America's leading religious scholar and public intellectual
introduces lay readers to the Qur'an with a measured, powerful
reading of the ancient text Garry Wills has spent a lifetime
thinking and writing about Christianity. In What the Qur'an Meant,
Wills invites readers to join him as he embarks on a timely and
necessary reconsideration of the Qur'an, leading us through
perplexing passages with insight and erudition. What does the
Qur'an actually say about veiling women? Does it justify religious
war? There was a time when ordinary Americans did not have to know
much about Islam. That is no longer the case. We blundered into the
longest war in our history without knowing basic facts about the
Islamic civilization with which we were dealing. We are constantly
fed false information about Islam--claims that it is essentially a
religion of violence, that its sacred book is a handbook for
terrorists. There is no way to assess these claims unless we have
at least some knowledge of the Qur'an. In this book Wills, as a
non-Muslim with an open mind, reads the Qur'an with sympathy but
with rigor, trying to discover why other non-Muslims--such as Pope
Francis--find it an inspiring book, worthy to guide people down
through the centuries. There are many traditions that add to and
distort and blunt the actual words of the text. What Wills does
resembles the work of art restorers who clean away accumulated
layers of dust to find the original meaning. He compares the Qur'an
with other sacred books, the Old Testament and the New Testament,
to show many parallels between them. There are also parallel
difficulties of interpretation, which call for patient
exploration--and which offer some thrills of discovery. What the
Qur'an Meant is the opening of a conversation on one of the world's
most practiced religions.
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