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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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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سنة النشر:2022
اللغة:English
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وصف مادي:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 8 B/W illustrations 2 Charts; 8 b+w photographs; 2 charts
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جدول المحتويات:
  • 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