How to Read the Qur'an

<p>For anyone non-Muslim or Muslim who wants to know how to approach read and understand the text of the Qur'an <i>How to Read the Qur'an</i> offers a compact introduction and reader’s guide. Using a chronological reading of the text according to the conclusions of modern scholarship Carl W. Ernst offers a nontheological approach that treats the Qur'an as a historical text that unfolded over time in dialogue with its audience during the career of the Prophet Muhammad.</p>