A Comprehensive Commentary on the Qur'an [Table of Contents]

A COMPREHENSIVE COMMENTARY ON

THE QURAN:

COMPRISING SALE'S TRANSLATION
AND
PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE,
WITH ADDITIONAL NOTES AND EMENDATIONS
TOGETHER WITH

A Complete Index to the Text, Preliminary Discourse and Notes,

BY THE REV. E. M. WHERRY, M.A.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
TRÜBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL
1882.

CONTENTS

PREFACE
SALE'S PREFACE

SALE'S PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE

SECTION

Of the Arabs before Muhammad; or, as they express it, in the Time of Ignorance; their History, Religion, Learning, and Customs

Of the State of Christianity, particularly of the Eastern Churches, and of Judaism, at the time of Muhammad's Appearance; and of the Methods taken by him for the Establishing his Religion, and the Circumstances which concurred thereto

Of the Quran itself, the Peculiarities of that Book; the Manner of its being Written and Published, and the General Design of it

Of the Doctrines and Positive Precepts of the Quran which relate to Faith and Religious Duties

Of Certain Negative Precepts in the Quran

Of the Institutions of the Quran in Civil Affairs

Of the Months commanded by the Quran to be kept Sacred; and of the setting apart of Friday for the especial Service of God

Of the Principal Sects among the Muhammadans; and of those who have pretended to Prophecy among the Arabs in or since the time of Muhammad

THE QUR'AN.

CHAP.

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