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 of the Prophet Muhammad.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469609762
• ISBN13: 9781469609768
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"