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Lexical bundles crucially shape the discourse of specialized registers  such as religious scriptures, yet research on bundles that characterize Islamic sacred texts such as the Qur'an remains scarce. This study conducts a comprehensive corpus analysis to identify prevalent lexical bundles in an English translation of the Qur'an, illuminating their structural forms and functional roles in encoding Islamic theology. A specialized corpus of 166,807 words spanning 114 suras was constructed, with frequent bundles extracted using software and filtering based on predetermined frequency/distribution thresholds. Identified bundles were qualitatively coded for structural realizations and functional types by multiple researchers. Findings revealed a marked predominance of nominal and prepositional phrase bundles systematically lexicalizing and reinforcing core religious concepts and metaphysical tenets. The quantitative prevalence of research-oriented bundles contextualizing theological subject matter over participant-oriented ones projecting stances and experiences, suggests that the Qur’an upholds an epistemological tradition regarding itself as an inviolable corpus encoding divinely revealed spiritual verities. These findings yield profound pedagogical implications since instructional approaches elucidating prevalent bundles as linguistic "building blocks" can foster holistic mastery of authentic Qur’anic expressions among diverse learners while preserving spiritual sanctity. Furthermore, bundle-focused activities cultivate integrated literacies surrounding comprehension, rhetorical articulation, and critical analysis of the linguistic and cultural dimensions of religious texts.

Qur'anic stories are among the topics that interest Orientalists and have been analyzed differently. In some Orientalist works, attention has been paid to the whole story, and in others, some details have been focused on. German Orientalist, Rudi Paret, has presented a concise interpretation of Qur'anic stories in the book <em>The Qur'an Commentary and Concordance</em>. In this article, we will review his opinions in this field. The results of this article indicate that despite Paret's attention to the interpretation of verses with other verses and referring to the tradition of Islamic interpretation, relying on the information of the Bible and relying too much on the oriental tradition before him caused his misunderstanding of some stories. His focus is on some details in Qur'anic stories such as the meaning of the words Hettah and Raqeem, which conflict with the Islamic interpretation tradition in most cases.