Surah Comparator

Compare any two surahs side by side — length, period of revelation, shared themes and recurring expressions.

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Munāsabāt Atlas

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Semantic ties between surahs — from the classical tafsir tradition.

Revelation Timeline

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Revelation periods of surahs (Meccan/Medinan) — chronological flow.

Word Heatmap

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Distribution density of a word across all 114 surahs.

Classical Sources
el-Bikâî
Naẓm al-Durar fī Tanāsub al-Āy wa al-Suwar
1406–1480 (Kahire)
The foundational work of inter-sūrah munāsabāt studies — systematically examines each sūrah's link with the previous one verse by verse. The classical grounding for inter-sūrah comparison.
es-Süyûtî
al-Itqān fī ʿUlūm al-Qurʾān
1445–1505 (Kahire)
Encyclopedia of Quranic sciences; topics like the beginning-ending correspondence of sūrahs (ibtidāʾ-khātima), fāsila relations, and shared themes come from here.
ez-Zerkeşî
al-Burhān fī ʿUlūm al-Qurʾān
1344–1392 (Kahire)
On tanāsub / coherence (§2) — argues from a rhetorical perspective why sūrahs are arranged in mushaf order rather than revelation order.
Neal Robinson
Discovering the Qurʾan
1996 (SCM Press)
Modern academic study of munāsabāt — alongside Cuypers and Neuwirth, offers a contemporary systematic analysis of intra-sūrah structure + inter-sūrah ties.