What the Koran Really Says
Subtitle: Language, Text, and Commentary
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: October 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 782
ISBN-13: 9781573929455
Subjects: Sacred texts; Religion; Islam - Koran & Sacred Writings; Religion - World Religions; Islam; Controversial literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Koran; Language, style
First sentence: Muslims in general have a tendency to disarm any criticisms of Islam and in particular the Koran by asking if the critic has read the Koran in the original Arabic, as though all the difficulties of their sacred text will somehow disappear once the reader has mastered the holy language and has direct experience, aural and visual, of the very words of God, to which no translation can do justice.