Jack Miles

The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Islam Jack Miles

Publisher Marketing: Edited by world-renowned scholars under the direction of Pulitzer Prize winner Jack Miles, The Norton Anthology of World Religions provides a flexible library of more than 1,000 primary texts from the world s major religions Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in six portable paperbacks. This anthology unites foundational works the Bhagavad Gita, the Daode jing, the Bible, the Qur an with the writings of scholars, seekers, believers, and skeptics whose voices have kept these religions vital for centuries, allowing instructors to shape a variety of courses. The selections are supported by the meticulously prepared apparatus introductions, explanatory annotations, bibliographies, maps, and glossaries for which Norton Anthologies have set the standard for fifty years. Unprecedented in scope and approach, The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Islam brings together over 100 texts from the Qur an in the seventh century to feminist and pluralist readings of the Qur an in the twenty-first century. The volume features Jack Miles s illuminating General Introduction How the West Learned to Compare Religions as well as Jane Dammen McAuliffe s Submission to God as the Wellspring of a Civilization, a lively primer on the history and core tenets of Islam." Review Citations:

Library Journal 12/01/2014 pg. 130 (EAN 9780393062533, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

New York Times Book Review 12/21/2014 pg. 8 (EAN 9780393062533, Hardcover)

New York Times Book Review 12/28/2014 pg. 22 (EAN 9780393062533, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Miles, Jack Jack Miles (Ph. D. Harvard) is Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies with the University of California at Irvine and Senior Fellow for Religious Affairs with the Pacific Council on International Policy. He spent 1960 70 as a Jesuit seminarian, studying at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem before enrolling at Harvard University, where he completed a Ph. D. in Near Eastern languages in 1971. His book GOD: A Biography won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996, and Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God led to his being named a MacArthur Fellow for 2003-07. Contributor Bio:  McAuliffe, Jane Dammen Jane Dammen McAuliffe (Ph. D. University of Toronto) is the immediate past president of Bryn Mawr College and former Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgetown University. She has also held faculty positions at Emory University and the University of Toronto and is currently a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Library of Congress s John W. Kluge Center. McAuliffe is editor of the six-volume Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an, The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'an, and With Reverence for the Word; and author of Abbasid Authority Affirmed and Qur anic Christians: An Analysis of Classical and Modern Exegesis. She has been a Guggenheim fellow and a president of the American Academy of Religion and is an elected member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Philosophical Society.