Al-Qur'an: A Contemporary Translation (Ahmed Ali, 1984)
by al-Qur'an, Ahmed Ali (Translator)
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This English translation of the Qur'an was first published in 1984 in Karachi, Pakistan. Ahmed Ali, the distinguished Pakistani novelist, diplomat, and poet, presents the Muslims' Holy Book in a bilingual edition. Available for the first time in paperback, the translation renders the original in a contemporary and accessible voice.Tags
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This is a good translation to read in comparison with others. Ahmed Ali deliberately chooses some unorthodox renderings of a few passages. This helps those of us who are not fluent in Arabic to get a better feel for the implications or range of meanings in the original text.
One of the finer versions of the book and I have had several during my study of the Middle East and Islam. Essential to understand that the fundamentalists are serious about what they are doing.
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- Canonical title
- Sacred Writings: Islam: The Qur'an (Ahamed Ali ∙ 1984) (Ahamed Ali ∙ 1984); Al-Qur'an: A Contemporary Translation (Ahmed Ali, 1984) (Ahmed Ali, 1984)
- Original title
- القرآن الكريم
- Original publication date
- 1984 (first edition of this translation) (first edition of this translation); 1986 (second edition of this translation) (second edition of this translation); 1988 ("definitive" revised edition) ("definitive" revised edition); 1994 ("final" revised edition) ("final" revised edition); 2001 (paperback edition with additional revisions) (paperback edition with additional revisions)
- First words
- By Way of Preface
Qur'anic Arabic is distinguished by sublimity and excellencies of sound and eloquence, rhetoric and metaphor, assonance and alliteration, onomatopoeia and rhyme, ellipse and parallelism.
1 The Prologue
Al-Fātihah: Makki
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful. - Original language
- Arabic
- Disambiguation notice
- Please distinguish this work, Islam: The Qur'an (being Volume 3 of Jaroslav Pelikan's series, "Sacred Writings") from the text of that original work, The Qur'an or The Koran. Thank you.
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- Arabic, English
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