This important volume of the Norton Anthology, edited by world-renowned scholars, offers a portable library with over 1,000 primary texts from the major religions of the world. To assist readers in encountering wonderfully unfamiliar texts with pleasure, accessible introductions, headings, notes, glossaries with pronunciations, maps, illustrations, and timelines are provided.

For readers of any religion or those without religion, the Norton Anthology of World Religions opens new worlds that, as Miles writes, invite us "to see others with a measure of openness, empathy, and goodwill..." Incomprehensible in its scope and approach, the Norton Anthology of World Religions: Islam gathers over 100 texts from the seventh-century Quran to feminist and polyphonic readings of the Quran in the twenty-first century.

The volume includes the illuminating General Introduction by Jack Miles—“How the West Learned to Compare Religions”—as well as “Submission to God as the Source of a Civilization” by Jane Dammen McAuliffe, a vibrant introduction to the history and core principles of Islam.

Pages: 720, Year of Publication: 0219, Dimensions: 15.2x15.2cm