Ivp Academic The qur'an in context: a christian exploration, paperback/mark robert anderson

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For most Westerners, the Qur'an is a deeply foreign book.

Christians who venture within this sacred scripture of Islam encounter a world where echoes of biblical figures and themes resound.

But the Qur'an speaks in accents and forms that defy our expectations.

For it captures an oral recitation of an open-ended drama, one rooted in seventh-century Arabia.

Its context of people, events and ideas strikes us not only as poetically allusive but as enigmatic.

And yet the Qur'an and its contested i.