| The Qur'an Contributor(s): McAuliffe, Jane Dammen (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0393927059 ISBN-13: 9780393927054 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $35.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Islam - Koran & Sacred Writings - Religion | Prayerbooks - Islamic |
| Dewey: 297.122 |
| LCCN: 2016049586 |
| Series: Norton Critical Editions |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.6" W x 9.1" (1.15 lbs) 688 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This Norton Critical Edition also includes: - Seven illustrations. - Fifty judiciously selected texts representing the full spectrum of Islamic religious thought that demonstrate the Qur'an's intellectual impact while those from related Near Eastern literatures, including biblical and extra-biblical sources, elucidate the comparative contexts of qur'anic themes and narratives. A concluding section presents the Qur'an as an American book, with a long history and significant influence in the United States. - A Selected Bibliography. |
Contributor Bio(s): McAuliffe, Jane Dammen: - Jane Dammen McAuliffe (Ph.D. University of Toronto), the inaugural director of National and International Outreach at the Library of Congress, is the editor of the six- volume Encyclopaedia of the Quran and the Cambridge Companion to the Quran. She is a former president of Bryn Mawr College and a former dean of arts and sciences at Georgetown University. |