Words of Becoming: Roots to Revelation: Recovering the Original Meaning of the Quran through Roots, Grammar, and Context - Softcover

Ali, Dr. Rana Amjad

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798162164692

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

About the book
What did the Quran’s first listeners actually hear?
Words of Becoming is a guide to moving closer to the original meanings of the Arabic Quran by letting the language itself lead the inquiry.
Across thirteen chapters, Dr. Rana Amjad Ali builds a clear, step-by-step method of reading. It draws on:

• Root words and Semitic origins: how a small set of consonantal roots generates families of related meanings.
• Grammar as the architecture of meaning: why word order, pronouns, particles, and emphasis change what a sentence says.
• Context and coherence: how a word is clarified by its sentence, its passage, its chapter, and the Quran as a whole.
• The principle of first usage: how the Quran introduces and defines its own vocabulary.
• Semantic change: how words drift in meaning over time, and how to recover meaning through linguistic evidence.
• The Quran as its own dictionary: tracing a term through its repeated use to build a profile of its meaning.

A worked chapter shows the method applied to a single Quranic term, from identifying the root to testing for coherence.
The author is a geneticist and university educator. His Preface presents the project as a personal journey from Fitrah toward Jannah and invites readers to read for possibility rather than only for information.
This book is written for students of Arabic and Quranic studies, teachers, and thoughtful readers who want to understand the text more closely. No knowledge of Arabic is required.
Read the words. Follow their roots. Let the text explain itself.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798162164692
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 89