Broschiertes Buch

The Qur'an

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Übersetzer: Khalidi, Tarif

Beschreibung

Presents the rules of conduct that remain fundamental to Muslims - the key Islamic values of prayer, fasting, pilgrimage and absolute faith in God, with spiritual guidance on matters of kinship, marriage and family, crime and punishment, rituals, food, warfare and charity.

Autor

Tarif Khalidi was born in Jerusalem in 1938. He received degrees from University College, Oxford, and the University of Chicago, before teaching at the American University of Beirut as a professor in the Department of History from 1970 to 1996. In 1985 he accepted a one-year position as senior research associate at St Anthony's College, Oxford, and from 1991 to 1992 was a visiting overseas scholar at St John's College, Cambridge. In 1996, Tarif Khalidi left Beirut to become the Sir Thomas Adams' Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University, the oldest chair of Arabic in the English-speaking world. He was also Director of the Centre for Middle East and Islamic Studies and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. After six years, Professor Khalidi returned to the American University of Beirut, taking on the Sheikh Zayed Chair in Islamic and Arabic Studies, the first chair to be filled at the University since the civil war.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 144mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9780143105886
• ISBN-10: 0143105884
• Artikelnr.: 26485707