عنوان

God in the Qur'an /

(Number (ISBN

0307269574

(Number (ISBN

9780307269577

Erroneous ISBN

0525521615

Erroneous ISBN

9780525521617

Number

bc291

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

God in the Qur'an /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Jack Miles.

Edition Statement

First edition.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Alfred A. Knopf,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2018]

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2018

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

241 pages ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

"Jack Miles, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of God: A Biography, now gives us a deeply probing, revelatory portrait of the God of Islam, the world's second largest, fastest-growing, and perhaps most tragically misunderstood religion. Who is Allah? What does He ask of those who submit to His teachings? In the spirit of his two earlier books, God, a trailblazing 'biography' of the protagonist of the Old Testament, and Christ, a brilliant portrait of the biblical Jesus, Miles undertakes to answer these questions with his characteristic sensitivity, perspicacity, and prodigious command of the subject. Miles introduces us to a figure less mercurial than Yahweh, less contrarian than Christ, and yet emphatically of a piece with their tradition. The God of the Qur'an revises and perfects: His purpose is to make whole what had been corrupted or lost from the practices and scriptures of the earlier Abrahamic religions. Miles sets passages from the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Qur'an side by side, including such touchstones as the stories of creation, of Cain and Abel, of Abraham and Isaac, of Moses and the exodus from Egypt, and of the birth of Jesus. In doing so, he illuminates what is unique about Allah, His teachings, and His resolutely merciful temperament, and he thereby reveals that which is false, distorted, or simply absent from the popular conception of the heart of Islam. So, too, do we discover the spiritual and scriptural continuity of the Islamic tradition with those of Judaism and Christianity, and the deep affinities among the three. 'I hope, ' Miles writes, that by reading this book 'you may find it a little easier to trust the Muslim next door as a man or woman whose religion, after all, may not be so wildly unreasonable that someone holding to it could not be a trusted friend.'"--Jacket.

Text of Note

Who is Allah? What makes Him unique? And what does He ask of those who submit to His teachings? The God of the Qur'an revises and perfects: His purpose is to make whole what had been corrupted or lost from the practices and scriptures of the earlier Abrahamic religions. Setting passages from the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Qur'an side by side, Miles illuminates what is unique about Allah, His teachings and His temperament, and in doing so revises that which is false, distorted, or simply absent from our conception of the heart of Islam. -- adapted from jacket.

Qurʼan-- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Qur'an-- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Qurʼan.

God (Islam)

God (Islam)

God (Islam)

RELIGION-- Comparative Religion.

RELIGION-- Islam-- Theology.

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Miles, Jack,1942-

Date of Transaction

20210305064649.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

rda

Electronic name

[Book]

270410

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