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

ISBN-13: 9780748650705 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 288 str.

Carl W. Ernst

Opis

A compact introduction and reader's guide to the Qur'an.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Problem with Reading the Qur'an; 1: The History and the Form of the Qur'an and the Practices of Reading; 2: Early Meccan Suras; 3: Middle and Later Meccan Suras; 4: 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.