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

Carl W. Ernst

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748650695 ISBN 13: 9780748650699

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2012

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

This will serve both as a fine teaching tool at the college or seminary level and as a useful resource for engaged nonspecialists, who will find it challenging but rewarding --John Jaeger, Dallas Baptist University, Library Journal

Outstanding, timely and much needed. --Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University

A very well-written, remarkably accessible, timely and important book. It is sure to be read widely. --Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Princeton University

About the Author:

Carl W. Ernst is a W.R. Kenan 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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0748650695
• ISBN 13: 9780748650699
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288