Coming to terms with the Qur'an/A volume in honor of Professor Issa Boullata, McGill University - Hardcover

Khaleel Mohammed; Andrew Rippin

9781889999487: Coming to terms with the Qur'an/A volume in honor of Professor Issa Boullata, McGill University

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1889999482 ISBN 13: 9781889999487

Publisher: Islamic Publications International, 2008

This collection of essays, organized as a part of the celebration of the seventy-fifth birthday of Professor Issa J. Boullata of the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, is devoted to elucidating the many dimensions of understanding the Qur'an. Many of those students, along with a groups of friends, have contributed essays all of which are devoted to explicating the Qur'an in its historical and contemporary contexts. The fourteen essays of this volume are testimony to that, each of them devoted to explicating the Qur'an in its historical and contemporary contexts.

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About the Author:

Khaleel Mohammed is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at San Diego State University. He is also a core-faculty member of that institution s Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies. Andrew Rippin he is the author of Muslims: their Religious Beliefs and Practices . He is currently Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Professor of Islamic History at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.

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