List of translations of the Qur'an

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Sunni translations by

Abdullah Yusuf Ali — 1934 Marmaduke Pickthall — 1936 Muhammad Muhsin Khan Mohammed Knut Bernström

Shi'a translations by

Mir Ahmed Ali — ?

Non-Muslim translations by

Robert of Ketton — 1110-1160 Sieur du Ryer — 1647 John Medows Rodwell — ?

This is a sub-article to Translation of the Qur'an.

Contents 1 By first printing date 1.1 700s 1.2 1100s 1.3 1500s 1.4 1600s 1.5 1700s 1.6 1800s 1.7 1900s 2 By writer and language 2.1 Balochi 2.2 English 2.3 Esperanto 2.4 French 2.5 Latin 2.6 Malayalam 2.7 Mande 2.8 Persian 2.9 Polish 2.10 Tatar 2.11 Urdu 2.12 Swedish 2.13 Danish 3 References 4 External links

[edit] By first printing date

[edit] 700s

• 6??, Salman the Persian Translated Fatiha from Arabic to Persian.

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[edit] 1100s

• 1143(?), Latin Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete, — , by Robert of Ketton

[edit] 1500s

• 1543(?), Latin reprint of Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete edited by Theodor Bibliander [2]

[edit] 1600s

• 1647-??-??, French, L'Alcoran de Mahomet by Andre du Ryer
• 1649-??-??, English, L'Alcoran de Mahomet by Alexander Ross
• 1694-??-??, Arabic, printed and published in full at Hamburg for the first time, Abraham Hinckelmann [3]
• 1698-??-??, Latin, new Latin rendering made by Father Maracci, Padua [4]

[edit] 1700s

• 1734-??-??, English, KORAN, Commonly called The Alcoran of Mohammed, Translated into English immediately from the Original Arabic; with Explanatory Notes, taken from the most approved Commentators. To which is prefixed a Preliminary Discourse, by George Sale

[edit] 1800s

• 1841-??-??, Leipzig 1841 text of the Koran edited by Gustav Fluegel. [5]
• 1858 Polish Koran (al Koran) by Jan Murza Tarak Buczacki
• 1861-??-??, English, The Koran by John Medows Rodwell [6]
• 1880-??-??, English, ? by Edward Henry Palmer

[edit] 1900s

• 1917-??-??, English, The Holy Qur'an — , by Maulana Muhammad Ali (Ahmadiyya sect), ISBN 0-913321-11-7.[7]
• 1930-??-??, English, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran — , by Marmaduke Pickthall (Sunni sect), ISBN 1-879402-51-3 [8] [9]
• 1934-??-??, English, The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary — , by Abdullah Yusuf Ali (Sunni sect), ISBN 0-915957-76-0.
• 1955-??-??, English, The Koran Interpreted: A Translation — , by Arthur John Arberry, ISBN 0-684-82507-4.
• 1985-??-??, English, Noble Qur'an — , by Muhammad Muhsin Khan (Salafi sect.
• 1986 Polish Koran by Józef Bielawski
• 1989-05-??, English, The Qur'an — , by M. H. Shakir (Shi'a? sect), ISBN 0-940368-16-1.
• 1998-??-??,Swedish language, Koranens budskap — , by Mohammed Knut Bernström (Sunni sect)

[edit] By writer and language

[edit] Balochi

• Moulana Huzoor Bakhsh

[edit] English

• Ahmed Ali, Al-Qur'an, a Contemporary Translation
• Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Meaning of the Holy Qur'an (ISBN 0-915957-76-0)
• M. H. Shakir, The Qur'an (ISBN 0-940368-16-1)
• Marmaduke Pickthall, The Glorious Qu'ran (ISBN 1-879402-51-3)
• Maulana Muhammad Ali, The Holy Qur'an: Text (ISBN 0-913321-11-7)
• Muhammad Muhsin Khan, Noble Qur'an ^[2].

Less Well-Known English Translators

• Maulvi Sher Ali
• Arthur John Arberry, The Koran Interpreted : A Translation (ISBN 0-684-82507-4)
• Muhammad Asad, The Message of The Qur'an (ISBN 1-904510-00-0)
• Thomas Cleary, The Qur'an: A New Translation (ISBN 1-929694-44-X) and The Essential Koran : The Heart of Islam (ISBN 0-06-250198-4)
• Abdul Majid Daryabadi ("The Holy Qur'an, English Translation " 1941 57, Lahore - A faithful, though largely unacknowledged translation.)
• Muhammad Abdel Haleem, The Qur'an (ISBN 0-19-280548-7)
• Dr. Zohurul Hoque, Translation and Commentary on The Holy Quran (ISBN 0-9678304-0-0)
• Dr. T. B. Irving, Noble Qur'an: Arabic Text & English Translation (ISBN 0-915597-51-9)
• Dr. Muhsin Khan and Dr. M. Taqi-ud-Din Al-Hilali, The Noble Quran (ISBN 1-59144-000-9)
• N. J. Dawood
• Fazlolla Nikayin
• E.H. Palmer, The Qur'an: The Sacred Books of the East Part Nine (ISBN 1-4179-3010-1)
• Professor Hassan Qaribullah and Ahmad Darwish Grand Shaykh, The Meaning of The Glorious Koran Umm Durman university, Cairo 2001.
• George Sale, KORAN, Commonly called The Alcoran of Mohammed, Translated into English immediately from the Original Arabic; with Explanatory Notes, taken from the most approved Commentators. To which is prefixed a Preliminary Discourse
• Muhammad Sarwar, The Holy Qur'an (ISBN 0-941724-00-X) - An explanatory translation that paraphrases the contents of the Qur'an in a lucid style

There is also a translation based on the Al-Muntakhab tafsir written by a group of scholars.

[edit] Esperanto

• Italo Chiussi, La Nobla Korano
• Muztar Abbasi, La traduko de la Sankta Kuraano

[edit] French

• Andre du Ryer, L'Alcoran de Mahomet

[edit] Latin

• Robert of Ketton, Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete

[edit] Malayalam

• Muhammad Amani Maulavi

[edit] Mande

• Souleymane Kante

Moulana Abul A'la Moudoodhi

[edit] Persian

• Salman the Persian
• Shah Waliullah (1703-1762)
• Mehdi Elahi Ghomshei, in persian (مهدي الهي قمشه اي)
• Naser Makarem Shirazi, in persian (ناصر مكارم شيرازي)

[edit] Polish

• Jan Murza Tarak Buczacki
• Józef Bielawski

[edit] Tatar

• Musa Bigiev

[edit] Urdu

• Shah Waliullah (1703-1762)
• Shah Rafi al-Din
• Shah 'Abd al-Qadir
• Fatheh Mohammad Khan
• Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi
• Ameen Ahsan Islahi
• Maulana Muhammad Ali
• Maulana Asraf Ali Thanvee of India

[edit] Swedish

• Mohammed Knut Bernström

[edit] Danish

• Ellen Wulff (translated in 2006)

[edit] References

1. ^ An-Nawawi, Al-Majmu', (Cairo, Matbacat at-'Tadamun n.d.), 380.
2. ^ [1]

• Online Translations of the Qur'ān

[edit] External links

• Three Translations of the Qur'ān
• http://www.cyberistan.org/islamic/quranetr.htm
• http://www.cyberistan.org/islamic/translate.htm

Translations

• Multilingual Qur'an Project: Searchable Qur'an with the original Arabic, 4 English Translations and 1 English Commentary[(Note: The commentary is by a Shi'ite commentator, and does not agree with the consensus of the Muslim scholars and mainstream commentators).]
• The Noble Qur'an (with three translations in unison) by the University of Southern California
• Translations of Qur'an by Islamicity
• Four English Translations of the Qur'an
• The Holy Qur'an on Wikisource
• A bilingual Arabic-aljamiado Quran from the fifteenth century
• The IslamAwakened Project - Arabic, Roman transliteration, a word-for-word guide, and over a dozen well-known translations.
• online Quran - Contains several translations of the Quran in many languages including English, Spanish and French.
• Chinese Translation of the meaning of the Holy Qur'an
• English, Urdu, Dutch, French, Spanish and German version of Maulana Mohammad Ali's translation
• Translations of the Quran in numerous languages with commentaries
• Translations of The Meanings of The Holy Quran in 38 Languages