The theory, stressed in the Introduction, that the Qur’an is a ‘Book of Guidance’, ‘a guidebook for human life’, is likely to support this mis- understanding. The sincerity of intention is beyond doubt the authors do describe the Qur’an as unique, eternal, purely the Word of Allah. But to see it only as a book and then to disclaim its inclusion in any sense of the word ‘book’ is inconsistent and self-contradictory.
