The Koran Interpreted: A Translation

by A. J. Arberry

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I don't care for this translation at all. In the introduction, the translator, an Englishman, rhapsodizes about how he was inspired to undertake this work by his enjoyment of the beauty of recited Arabic, yet his translation is terribly awkward English. Apparently Mr. Arberry thought he was being lyrical, but all he manages is to be obscure. The translations by Yusufali, M. Pickthall, Ahmed Ali, N.J. Dawood, and Kenneth Cragg are better than this one. (

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