What are the best books to read to learn about islam and

that one calle

>>8758884
the Quran

>>8758898
>>8758902
The Quaran is a good place to start, but it doesn't really cover a lot of cultural issues of the Middle East. Maybe search for a history on the region starting around mid 19th-century?

>>8758902
but if he reads the quran then he will realize that Islam is violent, barbaric and devoid of any rhetorical merit

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>>8758956
>but if he reads the quran then he will realize that Islam is violent, barbaric and devoid of any rhetorical merit

infinite jest

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>>8759310
Goddamn why did I even laugh?
On what layer of irony am I now?

>>8759358
This setting totally looks like the scene from the Sherlock Holmes movie with RDJ, minus the green woman of course.

The Study Quran
The Cambridge Companion to the Quran

>>8759364
>Study Quran

I bought this book when it first released, and my parents (who are Sunni Muslims) noticed it and look up one of the authors: Hussein Nasr and saw that he was a Shia Muslim.

There were so mad that I was reading the blasphemy written by him that the disowned me.

I now live by myself. Such is life as a Muslim.

>>8759464
>tfw parents stoned my sister to death for she talked with a Christian man
>tfw parents are now threatening my older brother for defending my little sister
>tfw thinking about running away but if anybody of my village catches me they might set me on fire as a punishment
>tfw I think I'm just going to fuck my goat and go to sleep
such is life as a muslim

>>8759331
are you sure this isn't the "diluted for western secularists" guide to islam

>>8759860
I have no idea, I just have the image saved on my computer.