Status
Available
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Collection
Publication
Beltsville, Md. : Amana Publications, c2002.
Description
The Qur'an is the central religious verbal text of Islam and the book of divine guidance and direction for mankind. This translation by Yusuf Ali includes commentary that explains the context of individual verses.
User reviews
LibraryThing member slaveofOne
Arabic, the most beautiful script in the world! And you get plenty of it here. The "actual" Qur'an is presented along with a translation that flows beautifully for easy reading. Lengthy notes on every page offer commentary. Overall a very good resource. The translation, however, leaves something to
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be desired in terms of faithfulness to the text. It is a very liberalized translation and the notes explain the Surahs anachronistically from a 21st Century Modernist perspective as if Muhammad could have ever meant some of the "meanings" The Meaning of the Holy Qur'an gives it. Not recommended for hardcore, in-depth study. Show Less
LibraryThing member patito-de-hule
This book includes the Qur'an in English and Arabic along with a commentary. As translations go, I like this one. The Qur'an is often elliptical in its expression and this copy glosses in the elipses in parenthesis in the translation. There are also certain words that I often think are translated
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wrong in many editions, but as many as I have checked in this book they are correct. A lot of tears were poured into this work to get it right. I like the translation, and the commentary usually answers plausibly the questions I have. Show Less
Original language
Arabic
Physical description
lxii, 1759 p.; 16 cm
ISBN
0915957779 / 9780915957774
Local notes
Donated by the Canberra Islamic Centre