Qur’an’s Characteristics: Review of Literature

Abstract

This paper examines and surveys literature about the characteristics of the Holy Qur’an. This review summarizes both modern and previous researches and studies which aimed to specify and determine why and how the Qur’an is different and difficult to translate. The used sources deal with the issue from different perspectives what have all something to do with translation. The characteristics that the paper discusses lead, automatically, to what we call Qur’an untranslatability and inimitability. The paper does not take anything for granted and examines the sources to check all the characteristics and to analyze the given examples and evidence. The used literature is originally written in English and Arabic. The Arabic sources are translated to make the paper understandable and systemic.