A Simple Koran: Readable and Understandable

by Bill Warner (Editor), Cspi

The standard Koran is arranged by length of chapter. The longest chapter is at the beginning and the shortest chapters are at the end. This makes it confusing and hard to understand. Now you can read and understand A SIMPLE KORAN. The words of the Koran are woven back into the historical life of Mohammed. In actual fact, the Koran did unfold over the course of Mohammed's life. A SIMPLE KORAN recreates the historical order of the Koran of Mohammed's day. The first chapters start with Mohammed's first recitations and the last chapters are those he recited before he died. Mohammed's life gives the Koran clarity and meaning. It becomes a powerful, epic story. Read A SIMPLE KORAN. It will change the way you see the world's events.

Genres: Islam, Religion, Nonfiction

418 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2006

About the author

Bill Warner is the pen name of Bill French (born 1941, United States), a writer, critic of Islam, and the founder of the Center for the Study of Political Islam. He is a former Tennessee State University physics professor. He is listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as part of a core group of 10 Anti-Muslim hard-liners.

Warner has said that his focus is on the political aspects of Islamic doctrine related to kafirs (non-Muslims) rather than on the beliefs of contemporary Muslims. He differentiates Islam as a religion and what he refers to as Political Islam. Warner defines "political Islam," which he also calls Islamism, "as a belief that Islam should control society and politics, not simply personal religious life."

Reviews

[AJ Shreim · Rating 2 out of 5]

The essence of this book is the fact that the author is on a mission. The weakness is that the author has used a very bad word translation of the Quran loosing both the richness of the Arabic language as well as the meaning.
The statistics are interesting but they have not been qualified or taken in their context.

The strength is the story telling setting that the author had used.

I suggest that a scholar take this book and rewrite it subjectively while reviewing the original Book in Arabic and taking the meaning from different explanations.

[Susan · Rating 5 out of 5]

An easy to read book that helps the non-Arabic speaker decipher the Koran. The same author has written The Abridged Koran which is shorter and even easier to read.