How to Read the Qur'an : : A New Guide, with Select Translations / / Carl W. Ernst.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Ernst, Carl W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• প্রকাশনার বছর: 2022
• ভাষা: English
• দৈহিক বর্ননা: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 8 B/W illustrations 2 Charts; 8 b+w photographs; 2 charts

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...

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