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Wills, Garry, 1934-
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Quran -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Quran -- Reading.
Islam -- Doctrines.
Jihad.
Islamic law.
Women -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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Wills, Garry, 1934-
Quran -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Quran -- Reading.
Islam -- Doctrines.
Jihad.
Islamic law.
Women -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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What the Qurʾan meant and why it matters / Garry Wills.
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Wills, Garry, 1934-
Viking, 2017.
Call #:
297
.1226
W741w
Subjects
Quran -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Quran -- Reading.
Islam -- Doctrines.
Jihad.
Islamic law.
Women -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
ISBN:
9781101981023 (hc.)
Description:
226 pages cm
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
My Qurʾan Problem -- Iraq: The Cost of Ignorance -- Secular Ignorance -- Religious Ignorance -- Fearful Ignorance -- The Qurʾan: searching for knowledge: A desert book -- Conversing with the cosmos -- The perpetual stream of prophets -- Peace to believers -- Zeal (Jihad) -- The right path (shariʻah) -- Commerce -- Women: plural marriage -- Women: fighting back -- Women: the veil.
Summary:
"Garry Wills has spent a lifetime thinking and writing about Christianity. Now, Wills invites readers to join him as he embarks on a timely and necessary reconsideration of the Qur'an, leading us through perplexing passages with insight and erudition. What does the Qur'an actually say about veiling women? Does it justify religious war? There was a time when ordinary Americans did not have to know much about Islam. That is no longer the case. We blundered into the longest war in our history without knowing basic facts about the Islamic civilization with which we were dealing. We are constantly fed false information about Islam - claims that it is essentially a religion of violence, that its sacred book is a handbook for terrorists. There is no way to assess these claims unless we have at least some knowledge of the Qur'an. Wills, as a non-Muslim with an open mind, reads the Qur'an with sympathy but with rigor, trying to discover why other non-Muslims, such as Pope Francis, find it an inspiring book, worthy to guide people down through the centuries. There are many traditions that add to and distort and blunt the actual words of the text. What Wills does resembles the work of art restorers who clean away accumulated layers of dust to find the original meaning. He compares the Qur'an with other sacred books, the Old Testament and the New Testament, to show many parallels between them. There are also parallel difficulties of interpretation, which call for patient exploration, and which offer some thrills of discovery. The opening of a conversation on one of the world's most practiced religions. Garry Wills is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and the author of What Jesus Meant, Papal Sin, Why I Am a Catholic, and Why Priests?, among others. He studied for the priesthood, took his doctorate in the classics, and taught ancient and New Testament Greek at Johns Hopkins University. Professor of history emeritus at Northwestern University, he lives in Evanston, Illinois"--Provided by publisher.
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