Interlinear Qur’an translation is often considered a thing of the past – but in many contexts, it is alive and kicking! This points to fundamental differences

“The Majestic Qur’an” (Nottingham: Invitation Publishing, 2018) is among the recent translations placing an emphasis on “plain English”. Its translator, Dr

It is not unusual that a Qur’an translation becomes a source for translations into further languages, but what about a single translator who produces his work

This book, which I purchased in a bookstore in Tunis, was published in Homs, Syria, in 2011 and claims to contain a French Qur’an translation produced by the

This week we look at the highly original and influential work by the rationally-inclined Muhammad Asad: “The Message of the Qur’an”.

Among the numerous translations of the Qur’an into Balkan languages, the Bosnian translation by Besim Korkut (1904–1977) may still be the most popular. After

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This book, entitled “The Approximate Meaning of Al Qur’ān Al Karīm in German Language” („Die ungefähre Bedeutung des Al Qur’ān Al Karīm in deutscher

This week we peek inside probably the most recent English translation to be published: Bridges’ Translation of the Ten Qira’at of the Noble Qur’an. It was

“Koran: perevod smyslov” (1993) was the first Russian translation by a Muslim woman. By the late 1980’s, the Muslim community in the Soviet bloc experienced

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"Al-Quräan dan terdjemahnja", a hugely successful project of the newly-independent Republic of Indonesia, was the first Qur’an translation ever to be

Significant contribution to the retranslation studies of religious texts. Despite the lively scholarly discourse on retranslation and its manifest value for uncovering dynamics of cultural change, int...

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"Visible Translators. The colonial and postcolonial trajectories of Qur’an translation" Sixth installment in the De/Coloniality Now online talk series "Coloniality and decoloniality in translation", 7 May 2024. Discussant: Daniel Jacob Credits to Fadhli Lukman for his work on the Ahok case in Indonesia, mentioned towards the end of the talk. See: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0289