The knowledge of 'Ulum al-Qu'ran, or 'The Sciences of the Qur'an', deals with the knowledge of those sciences that have a direct bearing on the recitation, history, understanding and implementation of the Qur'an. It is, therefore, a vast field of Islamic scholarship, and one that if of primary importance.

Some of the topics that will be covered include:
Its revelation.
Its collection.
Its order and arrangement.
Its writing down.
Information about the reasons and occasions of revelation.
About what was revealed in Makkah and what in Madinah.
About the abrogating and abrogated verses.
About the 'clear' and the 'unclear' verses.
The explanation of verses and passages by the Prophet himself, his Companions, their followers and the later exegetes of the Qur'an.
The methods of explanation.
Orientalists and the Qur'an.
Reading and recitation of the Qur'an External Event Url
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