Michael Prichard
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English
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Few books in history have been as poorly understood as the Qur'an. Sent down in a series of revelations to the Prophet Muhammad, the Qur'an is the unmediated word of Allah: a ritual, political, and legal authority; an ethical and spiritual guide; and a literary masterpiece that inspires devotion, passion, fear, and sometimes incomprehension.
In The Qur'an, historian and Islamic Studies professor Bruce Lawrence shows precisely how the Qur'an is the...