Qur'an, Orientalism and the Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an

Muzaffar Iqbal

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9789675062346

 

The Quran, Orientalism, and the Encyclopaedia of the Quran brings into sharp relief established attitudes of Western academia toward the Quran, especially as evidenced in the only extant multi-volume reference work on the Quran in English – Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Quran. The author exposes layers of centuries-old polemical literature against the Quran entrenched in putatively "rigorous and academic scholarship", and underscores the need for Muslims to produce alternate relerence work on the Quran