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Reading the Qur'an : The Contemporary Relevance of the Sacred Text of Islam by Ziauddin Sardar is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Reading the Qur'an : The Contemporary Relevance of the Sacred Text of Islam about?
"I grew up reading the Qur'an on my mother's lap," writes Ziauddin Sardar. "It's an experience I share with most Muslim children. And so it is that our connection to the Qur'an is infused with associations of the warmest and most enduring of human bonds." In Reading the Qur'an, Sardar--one of Europe's leading public intellectuals--laments that for far too many Muslims, the Qur'an he had learned in his mother's lap has become a stick used for ensuring conformity and suppressing dissenting views.
Who reads Reading the Qur'an : The Contemporary Relevance of the Sacred Text of Islam?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Ziauddin Sardar
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199836758
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- History, Islam, Religion
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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