@article{434869,
      recid = {434869},
      author = {Sardar, Ziauddin.},
      title = {Reading the Qur'an the contemporary relevance of the  sacred text of Islam / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Oxford University Press,},
      address = {Oxford ;},
      pages = {1 online resource (xxii, 406 p.)},
      year = {2011},
      note = {Description based on print version record.},
      abstract = {"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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/434869},
}