The Quran: The Eternal Revelation Vouchsafed to Muhammad the Seal of the Prophets (English and Arabic Edition) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566562554 ISBN 13: 9781566562553

Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Inc, 1997

Synopsis

A new English translation by the former foreign minister of Pakistan is accompanied by the Arabic text

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About the Author

Muhammad Zafrulla Khan was the foreign minister of Pakistan in 1947. He became the president of the Seventeenth Session of the UN General Assembly and later served as Judge of the International Court of Justice at the Hague, of which Court he became president.

From Library Journal

Translation of the Qur'an, the holy book of Muslims, from its original Arabic has been for a long time an issue of controversy in Muslim countries and a subject of serious discourse among Islamic scholars and theologians. It may be reasonably claimed that translations of the Qur'an are merely subjective attempts to render its meaning. Khan, a former Pakistani foreign minister and an international lawyer, presents a translation that is clear and simple to comprehend to a wide English-speaking audience. The Arabic text is included on the same page side by side with the English rendering. Divided into 114 chapters called "suras" and arranged in increasing order of length, the book contains the collected revelations of the Prophet Muhammad, transmitted to him by the Angel Gabriel. Khan's translation includes a lengthy introduction (about 50 pages) that sheds some light on what a lay reader should know about the Qur'an, according to the translator, and is meant in lieu of explanatory notes in single chapters. Recommended for all collections.?Ali Houissa, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, N.Y.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1566562554
• ISBN 13: 9781566562553
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 736