The Qur'an
A Biography
Bruce Lawrence is a professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. He is the author of the award-winning Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt against the Modern World, Shattering the Myth: Islam Beyond Violence, and editor of the acclaimed Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden.
Other titles in the Books That Shook the World series:
Available now:
Plato's Republic by Simon Blackburn
Darwin's Origin of Species by Janet Browne
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man by Christopher Hitchens
Adam Smith's On the Wealth of Nations by P. J. O'Rourke
Marx's Das Kapital by Francis Wheen
Forthcoming:
The Bible by Karen Armstrong
Machiavelli's The Prince by Philip Bobbitt
Homer's The Iliad and the Odyssey by Alberto Manguel
Carl von Clausewitz's On War by Hew Strachan
For Dr Ibrahim Abu Nab, who lived the truth of 'seeking
God's purpose every day'. (Qur'an, Chapter 55:29)