How to read the Qurʼan : a new guide, with select translations / Carl W. Ernst.
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TextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.Description: x, 273 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0807835161
- 9780807835166 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Northport Library | NonFiction | 297.1226 E71 | Available | 33111006167163 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
For anyone, non-Muslim or Muslim, who wants to know how to approach, read, and understand the text of the Qur'an, How to Read the Qur'an offers a compact introduction and reader's guide. Using a chronological reading of the text according to the conclusions of modern scholarship, Carl W. Ernst offers a nontheological approach that treats the Qur'an as a historical text that unfolded over time, in dialogue with its audience, during the career of the Prophet Muhammad.
"This book was published with the assistance of the William R. Kenan Jr. Fund of the University of North Carolina Press."
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The problem of reading the Quran -- The history and form of the Quran and the practices of reading -- Early Meccan suras -- Middle and later Meccan suras -- Medinan suras -- Toward a literary reading of the Quran.
Presents the Koran in an historical, nontheological manner in order to make it easier to approach, read, and understand for Muslims and non-Muslims alike.