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Title: Just the basics
Review: I recommend you skip this book altogether unless you know virtually nothing about Islam and the Koran. I bought the book because I plan to launch into a reading of the Koran and was hoping to find a detailed guide.The authors' love of Islam and the Koran pervade the book and it is the most endearing part. Unfortunately they deal too much in generalities. And they don't provide some basics. For example the Koran's suras (chapters) are printed in order by descending length. The authors didn't think to provide a more useful order to read the Koran. This is something routinely provided for people studying the Bible.As others have mentioned, the book spends too much time defending Islam. The authors lapse into lengthy defenses of the Koran's sections that permit wife-beating and amputating the hands of thieves.
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