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Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking comparative study that illuminates the connections between the Qur'an and the Bible. While the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament are understood to be related texts, the sacred scripture of Islam, the third Abrahamic faith, has generally been considered separately. Noted religious scholar Gabriel Said Reynolds draws on centuries of Qur'anic and Biblical studies to offer rigorous and revelatory commentary on how these holy books are...
3) The crowning venture: inspiration from women who have memorized the Quran / Ḥāfiẓa Saadia Mian, MD
Author
Publisher
Daybreak Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
If the Oceans Were Ink is Carla Power's eye-opening story of how she and her longtime friend Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi found a way to confront ugly stereotypes and persistent misperceptions that were cleaving their communities. Their friendship-between a secular American and a madrasa-trained sheikh-had always seemed unlikely, but now they were frustrated and bewildered by the battles being fought in their names. Both knew that a close look at the...
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Abdel Haleem's introduction offers a brief history of the revelation and compilation of the Qur'an, its structure and stylistic features, and considers issues of interpretation in relation to militancy, intolerance, and subjection of women. His notes explain geographical, historical, and personal allusions and cross-referencing within the Qur'an. The Qur'an, believed by Muslims to be the word of God, was revealed to Prophet Muhammad 1400 years ago....
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Islam's founding text, rendered for the first time in flowing English verse. This monumental feat of translation, the product of a ten-year-long collaboration between one of our most respected scholars of Islam (Bruce B. Lawrence) and a poet and scholar of literature (M. A. R. Habib), The Qur'an: A Verse Translation offers readers the first rendering in English to echo, in accessible and fluent verse, the sonorous beauty of the Arabic original as...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Who is Allah? What makes Him unique? And what does He ask of those who submit to His teachings? The God of the Qur'an revises and perfects: His purpose is to make whole what had been corrupted or lost from the practices and scriptures of the earlier Abrahamic religions. Setting passages from the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Qur'an side by side, Miles illuminates what is unique about Allah, His teachings and His temperament, and in doing...
Publisher
Islamic Foundation
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
An anthology of selections from the Qur'an in contemporary English on topics ranging from the story of Creation and the idea of God to politics and economics. Compiled by three scholars, including T. B. Irving, the first American to translate the Qur'an into English, with a helpful introduction, extensive glossary and an index of Qur'anic verses.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Based on extensive scholarship, an innovative biography of the central text of Islam Over a billion copies of the Qur`an exist, yet it remains an enigma. Its classical Arabic language resists simple translation, and its non-linear style of abstract musings defies categorization. Moreover, those who champion its sanctity and compete to claim its mantle offer widely diverging interpretations of its core message at times with explosive results. Building...
Author
Publisher
Islamic Foundation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Inside this board book toddlers and young children will find out about the Qur'an's beautiful teachings: to care for all creation; to respect the books of the Prophet and God; to be good to one another; and to believe in Allah, the Creator.
Series
Animals in the Quran volume 10
Publisher
Kisa Kids Publications
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Abraha and his giant army of elephants are on their way to crush the Holy Ka'bah. The entire city of Mecca is in a panic, except Abdul Mutallib. He knows that Allah is the keeper of the Ka'bah and He will protect it."--Page [4] of cover.
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