How to Read the Qur'an

How to Read the Qur''an offers a compact introduction and reader''s guide for anyone, non-Muslim or Muslim, who wants to know how to approach, read, and understand the text of the Qur''an.

Using a chronological reading of the text according to the conclusions of modern scholarship, Carl Ernst offers a nontheological approach that treats the Qur''an as a historical text that unfolded over time, in d...