- Warraq, Ibn [pseud.] ed. What the Koran Really
Says. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books,
2002. ISBN 1-57392-945-X.
- This is a survey and reader of Western Koranic studies of
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A wide variety of mutually
conflicting interpretations are presented and no conclusions are drawn.
The degree of detail may be more than some readers have bargained for:
thirty-five pages (pp. 436–464, 472–479) discuss a single
word. For a scholarly text there are a surprising number
of typographical errors, many of which would have been found by a
spelling checker.
April 2003 