This book might as well have been entitled in a more general way

"Semantics of the Qur'an" but for the fact the main part of the present

study is almost extensively concerned with the problem of the personal

relation between God and man in the Qur'anic worldview. Coming from the

pen of the first serious Asian non-Muslim scholar and a Japanese, this

book is now available in a new improved edition.



Book Review by Fazlur Rahman --



"This book, which constitutes volume V of the series Studies in the

Humanities and Social Relations of Keio University is written by

Professor Toshihiko Izutsu and has emerged out of his lectures at McGill

University, Montreal in the spring of 1962 and 1963. Actually, I

participated in a seminar given by Dr. Izutsu at McGill during the

1960-61 session where he had tried out some of the ideas contained in

this book. These seem to have matured over the years and this

constitutes not only a welcome addition to the existing literature on

Islam but introduces a new approach to the understanding of

Islam-particularly by non-Muslims-the linguistic approach. The Arabic

mistakes that appear in the book (some of which must be sheer misprints

which are also frequent in the book) must not lead the reader to accuse

the writer of inadequacy in Arabic which he knows and speaks fluently.

Nor is this Dr. Izutsu's first work on the Qur'an, he has already given

us a work on the ethical concepts of the Holy Book

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