Title:
What the Qurʼan meant and why it matters / Garry Wills.
Author:
Wills, Garry, 1934- author.
Publication Information:
New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2017]
©2017
Call Number:
BP130 .W55 2017
Abstract:
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.
Title Subject:
ISBN:
9781101981023
Physical Description:
x, 226 pages ; 22 cm.
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Contents:
My Qurʼan problem -- Iraq: the cost of ignorance -- Secular ignorance -- Religious ignorance -- Fearful ignorance -- The Qurʼan: searching for knowledge -- A desert book -- Conversing with the cosmos -- The perpetual stream of prophets -- Peace to believers -- Zeal (jihad) -- The right path (shariʻah) -- Commerce -- Women: plural marriage -- Women: fighting back -- Women: the veil -- Envoi: Fairness in reading.
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