Investigation on the Mystery of the Qur’an's Disjointed Letters
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Disjointed letters, also called disconnected, opening, or muqattaat letters, (in Arabic: الحروف المقطعة) are characters that are put in the beginning of some chapters of the holy Qur’an, and which are pronounced discontinuously, such as acronyms or abbreviations. For a long time, there has been no clear explanation of their significance or at least no unanimous interpretation. In fact, different attempts to explain them were done, but no clear proofs of their interpretations were presented. This situation prompted us to make a text mining investigation in order to see if it is possible to find any explanation for this mysterious enigma. Hence, seven different approaches of text analysis are made: size based analysis, character frequency based analysis, lexical analysis, philosophical analysis, character N-gram based analysis, Qur’an based analysis and arithmetic analysis. The different quoted investigations did not give a clear explanation of the enigma, but they led to several interesting conclusions.
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