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How to read the Qurʾan : a new guide, with select translations / Carl W. Ernst.
LIBRA BP130 .E76 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ernst, Carl W., 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Qurʼan--Introductions.
- Qurʼan.
- Qurʼan--Reading.
- Qurʼan--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Qurʼan as literature.
- Genre:
- Introductions.
- Physical Description:
- x, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- Presents the Koran in an historical, nontheological manner in order to make it easier to approach, read, and understand for Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
- Contents:
- The problem of reading the Quran
- The history and form of the Quran and the practices of reading
- Early Meccan suras
- Middle and later Meccan suras
- Medinan suras
- Toward a literary reading of the Quran.
- Notes:
- "This book was published with the assistance of the William R. Kenan Jr. Fund of the University of North Carolina Press."
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780807835166
- 0807835161
- OCLC:
- 711043340
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