MarqoomSurah classification
Definitions, names, and the boundaries between concepts.
Mathani — المثاني
Definition: The surahs shorter than the miun, coming after them in the traditional division; called mathani because they are recited more often.
Purpose: Used as a value of surah group, so that reading plans and the tafsir works that treat the group as a unit can refer to it.
| field | value |
|---|---|
code | mathani |
kind | classification_value |
| Parent | surah_group |
| Origin | quranic |
| Tier | extended |
| Version | v0.1 |
| Vocalized | المَثَانِي |
The standard does not list the group's members surah by surah: the sources differ over the seventh of the tiwal and the start of the mufassal, and no registry yet enumerates each group's members with its source.
Related: surah_group, surah
Sources:
- الإتقان في علوم القرآن —
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Miun — المئون
Definition: The surahs whose ayahs come to about 100, a little more or a little less.
Purpose: Used as a value of surah group, so that reading plans and the tafsir works that treat the group as a unit can refer to it.
| field | value |
|---|---|
code | miun |
kind | classification_value |
| Parent | surah_group |
| Origin | quranic |
| Tier | extended |
| Version | v0.1 |
| Vocalized | المِئُون |
| English gloss | Hundred-Verse Surahs |
The standard does not list the group's members surah by surah: the sources differ over the seventh of the tiwal and the start of the mufassal, and no registry yet enumerates each group's members with its source.
Related: surah_group, surah
Sources:
- الإتقان في علوم القرآن —
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Mufassal — المفصل
Definition: A group of the short surahs following the mathani; scholars differ over where it begins.
Purpose: Used as a value of surah group, so that reading plans and the tafsir works that treat the group as a unit can refer to it.
| field | value |
|---|---|
code | mufassal |
kind | classification_value |
| Parent | surah_group |
| Origin | quranic |
| Tier | extended |
| Version | v0.1 |
| Vocalized | المُفَصَّل |
The standard does not list the group's members surah by surah: the sources differ over the seventh of the tiwal and the start of the mufassal, and no registry yet enumerates each group's members with its source.
Related: surah_group, surah
Sources:
- الإتقان في علوم القرآن —
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Saba Tiwal — السبع الطوال
Definition: A group of the longest surahs of the Quran, at its beginning, with a known disagreement over which surah is the seventh.
Purpose: Used as a value of surah group, so that reading plans and the tafsir works that treat the group as a unit can refer to it.
| field | value |
|---|---|
code | saba_tiwal |
kind | classification_value |
| Parent | surah_group |
| Origin | quranic |
| Tier | extended |
| Version | v0.1 |
| Vocalized | السَّبْع الطِّوَال |
| Other spellings | sab_tiwal |
| English gloss | Seven Long Surahs |
The standard does not list the group's members surah by surah: the sources differ over the seventh of the tiwal and the start of the mufassal, and no registry yet enumerates each group's members with its source.
Related: surah_group, surah
Sources:
- الإتقان في علوم القرآن —
1/201
Surah Group — تصنيف السور
Definition: A classification gathering surahs by inherited conventional divisions that rest on length or on their place among the groups of surahs.
Purpose: Gives classifications such as the tiwal, the miun, the mathani and the mufassal one parent.
| field | value |
|---|---|
code | surah_group |
kind | classification |
| Values | mathani, miun, mufassal, saba_tiwal |
| Origin | standard |
| Tier | extended |
| Version | v0.1 |
| Vocalized | تَصْنِيف السُّوَر |
Related: saba_tiwal, miun, mathani, mufassal, surah
Sources:
- الإتقان في علوم القرآن —
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