ABSTRACT
Scientific Qurʾanic exegesis in a narrow sense entails the exegesis of the Qurʾān to show that the way modern science describes the world is the same, or at least very similar to, the way the world was described in the Qurʾān during the seventeenth century ce.5 Thus, the supporters of scientific Qurʾanic exegesis argue that this correspondence of the Qurʾān with modern scientific theories demonstrates (1) the inimitability of the Qurʾān; and (2) the harmony between Islam and science. The approach in which proponents of scientific Qurʾanic exegesis argue that the Qurʾān is inimitable or miraculous is often known as the scientific miracles school of exegesis or, occasionally, Bucaillism after Maurice Bucaille, a leading proponent of this approach whom I discuss below.
