ملخص الجهاز:
Maintaining that the Qur’an presents mul tiple pictures of the universe, instead of a single monolithic picture, the author has divided the main content of the book into seven chapters among which the last five elaborate such “pictures”.
The author’s method of arriving at a particular picture of the universe consists of a synthetic approach to the related verses dispersed in the dif ferent chapters of the Qur’an but unified thematically in a coherent way.
Preferring the thematic and synthetic approach that is reflective of Islam’s holistic epistemology to the “piecemeal exegesis of one or two so-called cosmic or creation verses” as usually inspired by the reductionist episte mology of modern science, the author has blended revealed metaphysical data with empirical scientific data to portray different harmonious images of the universe.
The remaining five chapters of the book detail different Qur’anic terms and verses related to the cosmos, yielding the five “pictures” enumerated earlier.