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John William Jakes (March 31, 1932 – March 11, 2023) was an American writer, best known for historical and speculative fiction. His American Civil War trilogy, North and South, has sold millions of copies worldwide. He was also the author of The Kent Family Chronicles. Jakes used the pen name Jay Scotland among others.
The book predominantly in Arabic but passages in Persian also appear throughout the work. The main objective [citation needed] for undertaking to write this work was to interpret only those verses of the Qur’an which are generally considered to be difficult to understand. A special feature of this particular work is that the author has, in ...
The Hijazi style manuscripts nevertheless confirm that transmission of the Quran in writing began at an early stage. Probably in the ninth century, scripts began to feature thicker strokes, which are traditionally known as Kufic scripts. Toward the end of the ninth century, new scripts began to appear in copies of the Quran and replace earlier ...
John Jakes, the bestselling author of historical novels whose books The Bastard and North And South were adapted into highly rated TV movies and miniseries in the 1970s and ’80s, died Saturday ...
He has the credit of being the first scholar to give script to the Brushaski and writing related to the esoteric interpretation of the Holy Qur’a more than 150 books in different languages and also his poetry on Sufism is famous around the world e.g. Burushaski, Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Turkish, French, English etc. and also the first person to ...
The Quran is not written in a "pure" Arabic, as the Syriac language seems to have had a certain influence on the language of the Quran which was forgotten later. This could provide a possible explanation of why a fifth of the Quranic text is difficult to understand.
Quran imitations represent literary attempts to replicate the style, form and content of the Quran. Historically, they emerge in a dialectic with the doctrine of the i'jaz (inimitability) of the Quran, which asserts that the literary and/or semantic nature of the Quran cannot be reproduced by a human. Both Muslims and non-Muslims have written ...
T.D. Jakes has never shied away from his position on abstinence, but he is also the author of "Women Thou Art Loosed" and has hosted 25 years of a conference that’s taught women how to break out ...