Understanding the Qur'an: Themes and Style

The tenets of Islam cannot be grasped without a proper understanding of the Qur'an. In this important introduction, now revised and updated for a new paperback edition, Muhammad Abdel Haleem examines the Qur'an's major recurrent themes - life and eternity, marriage and divorce, peace and war, water and its symbolism - and for the first time considers these elements in the context of Qur'anic linguistic style. With a fresh insight into the background of the Qur'an, Professor Haleem examines ...