The Quran—The Miracle Given to the Prophet

274 at the supreme eloquence of the Quran, he openly admitted defeat, “You were right, quite right,” he said, “I unreservedly concede defeat.” “‘For you to acknowledge the truth,” Keilany replied, “is nothing strange, for you are a man of letters, well aware of the importance of style in language.” This particular orientalist was fluent in English, German, Hebrew and Arabic and had spent all his life studying the literature of these languages.187