Introducing the Qur'anAuthor :
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Published : Friday 4 February 2011
Description
Award-winning professor John Kaltners new work offers a general introduction and orientation to the Quran. It surveys the origin, structure, contents, study, and use of Islams sacred text. Offering selective rather than comprehensive coverage, the work allows for discussion and analysis of specific themes and issues of interest to modern readers.
Following an introduction that describes and situates how the Quran is both studied and experienced, Kaltners book takes up the following themes by chapter to foster a contemporary understanding and appreciation of the Quran: the natural environment, Muslim life, gender and sexuality, non-Muslims and the Other, jihad, war and peace, and life after death. Significant passages from the Quran are identified and analyzed, with a special focus on how modern scholars, both Muslim and non-Muslim, understand them. Kaltner intersperses his book with numerous photographs and textboxes to emphasize and highlight important elements of the Quran, its history, and its relevance to contemporary life.
Check out the audio glossary on the Student tab to hear the author pronounce the Arabic words!
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