Muslims attributed the Quran’s rhythmic style to an unlettered Muhammad’s divine dictation.

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

Categorization

• DEFINE: States the core of the doctrine of i’jaz al-Qur’an (inimitability of the Qur’an) as Medieval Latin polemicists understood it.
• XREF: The ‘unlettered prophet’ argument echoes in later comparative studies of oral epic transmission where illiterate composers produce complex metrical forms. — connects to: For Muslims the Qur’an’s rhythmic style proved its divine origin