Introduction: My Qurʼan problem -- Part I. Iraq: the cost of ignorance. Secular ignorance -- Religious ignorance -- Fearful ignorance -- Part II. 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.
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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. --
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