THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright © 2018 by Jack Miles
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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
DE GRUYTER MOUTON: Excerpt from On Understanding Islam by Wilfred C. Smith, copyright © 1981 by Mouton Publishers. Reprinted by permission of De Gruyter Mouton. DAN O’BRIEN: Excerpt of “God’s Brother” by Dan O’Brien, originally published in Scarsdale by Measure Press Inc., Evansville, Indiana, in 2015. Reprinted by permission of Dan O’Brien. ONEwORLD PUBLICATIONS, C/O PLSCLEAR: Excerpt from Sufism: A Beginner’s Guide by William C. Chittick, copyright © 2000 by William C. Chittick. Reprinted by permission of Oneworld Publications, c/o PLSClear. W. W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC.: Excerpt of “It Is Enough to Enter” from Pitch: Poems by Todd Boss. Copyright © 2012 by Todd Boss. Reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Miles, Jack, 1942– author.
Title: God in Qur’an / Jack Miles
Description: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018005105 | ISBN 9780307269577 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780525521617 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: God (Islam) | Qur’an—Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Classification: LCC BP134.G6 M55 2019 | DDC 297.2/11—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018005105
Ebook ISBN 9780525521617
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