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God in the Qur'an (God in Three Classic Scriptures)
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About God In The Qur'an
Product Description Who is Allah? What does He ask of those who submit to His teachings? Pulitzer Prize-winner Jacke Miles gives us a deeply probing, revelatory portrait of the world’s second largest, fastest-growing and perhaps most tragically misunderstood religion. In doing so, Miles illuminates what is unique about Allah, His teachings, and His resolutely merciful temperament, and he thereby reveals that which is false, distorted, or simply absent from the popular conception of the heart of Islam. So, too, does Miles uncover the spiritual and scriptural continuity of the Islamic tradition with those of Judaism and Christianity, and the deep affinities among the three by setting passages from the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Qur’an side by side. In the spirit of his two previous books, God and Christ, and with his characteristic sensitivity, perspicacity and prodigious command of the subject, Miles calls for us all to read another’s scriptures with the same understanding and accommodating eye that we turn upon our own. Review “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 mo
