The Koran

Front Cover
Alan Jones
Orion, Dec 30, 2011 - Religion - 544 pages

A new edition of one of the world's most important and influential books

The Koran, the holy scripture of Islam, is the record of Muhammad's oral teaching delivered between the years immediately preceding the Hegira in AD 622 and the Prophet's death in AD 632.

It has exerted untold influence upon the history of mankind. Apart from its specifically religious content, inspiring the triumphant arms of Islam throughout vast areas of Asia, Africa and southern Europe, it was the starting point of a new literary and philosophical movement which powerfully affected the most cultivated minds among both Christians and Jews in the Middle Ages; and the movement inaugurated has resulted in some of the finest products of genius and learning.

Alan Jones has restored the traditional ordering of the Suras, enabling the reader to trace the development of the Prophet's mind from the early flush of inspiration to his later roles of warrior, politician and founder of an empire.

 

Contents

Cover Title Page Note on the Editor
Foreword Introduction Map Note ontheText Suggestions forFurther Reading THE KORAN
Sura 1
The Spoils
Immunity
Jonah Peace be on Him Sura 11 Houd Sura 12 Joseph Peace beon Him Sura 13 Thunder
Abraham On Whom be Peace
Hedjr Sura 16 The Bee Sura 17The NightJourney
The Event Sura 57 Iron Sura 58 She Who Pleaded Sura 59The Emigration Sura 60She Who is Tried
44
Battle Array Sura 62 The Assembly Sura 63The Hypocrites Sura 64 Mutual Deceit Sura 65 Divorce Sura 66 The Forbidding Sura 67 The Kingdom
54
Sura 68The Pen Sura 69The Inevitable Sura 70 The Steps or Ascents Sura 71 Noah Sura 72 Djinn Sura 73The Enfolded Sura 74 The Enwrapped S...
71
Sura 77The Sent
73
Sura 78The News Sura 79 Those Who Drag Forth Sura 80 He Frowned
75
The Folded
81
The Cleaving
82
Those Who Stint
83

Sura 18The Cave
Mary Sura 20 Ta Ha Sura 21 The Prophets
Sura 22The Pilgrimage
The Believers
Light Sura 25 Al Furkan Sura 26The Poets
Sura 27The Ant Sura 28 The Story Sura 29 The Spider Sura 30 The Greeks
Lokman
Adoration
The Confederates
Saba Sura 35 The Creator orthe Angels Sura 36Ya Sin Sura 37The Ranks Sura 38 Sad Sura 39 The Troops Sura 40 The Believer
Sura 41The Made Plain Sura 42 Counsel Sura 43 Ornaments of Sura 44 Smoke Gold Sura 45The Kneeling Sura 46Al Ahkaf Sura 47 Muhammad ...
20
Sura 50Kaf Sura 51The Scattering Sura 52 The Mountain Sura 53 The Star Sura 54The Moon
30
Sura 55The Merciful
32
The Splitting Asunder Sura 85 The Starry Sura 86The NightComer
86
Sura 87The Most High Sura 88 The Overshadowing Sura 89 The Daybreak Sura 90 The Soil
90
Sura 91The Sun Sura 92The Night Sura 93 The Brightness Sura 94 The Opening Sura 95The Fig Sura 96Clots Of Blood Sura 97 Power Sura 98 C...
99
Sura 100 The Chargers Sura 101 The Blow Sura 102 Desire Sura 103 The Afternoon Sura 104 The Backbiter
104
Sura 105 The Elephant
105
Sura 106 The Koreisch Sura 107 Religion Sura 108 The Abundance
108
Sura 109 Unbelievers
109
Sura 110 Help
110
Notes
115
Index
142
About the Author Copyright
159
Copyright

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About the author (2011)

Alan Jones is a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. After studying Classics, Arabic and Persian at Cambridge he moved to Oxford to study Turkish. He has taught Arabic and Isamic Studies there since 1957. He is a specialist in pre-Islamic and early Islamic Arabic and in Quranic Studies, and, at a much later period, in the literature of Muslim Spain. He is at present writing a book on the pre-Islamic background of the Qur'an.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Koran
EditorAlan Jones
PublisherOrion, 2011
ISBN1780222572, 9781780222578
Length544 pages
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