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John William Jakes (March 31, 1932 – March 11, 2023) was an American writer, best known for historical and speculative fiction. His American Civil War trilogy, North and South, has sold millions of copies worldwide. He was also the author of The Kent Family Chronicles. Jakes used the pen name Jay Scotland among others.
Quran imitations represent literary attempts to replicate the style, form and content of the Quran. Historically, they emerge in a dialectic with the doctrine of the i'jaz (inimitability) of the Quran, which asserts that the literary and/or semantic nature of the Quran cannot be reproduced by a human. Both Muslims and non-Muslims have written ...
In 2007 The Sublime Qur'an appeared by Laleh Bakhtiar; it is the second translation of the Qur'an by an American woman. [36] [41] [42] [43] In 2008, Tarif Khalidi completed The Qur'an: A New Translation for Penguin Classics and Viking Press. It did not include commentary, so as to give readers a sense of how the earliest Muslims would have read ...
Tom Holland states that "the evidence seems to suggest" that the contemporary standard Quran "was uttered by Muhammad in the period that Muslim tradition has insisted that he lived".) [39] The Quran is not written in a "pure" Arabic, as the Syriac language seems to have had a certain influence on the language of the Quran which was forgotten ...
Allamah Nooruddin, Amatul Rahman Omar and Abdul Mannan Omar 1990, The Holy Qur'an - Arabic Text and English Translation [65] [66] (ISBN 0976697238). T. B. Irving, 1991 Noble Qur'an: Arabic Text & English Translation (ISBN 0-915597-51-9) Mir Aneesuddin, 1993 "A Simple Translation of The Holy Qur'an (with notes on Topics of Science)"
The Holy Qur'an: The Arabic Text and English Translation (1981). Translated by Muhammad Sarwar. Englewood: The Islamic Seminary Inc., 1981. [19] The Holy Qur'an. Translated by Syed V. Mir Ahmed Ali. Tehran: Osweh Printing & Publication Co., 1988. ISBN 9780940368842; The Quran: A Poetic Translation. Translated by Fazlollah Nikayin. 2000.
Though set in a fictional world, with its own complicated history, Brak early on encounters a religion bearing strong resemblance to Christianity—the Nestorians, followers of a religion founded by the goat-herd Nestoriamus, who believe in a universal "Nameless God" whose symbol is the Cross.
The question of whether the Quran includes saj' has been a contentious issue among Arabic literary critics because of the worry that this would conflate the Quran with human composition. [28] Most believed the Quran contained a significant amount of saj' [ 29 ] or that it has several formal features of saj' but that it should not be described ...