Bibliograph

What the Qur'an meant and why it matters, Garry Wills

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What the Qur'an meant and why it matters, Garry Wills

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

What the Qur'an meant and why it matters

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

973797705

Responsibility statement

Garry Wills

Summary

A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and religious scholar redirects his lifelong focus on Christianity and takes open-minded look at the Qur'an, finding the original meaning of the sacred text and showing numerous parallels between it and the Old and New Testaments. --, Publisher's description

Table Of Contents

My Qur'an problem -- Iraq: the cost of ignorance -- Secular ignorance -- Religious ignorance -- Fearful ignorance -- The Qur'an: searching for knowledge -- A desert book -- Conversing with the cosmos -- The perpetual stream of prophets -- Peace to believers -- Zeal (jihad) -- The right path (shari'ah) -- Commerce -- Women: plural marriage -- Women: fighting back -- Women: the veil -- Envoi: Fairness in reading

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