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How to Read the Qur'an

A New Guide, with Select Translations

Carl W. Ernst

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 12/2011
Pages: 288
Subject: Religion, History | University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807869079

DESCRIPTION

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.