is this worth reading or should I read Arabian Nights instead?

>>8820826
its the manga copy

It's repetitive and it's not really that interesting. Most of the prophet stories are similar to the ones in the Bible. Also, Mohamed needed an editor.

you should read both

Read it before anything Arabic

>>8820821
>is this worth reading
Yes.
>should I read Arabian Nights instead?
Yes.

>>8820821
read "Speech of the Birds" by Farid ud-Din instead.

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>>8820839

>not waiting til you die to read the Koran so you can read the original in the afterlife
Fucking plebs I swear

>>8820821
Like it more than the bible desu.

>>8820821
Is there an annotated version fit for the first time English language reader, the way the Oxford Annotated Bible is? One that provides an introduction to each chapters so that I can get an idea before I dive in?

>>8820839
Kek

>>8823536
The Study Quran

>>8823536
>>8823599
>The Study Quran
sure, if he wants to get a perennialist take on the Quran.

http://www.academia.edu/24894666/The_Study_Quran_Review_Haddad_02Mar2016_MWBR

>>8820821
The cool thing about it is that all scientific ideas in the book have actually been proven recently and there could be more in this book that we don't know yet

>>8825016
Like the stuff copied from the Greeks? Including the inaccurate scientific ideas?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XLg-SRGMNk&t=7s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8A9DEeglXI

>>8820899
This is the only answer.

>>8821375
>Islam quite literally means "submission"
What did he mean by this

>>8821668
He said it's not Western slave morality, not not Middle Eastern slave morality.

>>8825171
Islam literally means submission, as in submission to Allah.

ITT: /pol/io OP samefags and baits /lit/ yet again

>>8821375
>how Westerners believe that it "contradicts itself")
Even muslim scholars know it contradicts itself, Ahmed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naskh_(tafsir)

>>8820821
it's worth reading only in arabic language
the translated language aren't well made and koran is close to poetry so it's better in its orignial language

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>>8825179
>speaks arabic
>prays towards arabic land
>adopts arabic pre-islamic traditions

More like submission to arabs.

>>8821375
You need to read the study Quran then

>>8825340
>the study Quran
see >>8824995

>>8824995
Despite its flaws it is still the best Quran available in English.

also nearly every sect of Islam is shit

>>8825331
>that pic
That's not a mainstream view.

>>8825358
>implying perrenialism hasn't been a part of Islam since the beginning

There is no more influential we wuz than Muhammad, who insisted from the start that every prophet and Christ were Muslim. He ain't bullshittin!

>>8825365
>Despite its flaws it is still the best Quran available in English.
pic related is much more in line with Muslim Orthodoxy.

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>>8825383
forgot pic

>>8825383
Yeah, Muslim orthodoxy is shit. No thanks Abdullah

>>8825381
>There is no more influential we wuz than Muhammad, who insisted from the start that every prophet and Christ were Muslim.
What that meant is that other religions such as Christianity and Judaism were corruptions of Islamic teachings. Not that every religion is valid.

>>8825395
it's more accurate than the modern perrenialist interpretation pushed by Nasr.

>>8825396
Perrenialism as a philosophy doesn't necessarily mean that every religion is correct, but that they share a single universal truth, but Nasr definitely leans towards a more expansive view, I'll admit.

>>8825401
Yeah, Orthodoxy is shit. It needs to update itself like Christianity did.

>>8820826
Because it's a backwards religion

>>8821375
>Also, the Quran is untranslatable. You NEED to read it in Arabic to truly understand the teachings of Muhammad
Values so holy that they can't be spread through other languages? Another reason why Islam is bullshit.