إرم بين النص القرآني و النقوش القديمة

Abstract EN

The study aims to shed light on the mention of the name “Iram” in the verses of some surahs of the Holy Quran, and the historical context of that name through the Quran text, and the extent of its connection with the same name contained in the ancient inscriptions of some Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, and how the terms relate to each other through the historical findings in which refers that is was mentioned as "Iram", either those findings were explicit and specific, or general and unspecified in Holy writings, including the "Holy Quran", and ancient inscriptions and writings in some civilizations of the Near East.

The significance of this paper lays in the fact that it is a historical-comparative study between what was mentioned in holy texts (the Holy Quran) in a historical context, and what was mentioned in the same context of the ancient inscriptions and writings of some Civilizations of the Ancient Near East about “Iram” city.

The researcher applied the inference and conclusion based method on the study.

As well as the analytical method to find out the level of connection between the term “Iram” of the Holy text (the Holy Quran) and the same term that was mentioned in ancient inscriptions and writings, and to express the extent of similarities or differences between the two terms through an inference-based analysis to those texts.