ABSTRACT
The Arabic Reciting, or Qur'an, which the Prophet Muhammad transmitted to his people and, ultimately, all peoples, in the first third of the seventh century ce, presents God's word as a recapitulation of previous divine revelations to earlier prophets and their respective peoples. In the qur'anic message, nature is the most manifest token of the majesty and sovereignty as well as the bounty and mercy of God. It provides multiple reasons to praise Him as the beneficent Creator, generous Provider, merciful Lord, and omnipotent Master of the Resurrection and Judgment that will mark the end of the natural world. This chapter presents a general picture of how nature and its discrete phenomena play a central role in the development of a qur'anic theology, especially with regard to the central divine attributes of sovereignty and grace. God's absolute sovereignty as Creator, Sustainer, Controller, and Judge over the entire universe is arguably the leitmotiv of the qur'anic message altogether.
