The Qur'an
eBook - ePub

The Qur'an

A Beginner's Guide

  1. 312 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Qur'an

A Beginner's Guide

About this book

Get to grips with one of the world's most powerful books. The Qur'an has spoken to Muslims for over one thousand years; it is seen as law-maker, moral code, and the word of God. Drawing on both contemporary and ancient sources, Esack outlines the key themes and explains the historical and cultural context of this unique work whilst examining its content, language and style, and the variety of approaches, including fundamentalist, feminist, and modernist, that have been used to interpret it. Other areas covered include: the Qu'ran as evocative oral experience; understanding and interpreting the Qu'ran; the major themes of the Qu'ran, including such issues as truth, justice and gender relations.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. 1. Introduction
  8. 2. The Qur’an in the lives of Muslims
  9. 3. The word enters the world
  10. 4. The Qur’an as written word
  11. 5. Gathering the Qur’an
  12. 6. The Prophet and the begotten-not-created Qur’an
  13. 7. Understanding and interpreting the Qur’an
  14. 8. Belief in the Qur’an
  15. 9. Righteous conduct in the Qur’an
  16. Postscript
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index

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