Get Book What the Qur'an Meant: And Why It Matters
By Garry Wills
America's leading religious scholar and public intellectual introduces lay readers to
the Qur'an with a measured, powerful reading of the ancient text Garry Wills has
spent a lifetime thinking and writing about Christianity. In What the Qur'an Meant,
Wills invites readers to join him as he embarks on a timely and necessary
reconsideration of the Qur'an, leading us through perplexing passages with insight
and erudition. What does the Qur'an actually say about veiling women? Does it justify
religious war? There was a time when ordinary Americans did not have to know much
about Islam. That is no longer the case. We blundered into the longest war in our
history without knowing basic facts about the Islamic civilization with which we were
dealing. We are constantly fed false information about Islam--claims that it is
essentially a religion of violence, that its sacred book is a handbook for terrorists.
There is no way to assess these claims unless we have at least some knowledge of the
