God in the Qur'an - Rilegato

Miles, Jack

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ISBN 10: 0307269574 ISBN 13: 9780307269577

Casa editrice: Knopf, 2018

Riassunto

"Reading this book could be a crucial step out of ignorance at a time of rising Islamophobia." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post

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."

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Recensione

"Mr. Miles's account stands alone, both in its generous openness of mind and in its scrupulous yet lively scholarship." --Eric Ormsby, The Wall Street Journal

"A highly readable, unbiasedly comparative and elegantly insightful study of the Quran . . . Miles gets to the core of the Abrahamic matrix." --Mustafa Akyol, The New York Times Book Review

"[Miles's] newest book represents the crowning achievement of his life's work." --Jonathan Kirsch, Jewish Journal

"[A] highly engaging and resourceful book." --Patrick Ryan, Commonweal

"Keenly interesting, incisive . . . [An] illuminating critique." --Booklist (starred review)

"Miles . . . show[s] his non-Muslim readers that, in many ways, the Islamic God that emerges will be more recognizable to them than Yahweh . . . What Miles inaugurated, the method of theography, remains a brilliant way to try to meet an inimitable protagonist." --Anna Della Subin, Harper's

"Miles's unique talent for writing about religion won him a Pulitzer Prize for God: A Biography, and now the scholar has written a study of Allah . . . Miles's book is a roadmap toward interfaith understanding." --The National Book Review

"Miles is still an engrossing storyteller and a very capable teacher, with the author taking up specific moments or characters or stories and giving them a solid shaking." --Steve Donoghue, Christian Science Monitor

"Reading this book could be a crucial step out of ignorance at a time of rising Islamophobia." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post

"Literary and astute . . . Good reading and an excellent tool for interfaith dialogue." --Kirkus (starred review)

"A valuable and insightful perspective on Islam and the Qur'an." --Library Journal

"In its stunning scope, its forensic analysis, and its lofty message, God in the Qur'an has no predecessor and no competitor among books that scan the horizon of Abrahamic scriptures. At once accessible and challenging, the Biblical/Qur'anic narratives are recounted here with clarity and conviction. The reader--whether religious or non-religious, Jewish, Christian, Muslim or atheist--is offered a new vista into divine-human encounters evoked by one of their most skilled interpreters, Jack Miles. A milestone of literary and theological scholarship." --Bruce Bennett Lawrence, author of The Koran in English - A Biography

"Jack Miles' God in the Qur'an is the culmination of an extraordinary three-part biography--or theograpy, as he has termed it--of the central character in the sacred scriptures of Jews, the Christians, and now the Muslims. In this book, as in the previous books in the trilogy, Miles draws upon rich theological learning that he manages to wear lightly and gracefully. He draws too upon an extraordinary literary sensibility that enables him to illuminate brilliantly those scriptural places where the three monotheisms converge and where they strikingly differ. Above all, he draws upon unfailing moral intelligence, sympathetic imagination, and human decency, qualities that are sorely needed not only in this critically important interfaith project but also in the world whose shadows fall so darkly upon us all." --Stephen Greenblatt, Author of The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve

"In this extraordinary, beautifully written book, Jack Miles continues his exploration of the nature of God in scripture by turning his trained eyes to the Qur'an. To put it simply, this is one of the finest books I have ever read on the Qur'an, and everyone who truly wants to understand Islam and Muslims should read it. --Jane McAuliffe, editor, The Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an

L'autore

JACK MILES pursued religious studies at Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and holds a doctorate in Near Eastern languages from Harvard University. In 2002 he was named a MacArthur Fellow, and he currently serves as Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Religious Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and Senior Fellow for Religion and International Affairs with the Pacific Council on International Policy. In the 2018-2019 academic year, he will serve as Corcoran Visiting Professor of Christian and Jewish Learning at Boston College. His book God: A Biography won a Pulitzer Prize. He served as editor for the Los Angeles Times Book Review and was a member of that newspaper's editorial board. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, among many other publications. He lives in southern California and Boston.

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• Editore: Knopf
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0307269574
• ISBN 13: 9780307269577
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256