For a professor at SOAS, this book comes off as extremely non-academic and poorly cited. Needless to say, I was a bit disappointed in Abdel Haleem's apologist approach to criticisms of the Qur'an and the always annoying digression of Islam into a lesson on Arabic grammar and syntax. I've always enjoyed books about Islam's spiritual message as my personal belief is the breadth of the faith cannot simply be confined to a book, at least not what appears superficially in the Qur'an.

Muhammad Abdel Haleem is a Professor at the prestigious SOAS so I figured this would be a good book to pick up during Ramadan to delve into the underlying message of the Qur'an (which I honestly find difficult reading as if it's any other English-language chapter book). I've always enjoyed books about Islam's spiritual message as my personal belief is the breadth of the faith cannot simply be confined to a Got through a third of the book, skimmed through the rest based on what I had read so far.

Got through a third of the book, skimmed through the rest based on what I had read so far.

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