Table of Contents

Introduction -- Approaching the Qur'an; Glossary of Arabic Terms; The Early Suras with Commentary; The Sura of the Compassionate; Hearing the Qur'an: The Call to Prayer and Six Suras; Sound, Spirit and Gender in the Qur'an.

Reviews

"Michael Sells is to be congratulated for making a major contribution to religious literature with Approaching the Qur'an, the best version of Muslim scriptures available in English. This is an important and illuminating work, one that will be welcomed by scholars, students, believers, and all who seek to better understand Islam and its sacred scripture." -- Carl Ernst is professor of Islamic studies at the University of North Carolina and author of The Shambhala Guide to Sufism