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.