I          |       been inserted into various Sûrahs for no other reason than
 5  I          |    preceding one. The individual Sûrahs have prefixed to them the
 6  I          | chronological arrangement of the Sûrahs, has been the aim of scholars,
 7  I          |        of a Medînah Sûrah.~ ~The Sûrahs resolve themselves into
 8  I          |         the flight at Medînah.~ ~Sûrahs belonging to the first period
 9  I          |         One of the next earliest Sûrahs is that entitled Abu Laheb.
10  I          |    respectively.~ ~In the Meccan Sûrahs Mohammed's one and steady
11  I          |      second period of the Meccan Sûrahs, Mohammed appears to have
12  I          |         later chapters.~ ~In the Sûrahs of the second Meccan period
13  I          |        To understand the Medînah Sûrahs we must bear in mind Mohammed'
14  I          |    persons with whom the Medînah Sûrahs chiefly deal.~ ~The style
15  I          |         The style of the Medînah Sûrahs resembles that of the-third
16  I          |    expressed.~ ~As in the Meccan Sûrahs it is possible to arrive
17  I          |      uncertain.~ ~In the Medînah Sûrahs the prophet is no longer
18  I          |        misplaced and inserted in Sûrahs to which they did not originally
19  I          |       chronological order of the Sûrahs:~ ~Meccan Sûrahs.~ ~First
20  I          |          of the Sûrahs:~ ~Meccan Sûrahs.~ ~First Period (from the
21  I          |        XLVI, VI, XIII.~ ~Medînah Sûrahs.~ ~II, XCVIII, LXIV, LXII,
22  I          |         by these letters.'~ ~The Sûrahs are subdivided into 'âyât, '
23  I          |           The arrangement of the Sûrahs in chronological order,
24  I          |   together cannot bring ten such sûrahs. Misbelievers threatened
25  I,       XI|     devised it;' say, 'Bring ten sûrahs like it devised; and call