How to Read the Qur'an
A New Guide, with Select Translations
Published on 5. December 2011
288 pages
978-0-8078-6907-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Carl W. Ernst is William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World, among other books.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Problem of Reading the Qur'an
- Chapter One: The History and Form of the Qur'an and the Practices of Reading
- Chapter Two: Early Meccan Suras
- Chapter Three: Middle and Later Meccan Suras
- Chapter Four: Medinan Suras
- Conclusion: Toward a Literary Reading of the Qur'an
- Appendix A: Reading the Structure of the Meccan Suras
- Appendix B: Ring Structure in Sura 2 and Sura 5
- Appendix C: Suggested Interpretive Exercises
- Notes
- Suggested Reading
- Index of Scriptural Citations
- General Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
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- Q
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