SCRIPTURAL POLITICS: THE BIBLE AND THE KORAN AS POLITICAL MODELS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA Contemporary Literature & Fiction This book is about a

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SCRIPTURAL POLITICS: THE BIBLE AND THE KORAN AS POLITICAL MODELS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA Contemporary Literature & Fiction This book is about aIt is commonly held that the Koran has more specific rules for organizing society than does the Bible: thus while Islamic activists see the Koran as a model from which they can derive concrete and all encompassing instructions, Christians view the Bible as a source of political visions, images, symbols, and metaphors. The contributors contend that this assumption should be reassessed, given the way the Bible is being interpreted in contemporary