Introduction to the Qur'an

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I.B.Tauris in Association with the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies In this book the distinguished Islamic scholar M. A. Draz, one of the Muslim world's most erudite authorities of this century, sets out the fundamental principles of the Qur'an and its much misunderstood and misquoted teachings on gender and women, polygamy, war, faith, Judaism, Christianity and the many other issues on which the Qur'an pronounces.

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'This valuable introduction to the study of the Qur'an by a prominent Azhar scholar provides a rare glimpse of applying modern textual-historical methodology to the study of Muslim scriptures. M. A. Draz understood the challenges of this critical methodology and attempted to respond to some of the persisting questions about the reliability of the Muslim scriptures and its misapprehended message of peace.' - Abdulaziz Sachedina, Frances Myers Ball Professor of Religious Studies, University of Virginia

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M. A. Draz obtained his doctorate at the Sorbonne in Paris before returning to Cairo, where he became Professor of Islamic Studies at Al Azhar University. By the time of his death, in 1958, he had established himself as one of the world's leading Islamic scholars. His magnum opus, The Moral World of the Qur'an (2008), is also published by I.B.Tauris.