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What the Qurʼan meant and why it matters, Garry Wills

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What the Qurʼan meant and why it matters, Garry Wills

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

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What the Qurʼan meant and why it matters

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bibliography

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Garry Wills

Summary

A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and religious scholar redirects his lifelong focus on Christianity and takes an open-minded look at the Qur'an, finding the original meaning of the sacred text and showing numerous parallels between it and the Old and New Testaments

Table Of Contents

My Qurʼan problem -- Iraq: the cost of ignorance -- Secular ignorance -- Religious ignorance -- Fearful ignorance -- The Qurʼan: searching for knowledge -- A desert book -- Conversing with the cosmos -- The perpetual stream of prophets -- Peace to believers -- Zeal (jihad) -- The right path (shariʻah) -- Commerce -- Women: plural marriage -- Women: fighting back -- Women: the veil -- Envoi: Fairness in reading

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What the Quran meant and why it matters

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