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Introduction to the Qur'an

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Introduction to the Qur'an

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I.B.Tauris in Association with the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies

In this book the distinguished Islamic scholar M. A. Draz, one of the Muslim world's most erudite authorities of this century, sets out the fundamental principles of the Qur'an and its much misunderstood and misquoted teachings on gender and women, polygamy, war, faith, Judaism, Christianity and the many other issues on which the Qur'an pronounces.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface

Part One: Background History
1. The Early Life of the Prophet
2. The Composition of the Revealed Text
3. How the Qur'anic Doctrine was Announced to the World

Part Two: The Qu'ran from its Three Main Aspects: Religion, Morality and Literature
4. Truth, or the Religious Element
5. Goodness, or the Moral Element
6. Beauty, or the Literary Element

Part Three: The Origin of the Qu'ran
7. Meccan Sources of the Qu'ran
8. Medinan Sources of the Qu'ran

Conclusion
Notes
Index

Product details

Published Aug 20 2011
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 176
ISBN 9781848856899
Imprint I.B. Tauris
Dimensions Not specified
Series London Qur'an Studies
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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