Reddit reviews An Abridged Koran: The Reconstructed Historical Koran (The Islamic Trilogy)

> That's how Christianity was not too long ago

this is fundamentally wrong. the three canonical gospels fundamentally contradict each others' narratives at multiple points meaning that anyone who has read the whole thing knows for a fact that they have just read an impression of the truth - not the actual truth (nobody actually knows what the living christ said because nobody wrote it down for over 100 year after his death).

in contrast muslims believe that the koran is the literally perfect literal and complete word of god, sealed and unchangeable for all time.

I understand that you wish to be fair and do good but please educate yourself before making factually incorrect equivalencies in the future.

Dhanyavaad, Fukitol13 Jee !

It is impossible to understand Islam without learning about the Story of Mohammed:

(Hindus tell the Story of Lord Rama in Ramleela every year. Muslims do not do a Muhammad Leela because they want to hide the Story of Mohaamed (The Perfect Man of Islam)

http://perfectmantruth.com/ )

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Please see:

The Story of Mohammed by Harry Richardson

http://thestoryofmohammed.blogspot.com/

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Religion of Peace ? Islam's War Against the World by Gregory Davis

https://www.amazon.com/Religion-Peace-Against-Gregory-published/dp/B00Y2SXI4G/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=religion+of+Peace+gregory+davis&qid=1563211263&s=books&sr=1-1

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Invaluable aid in learning about the Quran:

An Abridged Koran by Bill Warner

https://www.amazon.com/Abridged-Koran-Islamic-Trilogy/dp/0978552849/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=abridged+koran&qid=1563211002&s=books&sr=1-1

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No one will be ale to mislead you about Islam one you know the above.

you should do your own research. if you want an accessible koran i recomend this one.

also - when reading anything about islam you should always keep in mind the koranic principle of abrogation. simply put, when two or more passages in the koran appear to contradict, the latter has absolute priority and completely nullifies all earlier competitors.

this is highly relevant because all the violent stuff is at the end when mohamed gained political power. at the start, when he was powerless, he was quite peaceful. that all changed the moment he gained power. his first act after gaining power was to murder 800 people simply for the act of not believing him to be a prophet. he did this literally immediately ie it was premeditated, politically motivated mass murder.

There's a book called "An Abridged Koran" that supposedly takes out the redundancies and cuts the length by about half. People don't seem to like the author Bill Warner, though and cry bias. I don't know anything about the guy. Might be an interesting read. I have not read it.

https://www.amazon.com/Abridged-Koran-Islamic-Trilogy/dp/0978552849

A Simple Koran

It is rearranged so that the sura are in chronological order for reading straight through and has inserted narrative information to give context.

An Abriged Koran is another version which has less repetition, so it's even easier to read.

I tried posting a link to the best version of the Koran for a Western citizen to read yesterday...met with crickets.

Enjoy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0978552849/