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Reading the Q'Uran (Paperback)
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Reading the Q'Uran (Paperback)
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"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. Indeed, some
find in the Qur'an justification for misogyny, validation for
hatred of others, an obsession with dress and mindless ritual,
rules for running modern states. Arguing passionately but
reasonably against these trends, Sardar speaks out for a more open,
less doctrinaire approach to reading the Qur'an. He contends that
the Qur'an is not fixed in stone for all time, but a dynamic text
which every generation must encounter anew, and whose relevance and
implications for our time we have yet to fully discover. The words
of the Qur'an imply movement: the religious life, it tells us, is
not about standing still but always striving to make our life, our
society, the entire world around us a better place for everyone.
Sardar explores the Qur'an from a variety of perspectives, from
traditional exegesis to hermeneutics, critical theory, and cultural
analysis, drawing fresh and contemporary lessons from the Sacred
Text. He also examines what the Qur'an says about such contemporary
topics as power and politics, rights of women, suicide, domestic
violence, sex, homosexuality, the veil, freedom of expression, and
evolution. Ziauddin Sardar opens a new window on this remarkable
Sacred Text, in a book that will engage all devout Muslims and will
interest anyone curious about the Qur'an and Islam today.
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