A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and religious scholar redirects his lifelong focus on Christianity and takes an open-minded look at the Qur'an, finding the original meaning of the sacred text and showing numerous parallels between it and the Old and New Testaments.

My Qur'an problem -- Iraq: the cost of ignorance -- Secular ignorance -- Religious ignorance -- Fearful ignorance -- The Qur'an: searching for knowledge: A desert book -- Conversing with the cosmos -- The perpetual stream of prophets -- Peace to believers -- Zeal (Jihad) -- The right path (shari°ah) -- Commerce -- Women: plural marriage -- Women: fighting back -- Women: the veil.