How to Read the Qur'an: A New Guide, with Select Translations - Softcover

Ernst, Carl W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748650709 ISBN 13: 9780748650705

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

With new translations of 725 verses, this compact introduction and reader's guide to the Qur'an gives non-Arabic speakers the most precise translations available together with the tools they need to understand the text. It deals with sensitive issues regarding the interpretation of sacred texts and helps students to understand the differing points of view and major debates. A substantial explanatory introduction summarises the historical and literary issues and engages with the religious and political context of understanding the Qur'an today, including an appreciation of the ritual and oral uses of text.

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Carl W. Ernst is a W.R. Kenan Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Director of the Carolina Center for the Study of Middle East and Muslim Civilizations at UNC Global. He is author of several books including Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World (EUP, 2004), Sufi Martyrs of Love (Palgrave, 2002) and Teachings of Sufism (Shambhala Publications, 1999).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0748650709
• ISBN 13: 9780748650705
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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