The issue focused on some words in the Quran that he says Islam considers offensive to Muslims.


"I do not feel that I have ever encountered anyone who can perform the prayer or perform the prayer ceremony of the Book without understanding it well and thinking of the Quran perfectly," he wrote in the book published in 2006 called Teaching Muslims to Read the Quran.


Critics of his book have also accused him of having taken Islam literally.


Kirmani had also written that he thought the Quran could