The Global Qur’an
ERC-funded research project on the modern history of Qur'an translation. PI: Johanna Pink. https://t.co/GdoecVcdbV
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In 1995, two preachers from Port Louis, the capital city of the island of Mauritius, published a Qur’an translation into Mauritian Creole. ‘Le Saint Qur’aan’ did not actually claim...
When a translator entitles his work ‘The Textual Translation For The Qur’an The Supreme’, this is a clear indication that he is taking the concept of ‘literal translation’ to the e...
This week, our guest contributor Sheam Khan @SheamAbdulAziz presents Laleh Bakhtiar’s ‘The Sublime Qur’an,’ a translation that has alternately been labelled as feminist, Qur’anist,...
In February 2023, a court in Istanbul ruled that the distribution and sale or the 🇹🇷 Turkish 🇹🇷 translation of the Qur’an authored by Recep İhsan Eliaçık (b. 1961) would no longer...
In 1915, the Ahmadiyya Movement published the first part of ‘The Holy Qur-ān with English Translation and Explanatory Notes’, the first Ahmadi translation to be published in a Euro...
Last week, we discussed the history of one of the 🌏 most 🌎 widely 🌍 used English Qur'an translations. But what about its ideological background? And how does the early 1977 edition...
The popular translation of the Qur’an into English widely known as ‘Hilali-Khan’ is one of the most influential Islamic texts in the world. 🌍🌎🌏 #qurantranslationoftheweek https://t...
The translator in this week’s thread is very much a household name for readers of the Qur’an in English, but what are the roots of that popularity? And who is the man behind the na...
🇿🇦 The history of the first Afrikaans Qur’an translation throws a spotlight on the afterlives of slavery in South Africa, the international movement of texts and ideas in the twent...