Medinan surah


The Madni Surahs or Madani chapters of the Quran are the latest 24 Surahs that, according to Islamic tradition, were revealed at Medina after Muhammad's hijrat from Mecca. Community was larger and more developed, as opposed to their minority position in Mecca.
The Medinan Surahs occur mostly at the beginning and in the middle of the Qur'an, and typically have more and longer ayat. Due to the new circumstances of the early Muslim community in Medina, these surahs more often deal with details of moral principles, legislation, warfare, and principles for constituting and ordering the community. They also refer more often to the community with "O people!" and at times directly address Muhammad or speak of him as "an agent acting in combination with the divine persona: 'God and his messenger'."
The division of surahs into 'Meccan surahs' and 'Medinan surahs' is primarily a consequence of stylistic and thematic considerations, which Theodor Noldeke used to develop his famous chronology of the Qur'anic suras. Classification of the surahs into these periods is based upon factors such as the length of the verse and the presence or absence of certain key concepts or word.
The 26 Surahs of the Medinan period, according to Noldeke :
2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 22, 24, 33, 47, 48, 49, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 76, 98, 110
;Characteristics of Medinan surahs
Following are some of the stylistic and subject characteristics of Medinan Surahs: