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Salman the Persian translated the first chapter of the Qur'an, Al-Fatiha, from Arabic to Persian. [1] [full citation needed]Greek: The purpose is unknown but it is confirmed to be the first-ever complete translation of the Quran.
The Qur'an has been translated from the Arabic into most major African, Asian, and European languages. [1]Translations of the Quran often contain distortions [2] [3] reflecting a translator's education, region, sect, [4] and religious ideology.
The Holy Qur'an: Arabic Text and English Translation (1990) was the first translation by a Muslim woman, Amatul Rahman Omar. The Noble Quran: Meaning With Explanatory Notes (2007) by Taqi Usmani is the first English translation of the Quran ever written by a traditionalist Deobandi scholar.
The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary is an English translation of the Qur'an by the British Indian Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872–1953) during the British Raj.It has become among the most widely known English translations of the Qur'an, due in part to its prodigious use of footnotes, and its distribution and subsidization by Saudi Arabian beneficiaries during the late 20th century.
Another translation of the Quran was completed in 884 in Alwar (Sindh, India, now Pakistan) by the orders of Abdullah bin Umar bin Abdul Aziz on the request of the Hindu Raja Mehruk. [247] The first fully attested complete translations of the Quran were done between the 10th and 12th centuries in Persian.
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall (born Marmaduke William Pickthall; 7 April 1875 – 19 May 1936) was an English Islamic scholar noted for his 1930 English translation of the Quran, called The Meaning of the Glorious Koran. His translation of the Quran (usually anglicized as "Koran" in Pickthall's era) is one of the most widely known and used in ...
His translation of the Koran is one of the best-selling English language versions – it has been reprinted at least 70 times, appearing in several revised editions and formats (and also in pirated editions published in Iran and the Lebanon) [6] t. For N J Dawood, the Koran was a lifelong “work in progress” – constantly revised and ...
The Koran Interpreted is a translation of the Qur'an (the Islamic religious text) by Arthur John Arberry. [1] The translation is from the original Arabic into English. First published in 1955, it is one of the most prominent written by a non-Muslim scholar. The title acknowledges the orthodox Islamic view that the Qur'an cannot be translated ...