A Christian Reads The Qur An

Author : James Wright
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1984937936

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A Christian Reads the Qur'an by James Wright Pdf

Why would a Christian read the Qur'an? To criticize it? To convert to Islam? Many of my Muslim friends want me to read it because they believe the Qur'an is the most important book in the world. I don't want to criticize the Qur'an. My purpose is to invite others on a quest for truth and respect. Far too often Muslims and Christians live in parallel universes. Reading the Qur'an can help build bridges of respect between one other. The Qur'an says "do not argue with the People of the Book except in the best way" (Surah 29:46 Al-Ankabut). "This can also be very readable to Muslims because it runs smoothly and seems to contain no dogmatic complexities...I like the conclusions especially the ultimate one in chapter 55. I would say, Yes it's perfect for the audience..." Mr. Nadir, Arab author. "I'm sure that this book will touch the hearts of many people and stir their thinking..." Mr. L, Turkish author and scholar. "I congratulate you on having done a thorough evaluation of the Qur'an through the eyes of a Christian. It is a daunting task and your years of working in the Islamic world have given you some good insights and stories to share which do raise many valid questions. These questions should provide some good food for thought for people to think about." Dan Wickwire, author and scholar Middle East.

Author : Mateen Elass
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310298601

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Understanding the Koran by Mateen Elass Pdf

Find out how the Koran resembles the Bible—and the drastic ways in which it differs. Understanding the Koran gives you an essential grasp of Islam's holy book: where it came from, what it teaches, how Muslims view it, and how the Allah of the Koran compares with the God of the Bible. Cherished as the final, perfect revelation of God's will by 1.2 billion Muslims worldwide, the Koran has become a part of American life. What do you know about the holy book that shapes the lives and views of your neighbors and a fifth of the world's population? Written by a pastor who was born to a Muslim father and raised in Saudi Arabia, Understanding the Koran gives you a fascinating, easy-to-understand overview that will show you: Why the background behind the Koran is important to understanding it. How the Koran came into existence. A summary of the main teachings of the Koran, including what it says about Jesus and the crucifixion. Similarities and differences between Muslim and Christian views of God. What the Koran teaches about Jihad and holy war. What the Koran teaches about heaven and hell and the final destinies of the human soul. Giving you an essential grasp of Islam's holy book, Understanding the Koran points you to the one thing that can draw your Muslim friends to Jesus—his love, demonstrated to them through you. Discussion questions make it possible to use this book in group studies.

Author : James R. White
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441260529

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What Every Christian Needs to Know About the Qur'an by James R. White Pdf

A Look Inside the Sacred Book of One of the World's Fastest-Growing Religions What used to be an exotic religion of people halfway around the world is now the belief system of people living across the street. Through fair, contextual use of the Qur'an as the primary source text, apologist James R. White presents Islamic beliefs about Christ, salvation, the Trinity, the afterlife, and other important topics. White shows how the sacred text of Islam differs from the teachings of the Bible in order to help Christians engage in open, honest discussions with Muslims.

Author : Matthew Aaron Bennett
Publisher : Kregel Publications
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780825477560

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The Qur'an and the Christian by Matthew Aaron Bennett Pdf

Understanding Islam's sacred text is integral to understanding your Muslim neighbor Cross-cultural missionary and scholar Matthew Aaron Bennett blends the insights of Islamic believers, secular Qur'an scholars, and missionaries to Muslims, making The Qur'an and the Christian like no other resource for Christian ministry to Muslims. Combining these perspectives in one guide better equips Christians to communicate the biblical gospel to friends and neighbors who are adherents to Islam--both in and out of majority-Muslim cultures. The Qur'an and the Christian addresses issues both simple and profound, such as: 1. How the Qur'an came to be, including Muhammed and the Qur'an's textual precursors 2. The major themes of the Qur'an and how these shape the practice of Islam 3. The presence of Bible characters, Jews, and Christians in the Qur'anic text 4. Whether and how a Christian should read the Qur'an 5. Avoiding miscommunication with Muslims when the Qur'an and Christian teaching seem to overlap This book will help Christians learn how to explore Islamic faith with missiological wisdom and biblical precision. The Qur'an and the Christian will give believers the insight to deepen friendships, promote understanding, and clarify the biblical gospel among Muslim friends and neighbors.

Author : Michael Lodahl
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781587432392

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Claiming Abraham by Michael Lodahl Pdf

Explores how Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other biblical characters are presented in the Qur'an to help Christians better understand Islam.

Author : Raouf Ghattas,Carol Ghattas
Publisher : Kregel Academic
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0825493420

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A Christian Guide to the Qur'an by Raouf Ghattas,Carol Ghattas Pdf

"A Christian guide to the Qur'an will prepare Christians to understand the central messages of the Qur'an in simple terms, and illustrates how knowledge of Islam's sacred text can provide bridges to religious understanding and evangelism."--From back cover

Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781101981030

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What the Qur'an Meant by Garry Wills Pdf

America’s leading religious scholar and public intellectual introduces lay readers to the Qur’an with a measured, powerful reading of the ancient text Garry Wills has spent a lifetime thinking and writing about Christianity. In What the Qur’an Meant, Wills invites readers to join him as he embarks on a timely and necessary reconsideration of the Qur’an, leading us through perplexing passages with insight and erudition. What does the Qur’an actually say about veiling women? Does it justify religious war? There was a time when ordinary Americans did not have to know much about Islam. That is no longer the case. We blundered into the longest war in our history without knowing basic facts about the Islamic civilization with which we were dealing. We are constantly fed false information about Islam—claims that it is essentially a religion of violence, that its sacred book is a handbook for terrorists. There is no way to assess these claims unless we have at least some knowledge of the Qur’an. In this book Wills, as a non-Muslim with an open mind, reads the Qur’an with sympathy but with rigor, trying to discover why other non-Muslims—such as Pope Francis—find it an inspiring book, worthy to guide people down through the centuries. There are many traditions that add to and distort and blunt the actual words of the text. What Wills does resembles the work of art restorers who clean away accumulated layers of dust to find the original meaning. He compares the Qur’an with other sacred books, the Old Testament and the New Testament, to show many parallels between them. There are also parallel difficulties of interpretation, which call for patient exploration—and which offer some thrills of discovery. What the Qur’an Meant is the opening of a conversation on one of the world’s most practiced religions.

Author : Christoph Luxenberg
Publisher : Verlag Hans Schiler
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Koran
ISBN : 9783899300888

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The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran by Christoph Luxenberg Pdf

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Author : Gabriel Said Reynolds
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 1029 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300181326

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The Qur'an and the Bible by Gabriel Said Reynolds Pdf

"While the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament are understood to be related texts, the sacred scripture of Islam, the third Abrahamic faith, has generally been considered separately. Noted religious scholar Gabriel Said Reynolds draws on centuries of Qur'anic and Biblical studies to offer rigorous and revelatory commentary on how these holy books are intrinsically connected."--Dust jacket.

Author : Ziauddin Sardar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190657840

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Reading the Qur'an by Ziauddin Sardar Pdf

"First published in the United Kingdom by C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 2010"--T.p. verso.

Author : Thomas E. Burman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812200225

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Reading the Qur'an in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560 by Thomas E. Burman Pdf

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Most of what we know about attitudes toward Islam in the medieval and early modern West has been based on polemical treatises against Islam written by Christian scholars preoccupied with defending their own faith and attacking the doctrines of others. Christian readings of the Qur'an have in consequence typically been depicted as tedious and one-dimensional exercises in anti-Islamic hostility. In Reading the Qur'an in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560, Thomas E. Burman looks instead to a different set of sources: the Latin translations of the Qur'an made by European scholars and the manuscripts and early printed books in which these translations circulated. Using these largely unexplored materials, Burman argues that the reading of the Qur'an in Western Europe was much more complex. While their reading efforts were certainly often focused on attacking Islam, scholars of the period turned out to be equally interested in a whole range of grammatical, lexical, and interpretive problems presented by the text. Indeed, these two approaches were interconnected: attacking the Qur'an often required sophisticated explorations of difficult Arabic grammatical problems. Furthermore, while most readers explicitly denounced the Qur'an as a fraud, translations of the book are sometimes inserted into the standard manuscript format of Christian Bibles and other prestigious Latin texts (small, centered blocks of text surrounded by commentary) or in manuscripts embellished with beautiful decorated initials and elegant calligraphy for the pleasure of wealthy collectors. Addressing Christian-Muslim relations generally, as well as the histories of reading and the book, Burman offers a much fuller picture of how Europeans read the sacred text of Islam than we have previously had.

Author : Daniel J Crowther,Shirin Shafaie,Ida Glaser,Shabbir Akhtar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351605045

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Reading the Bible in Islamic Context by Daniel J Crowther,Shirin Shafaie,Ida Glaser,Shabbir Akhtar Pdf

In the current political and social climate, there is increasing demand for a deeper understanding of Muslims, the Qur’an and Islam, as well as a keen demand among Muslim scholars to explore ways of engaging with Christians theologically, culturally, and socially. This book explores the ways in which an awareness of Islam and the Qur’an can change the way in which the Bible is read. The contributors come from both Muslim and Christian backgrounds, bring various levels of commitment to the Qur’an and the Bible as Scripture, and often have significantly different perspectives. The first section of the book contains chapters that compare the report of an event in the Bible with a report of the same event in the Qur’an. The second section addresses Muslim readings of the Bible and biblical tradition and looks at how Muslims might regard the Bible - Can they recognise it as Scripture? If so, what does that mean, and how does it relate to the Qur’an as Scripture? Similarly, how might Christian readers regard the Qur’an? The final section explores different analogies for understanding the Bible in relation to the Qur’an. The book concludes with a reflection upon the particular challenges that await Muslim scholars who seek to respond to Jewish and Christian understandings of the Jewish and Christian scriptures. A pioneering venture into intertextual reading, this book has important implications for relationships between Christians and Muslims. It will be of significant value to scholars of both Biblical and Qur’anic Studies, as well as any Muslim seeking to deepen their understanding of the Bible, and any Christian looking to transform the way in which they read the Bible.

Author : Kurt Beutler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3957760062

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Pearls in the Quran by Kurt Beutler Pdf

"Christ" and "Quran" - these don't seem to fit together. and yet the Quran says a great deal about Jesus, the Bible, and Christians. This book tries to build bridges. The reader will chuckle at the original ideas and interpretations of some Quranic verses, and it becomes clear that this book was not written by an academic. These thoughts evolved throughout the course of many years of discussions with Muslims friends. Love and forgiveness are emphasized on these pages. It is a book for everyone who is sick of senseless religious wars and hateful speech. Whether complete reconsiliation is possible and both religions can be entirely subsumed into one is clarified in the final section.

Author : Jack Miles
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780525521617

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God in the Qur'an by Jack Miles Pdf

Who is Allah? What does He ask of those who submit to His teachings? Pulitzer Prize-winner Jacke Miles gives us a deeply probing, revelatory portrait of the world’s second largest, fastest-growing and perhaps most tragically misunderstood religion. In doing so, Miles illuminates what is unique about Allah, His teachings, and His resolutely merciful temperament, and he thereby reveals that which is false, distorted, or simply absent from the popular conception of the heart of Islam. So, too, does Miles uncover the spiritual and scriptural continuity of the Islamic tradition with those of Judaism and Christianity, and the deep affinities among the three by setting passages from the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Qur’an side by side. In the spirit of his two previous books, God and Christ, and with his characteristic sensitivity, perspicacity and prodigious command of the subject, Miles calls for us all to read another’s scriptures with the same understanding and accommodating eye that we turn upon our own.

Author : Aḥmad Zakī Manṣūr Ḥammād
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Qurʼan
ISBN : 097878491X

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The Gracious Quran by Aḥmad Zakī Manṣūr Ḥammād Pdf