Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Wills V. Gray
Author: Gray V. Gray
Author: A Treatise on Wills
Author: Thomas JarmanA Treatise on Wills
Author: Thomas JarmanPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368630385
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
The American State Reports
Author: Abraham Clark FreemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
What the Qur'an Meant
Author: Garry WillsPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101981040
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
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 Qur’an. In this book Wills, as a non-Muslim with an open mind, reads the Qur’an with sympathy but with rigor, trying to discover why other non-Muslims—such as Pope Francis—find it an inspiring book, worthy to guide people down through the centuries. There are many traditions that add to and distort and blunt the actual words of the text. What Wills does resembles the work of art restorers who clean away accumulated layers of dust to find the original meaning. He compares the Qur’an with other sacred books, the Old Testament and the New Testament, to show many parallels between them. There are also parallel difficulties of interpretation, which call for patient exploration—and which offer some thrills of discovery. What the Qur’an Meant is the opening of a conversation on one of the world’s most practiced religions.
The Last Lecture
Author: Randy PauschPublisher:
ISBN: 9780340978504
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
The Weekly Notes
Author: Frederick PollockPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 950
Book Description
The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law
Author: David Shephard GarlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1296
Book Description
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