Mustafa Sadiq Al-Rafei’s Secrets of Miracle -Collection, Study and Investigation of a lost book-

Abstract

This present research addresses the scientific miracles, both linguistic and rhetorical, in Quranic discourse. This broad field focused mainly on scholars’ writings and publications in the earliest phase of  Islamic era, such as El Djahidh, El Baqillani, El Djodjani and Soyouti as well as scholars in the modern era. In this latter era, it should be noted, the well-known Arabic writer Mustafa Sadiq Rafiai wrote his book, entitled “Tarikh Adab El Arab”, in three parts, and devoted the second part to the scientific Miracles of Quran and prophetic rhetoric. Sadiq’s book became an agenda setting publication in the modern era as it paved the way for his other writers, who were keen to probe down the mysteries of scientific miracles of  quranic discourse.

        El Rafiai compiled and analyzed roughly eighty Quran verses before his death. Despite the short number of the Quranic texts, many of his contemporaries had been bewitched by his analyses of Quranic discourse. Scholars considered him as a pioneering figure in the field and many of them had been waiting for his work to be published. However, El Rafiai died before he can finish writing his book and many of his papers and documents remained scattered in different corners of his office.

       This present research attempts to shed light over this legacy and seeks to probe down into the mysteries of their writings and publications.