How to Read the Qur'an : : A New Guide, with Select Translations / / Carl W. Ernst.
A compact introduction and reader's guide to the Qur'anThis is an ideal introduction to the Qur'an, featuring the most up-to-date methods for reading and understanding the text. It deals with sensitive issues regarding the interpretation of sacred texts as well as differing points of...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 8 B/W illustrations 2 Charts; 8 b+w photographs; 2 charts |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Charts
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction The Problem of Reading the Qurʾan
- Chapter One The History and Form of the Qurʾan and the Practices of Reading
- Chapter Two Early Meccan Suras
- Chapter Three Middle and Later Meccan Suras
- Chapter Four Medinan Suras
- Conclusion Toward a Literary Reading of the Qurʾan
- Appendix A Reading the Structure of the Meccan Suras
- Appendix B Ring Structure in Sura 2 and Sura 5
- Appendix C Suggested Interpretive Exercises
- Notes
- Suggested Reading
- Index of Scriptural Citations
- General Index