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TitleIn Search of the original Koran : The True history of the revealed text / Mondher Sfar ; translated by Emilia Lanier.
AuthorSfar, Mondher.
Call No297.1221 SFA
CollectionNon Fiction
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International Standard Book Number 9781591025214
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 297.1221 SFA
Personal Name Sfar, Mondher.
Title Statement In Search of the original Koran : The True history of the revealed text / Mondher Sfar ; translated by Emilia Lanier.
Imprint New York : Prometheus Books, 2008.
Physical Description 152p.
General Note Includes Index and Bibliographical References.
Summary, Etc. "In this controversial and engaging survey of the origins of Islam, here translated for the first time in English, historian Mondher Sfar charges that there is no historical or even theological basis for the orthodox view that Muhammad or his earliest followers intended the Koran to be treated as the inviolable word of God. On the contrary, the evidence suggests that the Prophet and his disciples did not take a literalist view of the Koranic text. Sfar traces the origins of the book through scholarly interpretations, histories, and religious texts; analyzes the linguistic ambiguities and cultural errors in the Koran and in related literature; and carefully scrutinizes the doctrinal claims that orthodox Muslims herald as articles of divine truth from God. From this, Sfar conclusively shows that the Koran as we know it today is wholly a work of fallible human beings."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term ISLAM - CONTROVERSIAL LITERATURE.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term KORAN - EVIDENCES, AUTHORITY, ETC.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term QUR'AN - EVIDENCES, AUTHORITY, ETC.