Qur'an Dilemma : Former Muslims Analyze Islam's Holiest Book

Qur'an Dilemma : Former Muslims Analyze Islam's Holiest Book by former muslims. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781935577034.

The Quran is the very foundation of Islam. It is the source of all laws and practices, religious or otherwise, in Islamic countries and societies. The Quran itself is divided into 114 chapters, or suras, of different lengths. This first volume of the The Quran Dilemma investigates the first nine of these suras. Each sura contains the text of the Quran complemented with these well-annotated elements: * Introduction, outlining the major subjects * Critical analysis of key verses, focusing on their historical accounts, scientific information, logic, and literary structure. * Variant readings of certain verses, highlighting how the Arabic text has been read by others in ways that differ from the current common readings. Emphasis is given to the variation in the text itself, especially by those who do not agree with the codification made by Uthmans committee * Abrogated verses with analytical comments, explaining how the authority and understanding of such verses are impacted by other verses. (Abrogation is a phenomenon peculiar to the Quran, in which hundreds of verses have been annulled or replaced by other verses.....