Since the literary canon is at issue here, I include only those religious, philosophical, historical, and scientific writings that are themselves of great aesthetic interest. I would think that, of all the books that are in this first list, once the reader is conversant with the Bible, Homer, Plato, the Athenian dramatists, and Virgil, the crucial work is the Koran... - Harold Bloom, The Western Canon According to Bloom, without being thoroughly versed in the above list of works—including the Quran—one lacks fundamental knowledge of Western Civilization. And this is a literary scholar whose list of the great books of Western Civilzation—all of which he has read—total around 2,500.
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