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Author:

Wills, Garry, 1934- author.

Title:

What the Qurʼan meant and why it matters / Garry Wills.

Publisher:

Viking,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

226 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Qurʼan--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Islam--Doctrines.
Qurʼan.
Islam--Doctrines.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

My Qurʼan problem -- Iraq: the cost of ignorance -- Secular ignorance -- Religious ignorance -- Fearful ignorance -- The Qurʼan: searching for knowledge -- A desert book -- Conversing with the cosmos -- The perpetual stream of prophets -- Peace to believers -- Zeal (jihad) -- The right path (shariʻah) -- Commerce -- Women: plural marriage -- Women: fighting back -- Women: the veil -- Envoi: Fairness in reading.

ISBN:

1101981024
9781101981023

OCLC:

(OCoLC)973797705

LCCN:

2017025389

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

XHPD657 -- Glenwood Public Library (Glenwood)

SCPC074 -- Hudson Public Library (Hudson)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

RUPC135 -- Manson Public Library (Manson)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

LOAX706 -- Library, Eastern Iowa CC (Muscatine)

BVPE851 -- Nevada Public Library (Nevada)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)