Little further advance can be made in the interpretation of the Qur'an or of the life of Muhammad, until an exhaustive study has been made of the vocabulary of the Qur'an. The Qur'an is the first Arabic book, for through there was earlier poetry, it was not written down till much later. For the interpretation of this first Arabic book, we have been content until recently to turn to the classical commentaries, but the tendency of the commentators is to interpret ...
