Introducing the Quran: For Today's ReaderAward winning professor John Kaltner's new work offers a general introduction and orientation to the Qur'an. It surveys the origin, structure, contents, study, and use of Islam's sacred text. Offering selective rather than comprehensive coverage, the work allows for discussion and analysis of specific themes and issues of interest to modern readers. Following an introduction that describes and situates how the Qur'an is both studied and experienced,

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Kaltner intersperses his book with numerous photographs and textboxes to emphasize and highlight important elements of the Qur'an

In a small set of friends

and its sincere supplication

Her colorful culinary guides

The accessible introduction and clear notes examine the historical and philosophical background of the work and discuss its significance for modern political thought

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It also has the poem translated into a poem in Farsi in the last appendix

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Phaedrus takes on the nature of rhetoric

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