The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Islam: Islam, Paperback

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The Norton Anthology of World Religions offers a beautifully designed library of more than 1, 000 primary texts, accompanied by headnotes, annotations, glossaries, maps, illustrations, chronologies, and a dazzling general introduction by Pulitzer Prize winner Jack Miles. This collection ``will unsettle some current certainties about the nature of faith and, in so doing, may help its readers arrive at a nuanced and accurate perception of our predicament in this dangerously polarized world`` (Karen Armstrong, New York Times). Unprecedented in scope and approach, The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Islam brings together over 100 texts from the Qur'an in the seventh century to feminist and pluralist readings of the Qur'an in the twenty-first century. The volume features Jack Miles's illuminating General Introduction--``How the West Learned to Compare Religions``--as well as Jane Dammen Mc Auliffe's ``Submission to God as the Wellspring of a Civilization,`` a lively primer on the history and core tenets of Islam.