What's The Difference Between The Bible And The Quran?

As a collection of disparate texts written in different centuries by different individuals (and in some cases, writing in different languages), the Bible does not consist of any one type of literary genre, as Bible Gateway notes, but rather, multiple genres. Much of the document is narrative — a recitation of events, such as you would read in a history book. However, the text also includes books of prophecy, poetry, law, and the like.

By comparison, the Quran was written in only one literary style. It exists both within and without the normal conventions of the Arabic language, according to the website of Hamza Andreas Tzortzis, and it is neither poetry nor prose. Egyptian academic Taha Husayn (quoted by Tzortzis) described it as a literary genre unto itself. "The Qur'an is not prose and that it is not verse either. It is rather Qur'an, and it cannot be called by any other name but this ... It has been one of a kind, and nothing like it has ever preceded or followed it," Husayn wrote.