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BL
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1090730
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bc1010369
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| Language of Document
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English
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| Main Entry
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Wills, Garry,1934-
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| Title & Author
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What the Qurʼan meant and why it matters /\ Garry Wills.
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| Publication Statement
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New York, New York :: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,, [2017]
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| Page. NO
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x, 226 pages ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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9781101981023
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: 1101981024
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9781101981030
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: 9781101981047
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: 1101981040
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: My Qurʼan problem -- Part I. Iraq: the cost of ignorance. Secular ignorance -- Religious ignorance -- Fearful ignorance -- Part II. 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 -- Envoi: Fairness in reading.
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| Abstract
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and religious scholar redirects his lifelong focus on Christianity and takes open-minded look at the Qur'an, finding the original meaning of the sacred text and showing numerous parallels between it and the Old and New Testaments. --
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Islam-- Doctrines.
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Islam-- Doctrines.
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RELIGION-- Islam-- History.
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RELIGION-- Comparative Religion.
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RELIGION-- Islam-- Theology.
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Islam-- Doctrines.
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Qurʼan-- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Coran-- Critique, interprétation, etc.
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Qurʼan.
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| Dewey Classification
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297.1/226
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| LC Classification
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BP130.W55 2017
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