Book by a Professor at the University of Basrah on the Holy Quran and Italian Orientalism Has Been Published
Dr. Abbas Qasim Atiya of the College of Education for Women has published a book entitled "The Holy Quran and Italian Orientalism: Reality and Ideological Orientation."
The book addresses a number of important issues in Italian Orientalism, discussing the Italian Orientalists' perspective on revelation and the source of the Holy Quran, as well as the history of printing the Holy Quran in Italy and its translation by Orientalists.
The book also examines and discusses their interpretations of the Quranic text and their analyses of the meanings and implications of the names of the surahs and verses in light of their intellectual perspectives.
The book was printed and published by the Islamic Center for Strategic Studies at the Holy Abbasid Shrine as part of the "Quran in Western Studies" series.
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