Download or read book Islam and Literalism written by Robert Gleave and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigatigation of the phenomenon of literal interpretation in Islam, which proposes the literal meaning as the only acceptable one. It focuses on the tradition of Muslim legal writings, and also makes reference to Quranic exegesis (tafsir) and Arabi