- Controversial literature, Criticism, interpretation, Qurʼan, Language, style
Islam has worldwide influence, and even in the United States is experiencing a period of unprecedented growth. Its sacred book, the Koran, is the subject of voluminous commentary, yet it rarely receives the kind of objective critical scrutiny that has been applied to the texts of the Bible for over a century.
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- Author
- Ibn Warraq.
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 782
- Publisher
- Prometheus Books
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781573929455
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“Muslims in general have a tendency to disarm any criticisms of Islam and in particular the Koran by asking if the critic has read the Koran in the original Arabic, as though all the difficulties of their sacred text will somehow disappear once the reader has mastered the holy language and has direct experience, aural and visual, of the very words of God, to which no translation can do justice.”
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