Reading the Qur'an: The Contemporary Relevance of the Sacred Text of Islam

by Ziauddin Sardar

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199836744
• ISBN13: 9780199836741
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.3" x 6.5"