Towards Understanding the Qur'an (eBook)

English Only Edition

Sayyid Abul A'la Mawdudi (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
1408 Seiten
Kube Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-86037-613-2 (ISBN)

Infos

A fresh English rendering of the Qur'an by Zafar Ishaq Ansari with translated notes from Tahfim al-Qur'an by Sayyid Mawdudi.

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An immense understanding of the Quran is offered here, a vast treasure of knowledge and deep insight and a valuable exposition of some social, political, economic and legal teachings of the Quran. But what makes this work unique is that it presents the Quran as a book to be lived by. With thousands of notes, an introduction and comprehensive index.

Autor

lt;div>Sayyid Abul A’la Mawdudi (1903-1979) was a leading Muslim intellectual and a chief architect of the Islamic revival in the twentieth century. In 1941 he founded Jama’at-i-Islami, a political party in Pakistan, which he led until 1972. He authored more than a hundred works on Islam, both popular and scholarly, and his writings have been translated into some forty languages.

Zafar Ishaq Ansari (b.1932) is the Director General of the Islamic Research Institute of the International Islamic University, Islamabad, India. He has an M.A. in Economics from the University of Karachi, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from McGill University, Montreal, Canada.