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Sira vs Sura - What's the difference?

sira | sura |

As nouns the difference between sira and sura

is that sira is a traditional Muslim biography of Muhammad while sura is any of the 114 chapters of the Qur'an.

sira

English

(wikipedia sira)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Islam) A traditional Muslim biography of Muhammad.

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    sura

    English

    (wikipedia sura)

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    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Any of the 114 chapters of the Qur'an.
  • * 1985 , Kristina Nelson, The Art of Reciting the Qur?an'', (Cairo), (Egypt): (American University in Cairo Press) (2001), ISBN 9774245946, chapter 2: “”, page 25:
    • Most of these essentially uninflected syllables (CV?C) are names of the letters of the alphabet and introduce some of the suwar of the Qur?anic text.

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