The Quran Translation

by Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Paperback, 2002

Status

Available

Call number

297

Collection

Publication

Asir Media (2002), 469 pages

Description

The Koran, the holy scripture of Islam, is the record of Muhammad's oral teaching delivered between the years immediately preceding the Hegira in AD 622 and the Prophet's death in AD 632. Abdullah Yusuf Ali's translation of the Qur'an was first published in 1934 in Lahore, Pakistan. Since 1934 his translation has gone into numerous reprints.

User reviews

LibraryThing member HoraceSPatoot
I was blown away by the scholoarship in this volume. I can't speak to the quality of the translation, and what slaveofOne says makes sense to me, but the number and extent of cross references into the Christian literature were surprising. As well as I can judge such things, this appears to be a
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very good volume for comparative religion purposes.
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LibraryThing member uufnn
This translation by Abdullah Yusuf Ali is the sacred book of the Muslim faith.

ISBN

1931445214 / 9781931445214
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