Muzaffar Iqbal

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The Quran, Orientalism, and the Encyclopaedia of the Quran brings into sharp relief established attitudes of Western academia toward theQuran, especially as evidenced in the only extant multi-volumereference work on the Quran in English Brill’s Encyclopaedia of theQuran. The author exposes layers of centuries-old polemical literatureagainst the Quran entrenched in putatively “rigorous and academicscholarship”, and underscores the need for Muslims to producealternate relerence work on the Quran