SELCT QUR'ĀN TRANSLATIONS, CONCORDANCES AND MISCELLANY.

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IN PROGRESS 2006-7

Stephen Lambden (Ohio Univesity), Athens, Ohio.

 

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URLs:

Kidwai, A. R.,

• Translating the Untranslatable: A Survey of English Translations of the Quran : http://soundvision.com/Info/quran/english.asp

Abou Sheishaa, Mohamed Ali Mohamed

• `Muslim Discourse in The Early Twentieth Century on The Translation of The Qur’an.' in Journal of the Society for Qur’anic Studies, Number 2, Volume 1, 2001.
•  URL=  [Published: 07.12.2003]  http://www.quranicstudies.com/article39.html

  “The Translation of the Qur’an: A Study of A Fatwa by Rashid Rida” in Journal of the Society for Qur’anic Studies, no. 1, vol. 1, 2001

Abou Sheishaa, M.,

• The translation of the Quran: A selective bibliography' See  

http://www.quran.org.uk/ieb_quran_bibography.html

Tadrus, Fawzi M.

• The Holy Koran in the Library of Congress : a bibliography compiled by Fawzi Mikhail Tadros. Washington : Library of Congress : U.S. G. P. O., Supt. of Docs., 1993.
   

 

SELECT QUR'AN TRANSLATIONS

Abel, Armand.

•  Le Coran. Bruxelles, Office de publicit.., 1951.

Abdel Halim, Muhammad, A. S.

• The Qur'an: A New Translation (with introduction), Oxford University Press 2004 (465pp.) = ISBN 0192805487

Abdul-Raof, Hussein

• Qur'an Translation: Discourse, Texture and Exegesis Hussein Abdul-Raof. Curzon Press, 2002 = ISBN 0700712275
• Qur'an: A New Translation. Starlatch Press, 2004 = ISBN 192969444X (301 pp.)
   

 

Ahmed Ali,

• al-Qur'an : a contemporary translation by Ahmed Ali. Rev. definitive ed. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1988, c1984.
• Al-Qur'an: A Contemporary Translation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.

 Pooya Yazdi, Agha + S. V. Ali, and S. V. Ahmed Ali

 

• Holy Qur'an: Arabic Text, with English Translation and Commentary S. V. Ali, Agha Pooya Yazdi, S. V. Ahmed Ali (Editor)  (1962 pp.) 2004 = ISBN 187940219X

 

Arberry, Arthur J. (d. 1969 CE).

•  Arberry, Arthur J., trans., The Koran Interpreted. New York: Macmillan Co., 1955.
• The Koran Interpreted. London: Oxford University Press, 1964.
• The Koran Interpreted, The World's Classics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964, 1982, 1985 [repr.].
• The Koran interpreted : a translation  Arthur J. Arberry ; combined in one volume. New York, N.Y. : Collier Books : Macmillan Pub. Co.,  1986..

Bell, Richard (1876-1952 CE).

See the helpful review notice by Todd Lawon in JNES vol.56 no.1 (January 1997), 53-54.

• The Qur'an, translated, with a critical re-arrangement of the Surahs by Richard Bell ... Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1937-
• The Quran. Translated, with a critical re-arrangement of the Surahs. 2 vols. Edinburgh: ADD., 1937 . Reprint,  Add., 1960.
• Introduction to the Qur'an.
• Bell's Introduction to the Qur'an.   W. Montgomery Watt, 1970.

A commentary on the Qur’ân, vol. 1 Surahs I-XXIV., Surahs XXV-CXIV prepared by Richard Bell. Edited by C. Edmund Bosworth and M. E. J. Richardson. Manchester, 1991. 2 volumes. xxii, 608; iv, 603 p. (Journal of Semitic Studies Monograph 14).

Blachère Régis (1900-1973 CE).

• Le Coran, traduction selon un essai de reclassement des sourates, par Régis Blachère.Islam d'hier et d'aujourd'hui. 3 Paris, G. P. Maisonneuve, 1947>

• Le Coran  par Régis Blachère. 3rd. éd. Paris, Presses universitaires de France, c. 1966+ 1973.

Le Coran. Paris : Garnier, c. 1981.

Cleary,  Thomas F. (ADD/ADD).

• Essential Koran: The Heart of Islam Thomas F. Cleary (Editor and Translator) (203pp.).

• The Qur'an : A New Translation. Starlatch Press, 2004.

 

Du Ryer, André [Andrew] (ADD/ADD). Arabic->French (1647) -> English (London, 1649)

•  KORAN L'Alcoran de Mahomet. Translaté d'Arabe en François, par Sieur du Ryer, Sieur de la Grande Malezair. Suivant la Copie imprimée. Paris, chez Antoine de Sommaville 1649.

• The Alcoran of Mahomet, translated from the Arabique into French by the Sieur Du Ryer, lord of Malezair, and resident for the King of France, at Alexandria. And newly Englished, for the satisfaction of all that desire to look into the Turkish vanities. London, Printed, Anno Dom. 1649.
   

• L’Alcoran de Mahomet. Paris, chez Antoine de Sommaville 1649 (8) + 686pp + (3),  = the second printing of the Qur’an in French, which was first printed in 1647.

• A counterfeit edition printed by Jansson in Amsterdam. The translation is by Andrew du Ryer who was Resident in Alexandria. British Library, Arabic Books, I,889. Brunet, III,1309. Willems 1087

• The Alcoran of Mahomet. London, Randal Taylor 1688 Octavo (10) + xviiipp + (12) + (4) + 511pp, Reprint of the first English translation of the Qur’an of 1649.

        DUTCH (1657/8).

• DU RYER, A. Mahomets Alkoran, door de Heer Du Ryer uit de Arabische in de Fransche taal gestelt; benevens een tweevoudige beschryving van Mahomets leven; en een verhaal van des zelfs reis ten hemel; gelijk ook sijn samenspraak met de Jood Abdias. • Met kopere plaaten verciert. Leiden, H. van Damme, 1707. 6 lvs including frontispiece, 547 p., 6 plates. =  Sixth Dutch edition of the Du Ryer translation of the Koran...

 

Alastair Hamilton and Francis Richard,

• André Du Ryer and Oriental Studies in Seventeenth-Century France = ISBN13: 9780197144022 ISBN10: 0197144020

Ahmad Gunny (Review),

• André du Ryer and Oriental Studies in Seventeenth-Century France. by Alastair Hamilton and Francis Richard,  (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 192 pp. in Journal of Islamic Studies 2005

 

Ross, Alexander  (        )

• ADD

Paret, Rudi (1901-1983  German trans. 1966...

• Der Koran. Übersetzung. 1st edition, Stuttgart 1966.

• ed. Der Koran. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1975.

• Der Koran. Kommentar und Konkordanz. 2nd edition, Stuttgart 1977.
• Der Koran. Übersetzung. 8th edition, Stuttgart 2001.
• Der Koran, Kommentar und Konkordanz. Kohlhammer, 1971 (2005, 7. Aufl.). ISBN 3-17-018990-5
• Mohammed und der Koran. Kohlhammer, 1957 (2005, 9. Aufl.). ISBN 3-17-018839-9
• Die Welt des Islam und die Gegenwart. Kohlhammer, 1961. ISBN B0000BPA65

Dawood, Nessim, Joseph (b. Baghdad 1927) English trans., 1956.

Apparently follows the major Sunni commentators al-Baidawi and the Jalalayn and has gone through 7 major revisions.

• The Koran, a new translation by N.J. Dawood. [Harmondsworth, Middlesex] Penguin Books1956.
• The Koran. London: Penguin Books, 1959.

Irving, T.B. (1914-2003). American convert to Islam.

• The Qur'an : The First American version, Translation and Commentary by T. B. Irving (Al-Hajj Ta'lim 'Ali). Brattleboro, VT : Amana Bks., 1985

• Holy Qur'an, Translation and Commentary by T.B. Irving (al-Hajj Ta`lim `Ali). Tehran: International Pubishing Co., 1418/1998 (401pp.).

Kasimirski, M, trans., L·

• Coran, Paris: 1970.

• Der Koran : Arabisch-Deutsch : Übersetzung und wissenschaftlicher Kommentar von Adel Theodor Khoury. Gütersloh : Gütersloher Verlagshaus Gerd Mohn, 1990>

• The holy Qur'an : containing the Arabic text with English translation and commentary 2nd ed. Lahore : Ahmadiyya Anjuman-i-Ish'at-i-Islam, 1920.

• Translation of the holy Quran with short notes and introduction by Muhammad Ali. Lahore, India, Ahmadiyya anjuman-i-isha'at-i-Islam, 1934.

Noorudin, Allamah.

• Holy Qur'an: Arabic Text - English Translation (Bilingual) Allamah Nooruddin.  Noor Foundation Intl., 1997 ISBN = 0963206729

Palmer, Edward Henry (1840-1882)

• The Qur'an, translated by E. H. Palmer. Oxford, Clarendon press, 1880.

• The Koran (Qur'an). Trans.  E. H. Palmer. With an introduction by R. A. Nicholson. London, Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1928.

Pickthall, (Mohammed) Marmaduke William, (1875-1936).

• The Meaning of the Glorious Koran. London: Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1930.
• The meaning of the glorious Knoran, an explanatory translation by Marmaduke Pickthall. London, Allen & Unwin, 1952.
• Glorious Qur'an.  Tahrike Tarsile Quran, 1992 = ISBN 1879402165