For Muslims the Qur’an’s rhythmic style proved its divine origin

Evidence

The Muslims and the Arabs glory in this especially, that the diction and style of their law is rhythmical; and they say that it is clear from this that God made that Book and revealed it word for word to Muhammad, because Muhammad was an uneducated man, and did not know how to contrive such style and such sentiments. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 338 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

An unexpected omission was the reading aloud of the Qur’an, which takes an important part in the life of a Muslim city, where the Qur’an reader is an artist much in demand. It may have been of this that one Christian was thinking when he contrasted Christian psalmody with the abhominabilis melodia of Islam. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1196 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Muslims attributed the Quran’s rhythmic style to an unlettered Muhammad’s divine dictation. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 338; Medieval Christian observers overlooked the central role of Qur’an recitation in Muslim cities — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1196

Related

• Muslims attributed the Quran’s rhythmic style to an unlettered Muhammad’s divine dictation. (similarity 0.92)
• Medieval Christian observers overlooked the central role of Qur’an recitation in Muslim cities (similarity 0.88)
• Medieval Christian descriptions of Islam omitted Qur’anic recitation entirely. (similarity 0.83)
• Medieval Christian readers studied the Qur’an’s internal play of divine and human speaking voices. (similarity 0.82)
• Christian polemicists rejected Quranic metrical style as proof of divinity, citing scripture’s prose. (similarity 0.80)
• Medieval attacks on the Qur’an obscured its evident piety to unlearned readers (similarity 0.80)
• Medieval Western scholars judged the Qur’an human because its style failed scholastic standards (similarity 0.80)
• Medieval annotators grasped the Qur’an’s polyphonic shifts of speaker and the illiteracy argument (similarity 0.79)
• Medieval Muslims agreed on divine origin but disputed Qur’anic interpretation (similarity 0.79)
• Christian polemicists deemed the Qur’an’s style itself inherently defective, not merely untranslatable (similarity 0.79)
• Medieval Christians used the Qur’an’s poetic form to deny its divine status (similarity 0.79)
• Ricoldo conceded Muslims differed over interpretation but not over divine origin. (similarity 0.79)
• Medieval readers preferred Muslim legendary material they could ridicule over the Quran itself (similarity 0.78)
• Christian polemicists reversed the Qur’an’s own self-authentication by aesthetics (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Muslims attributed the Quran’s rhythmic style to an unlettered Muhammad’s divine dictation. #corroborates (0.90) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 338
• Medieval Christian observers overlooked the central role of Qur’an recitation in Muslim cities #expands (0.70) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1196