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UNDERSTANDING THE QUR’AN THEMES AND STYLE pdf

UNDERSTANDING THE QUR’AN THEMES AND STYLE
Book Title Understanding The Quran Themes And Style
Book AuthorMuhammad Abdel Haleem
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Understanding the Qur’an themes and style by Muhammad Abdel Haleem

UNDERSTANDING THE QUR’AN THEMES AND STYLE

Understanding the Qur’an is intended to help the general reader, and also the scholar, understand the Qur’an by combining several approaches: thematic, stylistic, and comparative.

 Many English studies of the Qur’an tend to regard it as nothing more than a jumble of borrowed and rambling thoughts with no sense of direction.

This approach has resulted in a series of unstudied theories which, instead of mapping out the Qur’anic world, have added more confused ideas to an already confused comprehension. The study of themes in the Qur’an is fairly new in English.

 This is surprising, as it is the only approach that can give a balanced view of what the Qur’an says on any given topic.

In 1976, Fazlur Rahman observed that there was an urgent need for ‘an introduction to major themes of the Qur’an’, and his book of this title1 represents an important initiative in using this approach. However, more thematic studies are needed, and the present book is a further step in that direction.

Fazlur Rahman has treated some fundamental themes, such as God, prophethood and revelation, Man as an individual, a man in society, etc.2

 Apart from ‘The Face, Divine and Human in the Qur’an’, all the themes in this book were suggested as topics for public lectures I have been invited to deliver. In Arab studies, Muslim scholars, particularly in recent years, have been discussing contemporary issues and examining what light the Qur’an throws on them.3

Perennial themes such as war, marriage, and tolerance in Islam, are among those which Muslims consider having been seriously misunderstood by Western writers, and they feel that the Qur’an has yet to be explored properly on these themes. In addi

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