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 is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and the author of The New York Times bestsellers What Jesus Meant, Papal Sin, Why I Am a Catholic, and Why Priests?, among others. He studied for the priesthood, took his doctorate in the classics, and taught ancient and New Testament Greek at Johns Hopkins University. Professor of history emeritus at Northwestern University, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.
"Wills has written perhaps the best introduction to the Quran that
I know of: elegant, insightful, even at times joyful...his
encounter with it is a pleasure to read for anyone as open to
discovery as he is."
--The New York Times "A useful and worthy interpretation that
non-Muslims will find illuminating...Best-selling Wills' stature
will draw many readers."--Booklist "A work of intimate and
charitable interreligious dialogue." -Publishers Weekly
Additional Praise for Garry Wills: "Garry Wills is not only one of
the country's most distinguished intellectuals but also one of its
most provocative, bringing his learning to bear on great questions
of history and contemporary politics." --The New York Times Book
Review "America's greatest public intellectual." --Chicago Tribune
"Garry Wills is simultaneously one of this country's leading public
intellectuals and American Catholicism's most formidable lay
scholar. . . . What makes Wills's contribution unique in a country
whose shelves of religious books these days overflow with vitriol,
bombast and treacle is his singular combination of intellectual
integrity and authentically unsentimental spirituality." --Los
Angeles Times
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