Approaching the Qurʼán : the early revelations / introduced and translated by Michael Sells.
Approaching the Qur'án is a major event in religious publishing. Professor Michael Sells has captured the complexity, power, and poetry of the early suras of the Qur'án, the sacred scripture of Islam. In this second edition, Sells introduces important new translations of suras and a new pr...
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Full Text (via ProQuest) |
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| Other title: | Qurʼán. Qurʼan. Selections. English. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Arabic |
| Published: |
Ashland, Or. :
White Cloud Press,
2007.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Summary: | Approaching the Qur'án is a major event in religious publishing. Professor Michael Sells has captured the complexity, power, and poetry of the early suras of the Qur'án, the sacred scripture of Islam. In this second edition, Sells introduces important new translations of suras and a new preface that addresses the ongoing controversy over teaching about Islam and the Qur'an in American universities. Approaching the Qur'án presents brilliant translations of the short, hymnic suras associated with the first revelations to the Prophet Muhammad. Most of these early revelations appear at the end of. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 236 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-232) |
| ISBN: | 9780979384066 0979384060 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |