Reading the Qur'an [electronic resource] : the contemporary relevance of the sacred text of Islam / Ziauddin Sardar.
Sardar, Ziauddin.
2011
BP130.4 .S376 2011eb
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Title Reading the Qur'an [electronic resource] : the contemporary relevance of the sacred text of Islam / Ziauddin Sardar.
Author Sardar, Ziauddin.
ISBN 9780199836758 (electronic book)
9780199836741
Publication Details Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxii, 406 p.)
Call Number BP130.4 .S376 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 297.1/226
Summary "I grew up reading the Qur'an on my mother's lap," writes Ziauddin Sardar. "It's an experience I share with most Muslim children. And so it is that our connection to the Qur'an is infused with associations of the warmest and most enduring of human bonds." In Reading the Qur'an, Sardar--one of Europe's leading public intellectuals--laments that for far too many Muslims, the Qur'an he had learned in his mother's lap has become a stick used for ensuring conformity and suppressing dissenting views. Indeed, some find in the Qur'an justification for misogyny, validation for hatred.
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Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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pt. 1. Overview
pt. 2. By way of tradition
pt. 3. Themes and concepts
pt. 4. Contemporary topics.

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