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How to read the Qurʼan : a new guide, with select translations / Carl W. Ernst.

By: Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (x, 273 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780807869079
  • 0807869074
  • 9781469602448
  • 146960244X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: How to read the Qurʼan.DDC classification:
  • 297.1/2261 23
LOC classification:
  • BP130 .E76 2011eb
Online resources:
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.
Summary: 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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"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.

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.

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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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