Reflections on the Qur'an: Understanding Surahs Al-Fatihah and Al-Baqarah

This book is an effort to understand the Qur’an with a modern mind. It provides an indepth and insightful study of Surahs al-Fatihah and al-Baqarah, with each surah being divided into several sections with study notes or reflections of different lengths.

Irfan Ahmad Khan graduated in Islamic Sciences and Classical Arabic from Rampur, India and received his M.A. in Philosophy from AMU (1958) where he taught Western Philosophy, and Theology (1958 – 1973). In 1974, he moved to USA, where he obtained Ph.D. in Philosophy from University of Illinois at Chicago and taught Western and Islamic Philosophy at various institutions in USA. During the last fifty years Dr. Khan’s reflections upon Qur’anic ayat continued with his own involvement with the problems of the humanity and the Ummah. And mainly during the last thirty years he has been working with the graduates of the Western universities in developing a methodology of understanding the Qur’an.