How to Read the Qur'an: A New Guide, with Select Translations

by Carl W. Ernst

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807835161
• ISBN13: 9780807835166
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"