This article examines the significance of Hichem Djait's reading of revelation. It suggests that Djait has put forward new avenues to approach the question of revelation that are linked to an effort to go beyond traditional views and review thinking of the orientalists. Djait is shown to be deeply involved in the realm of the "sacred," taking great pains to formulate his premises, and reluctantance to declare his conclusions. This is especially the case when Djait deals with the link between the Quran and the biography of the Prophet, and how the concepts of the Quran, prophecy, visions (ru'ya), revelation (tajalli), and inimicability (i'jaz) are perceived. He examines the rupture of the self that arises from this as a result of the interpenetration of the historical and the mythic, and of the immanent and the transcendent.