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Author Wills, Garry, 1934- author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2017]
©2017

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  297.122 WILLS    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  297.122 WILLS    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  297.1 WILLS    DUE 01-08-20 Billed
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  297.1 WIL    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  297.122 WILLS    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Nonfiction  297.1226 WIL    Lost and Paid
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  297.1226 WIL    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  297.1226 WILLS    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  282.26 WIL    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  297.122 WIL    Check Shelf

Description x, 226 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography 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.
Summary A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and religious scholar redirects his lifelong focus on Christianity and takes open-minded look at the Qur'an, finding the original meaning of the sacred text and showing numerous parallels between it and the Old and New Testaments. -- Publisher's description.
Subject Qurʼan -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Qurʼan. (OCoLC)fst01842877
Islam -- Doctrines.
Islam -- Doctrines. (OCoLC)fst00979787
RELIGION / Islam / History.
RELIGION / Comparative Religion.
RELIGION / Islam / Theology.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Other Form: Online version: Wills, Garry, 1934- author. What the Qurʼan meant and why it matters New York : Viking, 2017 9781101981030
ISBN 9781101981023 (hardcover)
1101981024 (hardcover)
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