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What the Koran Really Says

Language, Text, and Commentary

ISBN-13: 9781573929455
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: PROMETHEUS
Edited by Ibn Warraq
Price: AUD $62.99
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Local release date: 01/03/2003
Format: Hardback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 600 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Islam [HRH]Sacred texts [HRLC]

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Google Preview: Islam has world-wide influence, and even in the United States is experiencing a period of unprecedented growth. Its sacred book, "The Koran", is the subject of voluminous commentary, yet it rarely receives the kind of objective critical scrutiny that has been applied to the texts of the Bible for over a century. To correct this neglect of objective scholarship, Ibn Warraq has assembled this excellent collection of critical commentaries on "The Koran" published by noted scholars from the beginning of the 20th century to recent times. This outstanding volume will be a welcome resource to interested lay readers and scholars alike.; Ibn Warraq is the highly acclaimed author of Why I Am Not a Muslim, Virgins? What Virgins?, and Defending the West. He is also the editor of The Origins of the Koran, What the Koran Really Says, Leaving Islam, The Quest for the Historical Muhammad, and Which Koran?.; ""For the professional Islamicist, it is enormously convenient to have all these articles assembled together in a single work. For anyone interested in the Koran, it will be a boon to understanding Islam. ...robustly critical scholarship...." -Times Literary Supplement "Like Ibn Warraq's earlier (and extraordinary) Why I Am Not a Muslim, this book offers a perspective on Islam and the Koran which demands a wider reading and a wider debate, and not just in the Christian and secular West.... [An] excellent book on a sensitive and under-explored subject." -Fortean Times; Google Preview content

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