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Synopsis
In this book Wills, as a non-Muslim with an open mind, reads the Qur'an with sympathy but with rigor, trying to discover why other non-Muslims - like Pope Francis - find it an inspiring book, worthy to guide people down through the centuries. There are many traditions that add to and distort and blunt the actual words of the text. What Wills does resembles the work of art restorers who clean away accumulated layers of dust to find the original meaning.
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Review
"Wills has written perhaps the best introduction to the Quran that I know of: elegant, insightful, even at times joyful...his encounter with it is a pleasure to read for anyone as open to discovery as he is."
--The New York Times
Additional Praise for Garry Wills: "Garry Wills is not only one of the country's most distinguished intellectuals but also one of its most provocative, bringing his learning to bear on great questions of history and contemporary politics." --The New York Times Book Review "America's greatest public intellectual." --Chicago Tribune "Garry Wills is simultaneously one of this country's leading public intellectuals and American Catholicism's most formidable lay scholar. . . . What makes Wills's contribution unique in a country whose shelves of religious books these days overflow with vitriol, bombast and treacle is his singular combination of intellectual integrity and authentically unsentimental spirituality." --Los Angeles Times
About the Author
Garry Wills is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and the author of The New York Times bestsellers What Jesus Meant, Papal Sin, Why I Am a Catholic, and Why Priests?, among others. He studied for the priesthood, took his doctorate in the classics, and taught ancient and New Testament Greek at Johns Hopkins University. Professor of history emeritus at Northwestern University, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.
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- PublisherViking Press Inc
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1101981024
- ISBN 13 9781101981023
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages240
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