Is the Quran a Retelling of Biblical Stories?

Often, Muslims unversed in the science of Sīrah, Ḥadīth, Tafsīr, or ʿAqīdah grapple with the question of how the Prophet ﷺ could have been such a genuine, novel prophet of God if his holy book almost entirely resembles the Torah and Evangel in its dramatis and locis personae. If the Prophet ﷺ was truly a revelatory man, then why were his expressions of Logos so strikingly similar to the expressions of those before him? For some, the inability to answer these questions leads to a doubt in the prophecy of the Prophet ﷺ. For others, it leads to the faulty conclusion that every religion of God must be some form of internal expression borrowing from a previous archetype. This article argues against these conclusions by arguing, from the ground-up, for the miraculous nature of the Quran. It presents, in order: a proper context of the life of the Unlettered Prophet ﷺ and his personality; the iconoclastic nature of certain Quranic narratives, even in the face of contrasting Biblical precedents; the unique prognostications of the Quranic corpus; its severe warnings against claims of self-authorship; and the ontological necessity of truth-consistency. Understood together, a proper understanding of these five aspects makes any claim against the revelatory nature of the Quran a flagrantly false one.