God is Beautiful

God is Beautiful: The Aesthetic Experience of the Quran

Navid Kermani, Tony Crawford (Translator)

ISBN: 978-0-7456-5167-5

400 pages

February 2015, Polity

Reviewed by Todd Lawson:

J Am Acad Relig (2016)

doi: 10.1093/jaarel/lfw015

First published online: April 7, 2016

"... Though he does not mention it, the pioneering and prolific French scholar of Islamic thought,

Henry Corbin (d. 1978), was the first “Westerner” to have noticed, in several publications,
the literary-cum-existential power of this mode of reading/being and its instrumentality in ... "