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A Simple Koran: A Reconstructed Historical Koran (The Islamic Trilogy Book 3) Kindle Edition
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Bill Warner holds a PhD in physics and math, NC State University, 1968. He has been a university professor, businessman, and applied physicist.
He was a Member of the Technical Staff in solid-state physics at the Sarnoff Princeton Laboratories in the area of integrated circuit structures. During the energy crisis of the 80's he founded and ran a company that specialized in energy efficient homes. For eight years he was a professor at Tennessee State University in the Engineering School.
Dr. Warner has had a life-long interest in religion and its effects on history. He has studied the source texts of the major religions for decades. Even before the destruction of the World Trade Center he had predicted the war between Islam and America. The day after 9/11 he decided to make the source texts of Islam available for the average person.
Dr. Warner's training in scientific theory and mathematics shaped how he analyzed Islamic doctrine. The first step was realizing that the Islamic texts had been made deliberately difficult to read and comprehend. A program, the Trilogy Project (see below), was created to strip away the confusion in the texts. It became clear that Islam is not constructed on the same civilizational principles as the rest of the world. Simple statistical methods revealed that dualism and submission were the foundational principles of Islamic doctrine.
--This text refers to the paperback edition.Product details
- Publication date : January 9, 2014
- File size : 5659 KB
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Publisher : CSPI, LLC. (January 9, 2014)
- ASIN : B00E0TDPEA
- Print length : 494 pages
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- Language: : English
- Screen Reader : Supported
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This would be better described as a Kufir's Tafsir...commentary on the koran.
Also many of the koranic verses the author uses in his narrative of muhammed's life are not in chronological order.
He combines several ayah's into one paragraph, which makes it easier to understand, but you lose any ability to cross-reference with a regular koran.
Another point is that the Koran is not really ordered from "largest chapter to smaller chapter". This is a misconception, it was ordered in such a way to facilitate memorization, as not all surahs follow the pattern of largest to smallest.
So I'd recommend buying it for it's commentary and narrative, but don't think you are reading a koran and for that the title and description of the book are misleading.
• Where Islam wants to be
and
• What the only unimpeachable Islamic authority prescribes to get there
All Muslims, including your peaceful Muslim neighbours and radical and brutal Islamic terrorists, recite the same Shahada or profession of Islamic faith but the diverse and conflicting opinions within Islam are tearing it apart and causing horrendous collateral damage. Warner cuts through this confusion by directing his readers’ attention to the only place in Islam where the buck stops being passed: the supreme, perfect and eternal Islamic authority – the three core texts of which the Koran is one.
Whether you love him or loathe him, with his book “A Simple Koran”, Warner has achieved what others, including his critics, have so far failed to achieve.
For all non-Arabic speaking people, Muslims and non-Muslims alike, Warner has provided the tools that any non-Arabic speaking student of Islam needs to make the Koran understandable. Around 1.6 billion inhabitants or about 23% of the population of planet Earth regard the Koran as one of the three perfect and unchanging core texts around which Islam revolves and on which it depends. As a contribution to a discussion and a debate that we need urgently to have, what Warner has written should be read. Regardless of whether you like what you read or not, the effort Warner has made to encourage discussion as a basis for a shared understanding should be applauded – even if what we share ultimately, is an understanding of our differences.
I wanted to make up my own mind about Islam, so I never intended to rely on Warner’s translation and interpretation of the text but I did need to understand how the chapters in conventional translations of the Koran are organised and how they reflect the story of Mohammed’s life and his achievements. I also needed to understand how the Koran, Hadith and Sira relate to each other as I needed also to understand some of the Islamic terminology that would hold no mystery at all for those who have grown up in a Muslim family. Warner gives non-Arabic speaking students of Islam the equivalent of their own seafarer’s map, timepiece, compass and sextant, so that they can navigate, discover and understand the core texts of Islam for themselves without having to rely on intermediaries.
Frankly, given the comments by the person who provided the negative review of “A Simple Koran” here, I was surprised when I cross checked Warner’s translation of Koranic text with my copy of “Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur’an) side by side”. Those three alternative translations are by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Marmaduke Pickthall and Mohammad Habib Shakir. I am given to understand that all three translations are highly respected within mainstream Islam. What surprised me is how closely “A Simple Koran” aligns with the translations by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Marmaduke Pickthall and Mohammad Habib Shakir.
Some of Warner’s detractors claim though, that his understanding of the words is flawed and that the conclusions he reaches and the inferences he draws reflect a bias and an anti Islam agenda. However, what one reads in “A Simple Koran” is consistent with what we see happening around us day by day. Further, what we read and what we experience gels with what we read in the venerated Hadith of Bukhari and Muslim. It is also consistent with the Sira (the biography of Mohammed). As one would expect, all this is, in turn, mirrored on countless Islamic web sites but including three, in particular, that claim to be authoritative:
• Altafsir.com, a web site endorsed by Professor Ahmad Al-Tayyib, Rector Al Azhar University. “It was begun in 2001 by the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, Jordan. Today the website is fully operational in Arabic and English and provides the original Arabic texts of 150 or more books of Qur’anic Commentary, Interpretation and Explanation (tafsir or tafseer), recitation (tajwid) tutorials and hadith collections, and other fields, pertaining to the study of Qur’anic exegesis.”
• Islam.uga.edu, a site which claims to be "for Islam and Islamic Studies Resources – For studying Islam and the Diverse Perspectives of Muslims”
• Inter-islam.org, which describes itself this way “Inter-Islam: Relays the Universal Message brought by all the prophets, from Prophet Adam to Prophet Muhammad (Peace & Blessings be upon them all). Whatever Race, Age, Color or Nationality, Inter-Islam is for You.” In particular on this website, I refer readers of “A Simple Koran” to the section about “Prohibitions”, “Chess and Islam”, “The Female Voice” and “Music and Television”.
Make up your own mind about what you read in “A Simple Koran” and, please accept Warner’s challenge if you believe what he has written there is inaccurate to the point of being deceptive, misleading or biased. In that case, do us all a favour and contribute to our better understanding but do that with specifics and not with emotional accusations or unsubstantiated and unreferenced generalisations.
Take the time and read this book you will never be the same.
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Just the truth on who Mohamed was and what Mohamed did. Dont be afraid be informed.
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