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    Audiobook9 hours

    God in the Qur'an

    Written by Jack Miles

    Narrated by Peter Altschuler

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of God: A Biography, an erudite, hugely informative portrait of the God of Islam, the world's second largest, fastest-growing, and perhaps most tragically misunderstood religion.

    Who is Allah? What makes Him unique? And what does He ask of those who submit to His teachings? In the spirit of his Pulitzer Prize-winning God, a trailblazing "biography" of the protagonist of the Old Testament, and Christ, his brilliant portrait of biblical Jesus, acclaimed religious scholar Jack Miles undertakes to answer these questions with his characteristic perspicacity, intelligence, and command of the subject. Miles depicts a "character" less mercurial than Yahweh, less ready to forgive than Christ, and yet emphatically part of their traditions. The God of the Qur'an revises and perfects: His purpose is to make whole what had been corrupted or lost from the practices and scriptures of the earlier Abrahamic religions. Setting passages from the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Qur'an side by side, Miles illuminates what is unique about Allah, His teachings and His temperament, and in doing so revises that which is false, distorted, or simply absent from our conception of the heart of Islam. Miles writes, "I hope [that by reading this book] you may find it a little easier to trust the Muslim next door, thinking of him as someone whose religion, after all, may not be so wildly unreasonable that someone holding to it could not be a trusted friend."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateNov 13, 2018
    ISBN9780525642862
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      while the forward is slightly ponderous and lengthy the author makes up for this in the body of the book which is very absorbing.
      in the book, Miles observes approximately ten scenes we are all familiar with, from Adam and Eve to Noah to Jesus, which are mentioned both in the Bible as well as in the Koran, and very clearly points out the differences and interprets them convincingly. one does not unfortunately come away with an encompassing understanding of Allah, though perhaps the brevity of the work makes that inevitable.
      I have read the Koran once before and noticed at least some of these differences, and I found Miles's interpretation meaningful.