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What the Qur'an Meant: And Why It Matters, by Garry Wills
€7.00
Quay Books
In What the Qur’an Meant, 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?
In this book Wills, as a non-Muslim with an open mind, reads the Qur’an with sympathy but with rigour. 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.
What the Qur’an Meant is the opening of a conversation on one of the world’s most practiced religions.
“Wills has written perhaps the best introduction to the Quran that I know of: elegant, insightful, even at times joyful...his encounter with it is a pleasure to read for anyone as open to discovery as he is."- The New York Times
“A useful and worthy interpretation that non-Muslims will find illuminating” - Booklist
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