Qur'an

A Verse Translation

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Hardcover, 672 pages

English language

Published Feb. 13, 2024 by Liveright Publishing Corporation.

ISBN:
978-0-87140-499-2
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5 stars (1 review)

Islam's founding text, rendered for the first time in flowing English verse. This monumental feat of translation, the product of a ten-year-long collaboration between one of our most respected scholars of Islam (Bruce B. Lawrence) and a poet and scholar of literature (M. A. R. Habib), The Qur'an: A Verse Translation offers readers the first rendering in English to echo, in accessible and fluent verse, the sonorous beauty of the Arabic original as well as the complex nuances of its meaning.

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reviewed Qur'an by M. A. R. Habib

Very nice translation to listen to

5 stars

I read this as an audiobook, which is definitely appropriate for a self-described "Verse Translation." The text did have a flow to it. I do not know Arabic so I cannot compare this to the original, but I have read through about half of an English prose translation. While the prose translation was not at all bad, this translation did have something lyrical about it. If one is interested in learning about the religion this translation seems to be a good way to get started. It is a good translation of the foundational document that centuries of commentary and discussion are built upon.

Subjects

  • Jews, history
  • Bible, biography
  • Qur'an