Download or read book How to Read the Qur'an written by Carl W. Ernst and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone, non-Muslim or Muslim, who wants to know how to approach, read, and understand the text of the Qur'an, How to Read the Qur'an offers a compact introduction and reader's 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 Qur'an as a historical text that unfolded over time, in dialogue with its audience, during the career of the Prophet Muhammad.