God and Man in the Quran

This is an indispensable text for any serious student of Quran. Besides the fact that Izutsu produced the first Japanese translation of Quran, his in-depth command on classical Arabic and poetry is amazing. This is an original study in which he explores the key Quranic terms in history, while always keeping the basic literary structure of Quranic Weltanschauung in perspective. Izutsu establishes the outline of various dimensions of relationship between God and man, i.e., ontological, ethical and communicative, through pure literary tools of semantic fields and communities of meanings situated therein. The study can help tremendously in establishing how the classical key terms of Quran are considerably deviated (during Islam's sojourn show more into modernity) from the concepts with which these were originally associated. show less