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The Qur'an: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McAuliffe, Jane
- Series:
- What everyone needs to know
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islam.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- ""The connectivity fostered by globalization coupled with the increased tension generated by the tragedies of September 11th and other terrorist atrocities have created an intellectual hunger on both sides of the divide between the West and the Islamic world. Americans, Europeans, and others in "the West" want adequate and reliable information about Islam and the Muslim world. But what they get is often misleading, distorted and sensationalized. To offset this, those of us who know something about these subjects have been working overtime to correct the inaccuracies and to stop the flow of misinformation. Many religious leaders and scholars in the Muslim world are on a similar quest. They want to know how people in non-Muslim countries learn about Islam, the Qur'an, and the fundamentals of Muslim faith and practice because they, too, are fully aware of the falsehoods and fabrications that often pass for the truth in many American and Eu
- ISBN:
- 0-19-086770-1
- 0-19-756961-7
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