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How to Read the Qur'an: A New Guide, with Select Translations - Hardcover

Ernst, Carl W.

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9780807835166: How to Read the Qur'an: A New Guide, with Select Translations
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ISBN 10: 0807835161 ISBN 13: 9780807835166
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 2011

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Carl W. Ernst is William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World, among other books.

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This book offers a compact introduction and reader's guide for anyone, non-Muslim or Muslim, who wants to know how to approach, read, and understand the text of the Qur'an. Using a chronological reading of the text according to the conclusions of modern scholarship, 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.

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Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0807835161
ISBN 13 
9780807835166
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
288
Rating
  • 4.03 out of 5 stars
    77 ratings by Goodreads