“Produce One Chapter Like It”: The Miraculous Inimitability of the Qur’ān’s Shortest Chapter – Sapience Institute

“Produce One Chapter Like It”: The Miraculous Inimitability of the Qur’ān’s Shortest Chapter – Sapience Institute: The Qur'ān presents a challenge to humanity to produce one chapter like it. Its shortest chapter, Al-Kawthar, displays a remarkable frequency of linguistic devices and literary features, and it expresses maximal meaning within a unique structure. Informed by both Islamic and Western scholarship, this essay aims to showcase the Qur’ān’s miraculous literary and linguistic inimitability by analysing its smallest chapter. It also addresses key objections.