| How to Read the Qur'an: A New Guide, with Select Translations Contributor(s): Ernst, Carl W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1469609762 ISBN-13: 9781469609768 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $35.63 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Islam - Koran & Sacred Writings - History | Middle East - General |
| Dewey: 297.122 |
| LCCN: 2011020424 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9.2" (0.95 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For anyone, non-Muslim or Muslim, who wants to know how to approach, read, and understand the text of the Qur'an, How to Read the Qur'an offers a compact introduction and reader's guide. Using a chronological reading of the text according to the conclusions of modern scholarship, Carl W. 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ernst, Carl W.: - Carl W. Ernst is William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World, among other books. |