How to Read the Qur'an: A New Guide with Select Translations

About this book

For anyone non-Muslim or Muslim who wants to know how to approach read and understand the text of the Quran How to Read the Quran offers a compact introduction and readers guide. Using a chronological reading of the text according to the conclusions of modern scholarship Carl W. Ernst offers a nontheological approach that treats the Quran as a historical text that unfolded over time in dialogue with its audience during the career of the Prophet Muhammad.