Reading the Qur'an [electronic resource] : the contemporary relevance of the sacred text of Islam / Ziauddin Sardar.

9780199836758 (electronic book)
9780199836741

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

English

1 online resource (xxii, 406 p.)

BP130.4 .S376 2011eb

297.1/226

"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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