Those who have some background in Islamic studies will benefit most from this collection, and will be able to locate the essays within the larger context of scholarly debate. These failures are evident, not just in the writings of anti-Muslim polemicists and Muslim extremists, but also entrenched in the classical tradition of exegesis ( tafsir) and Islamic law ( fiqh). Professor Haleem’s objective is to retrieve “the true nature of the Qur’an”, which, he holds, is obscured by “literalism, atomism and the disregard for the context and of what the Qur’an says to explain itself”. The book comprises 13 essays, five of them published here for the first time, which are organised in three categories: teaching, style, and impact. THE author, a professor of Islamic Studies at SOAS University of London, is an authority on Qur’anic studies.
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