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What the Qurʼan meant and why it matters / Garry Wills.
Record details
- ISBN: 1101981024
- ISBN: 9781101981023
- Physical Description: 226 pages
- Publisher: New York : Viking, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | My Qurʼan Problem -- Iraq: The Cost of Ignorance -- Secular Ignorance -- Religious Ignorance -- Fearful Ignorance -- The Qurʼan: 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. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 34.00 |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Qurʼan > Criticism, interpretation, etc. Islam > Doctrines. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | 297.1226 Wil | 31681020069803 | NONFIC | Available | - |
Garry Wills is a Pulitzer Prize'winning historian and the author of The New York Times bestsellers 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.
