Reaching beyond faith
Subtitle: a modern mind reads the Koran
By: Ibn Fārābi
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781491782798; 9781491782781; 9781491782804
Subjects: Study and teaching; Education; Qurʼan
Description: "Reaching beyond Faith: A Modern Mind Reads the Koran takes the reader beyond the realm of pure faith to explore the Koran from an essentially non-pietistic point of view and in social, historical, geographic, and above all, human contexts. Its 14 chapters, using some 800 verses from the Koran, take a critical look at a wide range of issues: from the audience the message of the Koran was meant for to the role of humans in the compilation of the Koran itself, from the nature of God's speech to the human side of the life of the Prophet of Islam, from jihad to crime and punishment, from the Koran's call to piety to the place of women in society, from the magnificence of God's creation to the insignificance of man."--Amazon.
Notes: Minimal Level Cataloging Plus.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-270) and index.