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Reaching beyond Faith: A Modern Mind Reads the Koran takes the reader beyond the realm of pure faith to explore the Koran from an essentially non-pietistic point of view and in social, historical, geographic, and above all, human contexts. Its 14 chapters, using some 800 verses from the Koran, take a critical look at a wide range of issues: from the audience the message of the Koran was meant for to the role of humans in the compilation of the Koran itself, from the nature of God's speech to the human side of the life of the Prophet of Islam, from jihad to crime and...

Reaching beyond Faith: A Modern Mind Reads the Koran takes the reader beyond the realm of pure faith to explore the Koran from an essentially non-pietistic point of view and in social, historical, geographic, and above all, human contexts. Its 14 chapters, using some 800 verses from the Koran, take a critical look at a wide range of issues: from the audience the message of the Koran was meant for to the role of humans in the compilation of the Koran itself, from the nature of God's speech to the human side of the life of the Prophet of Islam, from jihad to crime and...

The Saint Gaudens Modern English Version of the Holy Koran is translated from the original Arabic into modern English. It avoids the use of archaic linguistic style and conveys the original meaning in language easily understood by the modern reader of English. This volume is meant to help the general reader to understand the importance of Islam in the modern world and to assist students understand the nuances of the Koranic verse.

The purpose of this work is to provide the English speaking reader with a easily readable version of the Koran. It is curious that most previous English...

About the authors

Shaykh Ṣaliḥ al-Ja'fari (d.1979) was one of the most famous scholars of the Azhar, the Muslim world's premier institution of religious learning and its most authoritative voice, in the 20th century. He was also the imam of its mosque and a famous teacher and spiritual guide. He authored 15 works on various Islamic sciences, edited many others, and composed 12 volumes of poetry.

Shaykh Abd al-Ghanial-Jafri (d.2012) followed his father's footsteps, becoming one of the greatest spiritual guides and teachers of his time. He oversaw the building of...

Christians and Muslims both have an abundance of names for God.

e Bible provides Christians with a rich array of names for God,

and the ninety-nine Names that Islam gives traditionally to God are

drawn from the Qur'an. Praise the Name of the Lord is an o ering of

texts, from the Qur'an and the Bible, meant to lead to meditation

and prayer.