For most Westerners, the Qur\'an is a deeply foreign book.
And yet the Qur\'an and its contested i.
Its context of people, events and ideas strikes us not only as poetically allusive but as enigmatic.
For it captures an oral recitation of an open-ended drama, one rooted in seventh-century Arabia.
But the Qur\'an speaks in accents and forms that defy our expectations.
Christians who venture within this sacred scripture of Islam encounter a world where echoes of biblical figures and themes resound.
For most Westerners, the Qur\'an is a deeply foreign book