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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and religious scholar redirects his lifelong focus on Christianity and takes an open-minded look at the Qur'an, finding the original meaning of the sacred text and showing numerous parallels between it and the Old and New Testaments.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
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...