article_snippet.sent: Books about Islam are flying off the shelves and selling out in France after the deadly Charlie Hebdo terror attacks in Paris raised questions about the religion.
article_snippet.sent: It comes as a special magazine supplement from Philosphie which focused in the Koran also saw a spike in sales following the attacks on the French satirical magazine and a Jewish supermarket, which left 17 dead.
article_snippet.sent: Some of the books on sale at the 'Librairie de l'Orient' bookstore on Islam and interpretations of the Koran, which are popular in France .
article_snippet.sent: Some of the books on sale at the 'Librairie de l'Orient' bookstore on Islam and interpretations of the Koran, which are popular in France, said Some of the books on sale at the 'Librairie de l'Orient' bookstore on Islam and interpretations of the Koran, which are popular in France sales have shot up by 30 per cent since the attacks.
article_snippet.sent: Some of the books on sale at the 'Librairie de l'Orient' bookstore on Islam and interpretations of the Koran, which are popular in France said: 'The same happened after the September 11 attacks in 2001. '
article_snippet.sent: Experts believe people are buying the books and magazines, because people want a better understanding of the religion some terror groups claim to represent, so that people can make up people own minds.
article_snippet.sent: Yvon Gilabert, who runs a bookshop in Nantes, western France, explained: 'Mr Mansour came to buy a copy of the Koran, because Mr Mansour wanted to understand for Mr Mansour whether or not (Islam) is violent religion.'
article_snippet.sent: Meanwhile, Patrice Besnard, a regular at a Paris bookshop specialising in religions dded: 'I think the French National Union of Bookshops have to know how to see past the fundamentalism, in order to see what religions have to offer.'
article_snippet.sent: But Mr Mansour warned about people diving into reading the Koran 'unaccompanied' and jumping to conclusions on its highly poetic text.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Mansour also added that Mr Mansour company has withdrawn several books that offered 'too literal' an interpretation of Islam from Mr Mansour catalogue.
article_snippet.sent: Publishers such as Mr Mansour were already selling more books on Islam even before the Paris terror attacks since the brutality of ISIS created shock waves since ISIS emergence in 2013.
article_snippet.sent: A luxury edition of the Koran is displayed at a Paris bookstore.
article_snippet.sent: And at France's largest book fair in March, a big seller for Le Cerf imprint, which is run by the Catholic Dominican order was 'A Christian Reads
article_snippet.sent: The Koran', a reprint of a book first published in 1984.
article_snippet.sent: At the fair, US publisher Columbia University Press also snapped up the rights to 'The Silent Koran, the Talking Koran' by Mohammed Ali Amir-Moezzi, as well as the paperback launch of rapper Abd al Malik's bestseller 'May Allah Bless France.'
article_snippet.sent: Also featuring highly at the event was Eric Zemmour's book The French Suicide, which has been accused of Islamophobia as well as 'Plea for Fraternity' by the Muslim philosopher Abdennour Bidar.