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It's not that complicated. Get a Quran in your own language with tafseer/commentary notes. Typically that means there will be historical context added to the versets and their adjacence to historical events. There is also a lot of prayer-type shorter chapters, which unless you're a believer hold little relevance. What's important are the historical relationships in Mecca and Medina, the Jewish tribes, the Christian sages of the area, the polytheistic degeneracy and evil that dominated the lands, and the absolutely stunning expansion of Islam in the peninsula and beyond, at first driven by ascetism, self-sacrifice and faith.not a lot of people are invested on reading quran, i can understand that because quran is kinda complicated to understand compared to bible. It also requires a lot of autistic level of knowledge of islamic world in general. Christianity gets this "bible fandom" because there's tons of information about christianity widely spread over time, you don't need to be a christian just to know the lore behind christianity and it's practices.
It's worth reading history beyond that, cause their whole civilization went to shit and infighting in mere decades, brought down by greed and new found wealth. Gone was the ascetism of the desert warrior and his honor, replaced by palaces copied from the Byzantines and Persians, and lives of luxury.
Absolutely fascinating history and clash of civilizations. Worst part is that most Arabs have no fucking idea about their past nor do they care. My friend (medic from Syria) was always so sad about how much the decay has set in his society.
And that was before the war.
Modernity can be a cancer in many ways.