How to Read the Quran: A New Guide

For anyone, non-Muslim or Muslim, who wants to know how to approach, read, and understand the text of the Quran, <i>How to Read the Quran</i> offers a compact introduction and readers 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 Quran as a historical text that unfolded over time, in dialogue with its audience, during the career of the Prophet Muhammad.