Western Quran scholars are interested in looking at the Quran as a text/book (kitab) and what that signifies in terms of Jewish, Christian and European heritage...(Daniel Madigan, Angelika Neuwirth, ...etc)
Eastern scholars have also been interested in the Quran and there have been interesting works on Quran as a "Philosophy" comparable to philosophies of Taoism, Confucianism and Zen Buddhism....
...60% of the Worlds Muslims are in the East and Islam came into the East pretty early....the Han kitab (Qing dynasty work) for example, is an Islamic/Confucian philosophical synthesis ....and there are others...Toshihiko Istuzu has been influential for both Muslim and Non-Muslim scholars of the Quran.....
Eastern scholars have also been interested in the Quran and there have been interesting works on Quran as a "Philosophy" comparable to philosophies of Taoism, Confucianism and Zen Buddhism....
...60% of the Worlds Muslims are in the East and Islam came into the East pretty early....the Han kitab (Qing dynasty work) for example, is an Islamic/Confucian philosophical synthesis ....and there are others...Toshihiko Istuzu has been influential for both Muslim and Non-Muslim scholars of the Quran.....
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