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 Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 10:39 am
As most people know from reading my other posts in this guild, I am a student of all religions. I am interested in reading the Holy Qu'ran, but am unsure what translations I should acquire (I normally like to read two translations of a holy text side by side to compare them.) How many different translations into english are there? Which would be best for someone who simply wants to read the text without a lot of clutter?
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 7:53 pm
Merlin the White As most people know from reading my other posts in this guild, I am a student of all religions. I am interested in reading the Holy Qu'ran, but am unsure what translations I should acquire (I normally like to read two translations of a holy text side by side to compare them.) How many different translations into english are there? Which would be best for someone who simply wants to read the text without a lot of clutter? hmmm my translation is a large blue book and is the one most commonly found...but let me remind you that in arabic all qurans are the same and have not been altered in any way
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 11:31 pm
i got one free online, but then i heard that the FBI was tracking the book shipping activity because it was done by an Islamic education society they were suspicious about. eek
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Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 8:29 pm
Hmmm...I can't really suggest any two specific translations. I'm not up to date on this subject. sweatdrop
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A Murder of Angels Captain
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Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 12:06 am
I have an old translation of it, from 1953. The translator claims that it's the first english version of the Koran in print, but I'm not sure about that. I recommend getting a much more recent version.
Does anyone know if a "study" version of the Koran exists, where it has the text, and a reference and explaination in the margins? And if a study version exists, which would be recommended for me to get?
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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:27 am
If they had a study Koran, I'd want one. I have a bible like that, and even though I don't really read it, it does help for understanding when I do decide to. (One day, I do plan on reading the whole bible, just because it has some interesting stories..in the old testament anyway.)
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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 1:00 pm
right now i am studying this book on Islam, which although it is of course a textbook still seems quite fair, and not too wordy:
"An Introduction to Islam", by David Waines, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
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Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 10:48 am
I dunno. We have many books, and its Qu'ran for those who keep spelling it wrong. Every book I have, many different one has the same translation.
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A Murder of Angels Captain
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Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 2:22 pm
haana I dunno. We have many books, and its Qu'ran for those who keep spelling it wrong. Every book I have, many different one has the same translation. I only said "Koran" because that's what's printed on the title of my copy. Keep in mind, my copy is a very old English translation.
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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 3:33 pm
A Murder of Angels haana I dunno. We have many books, and its Qu'ran for those who keep spelling it wrong. Every book I have, many different one has the same translation. I only said "Koran" because that's what's printed on the title of my copy. Keep in mind, my copy is a very old English translation. "Koran" is the phonetical spelling- "Qu'ran" is the accurate spelling, though both are widly used.
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 12:49 pm
All of the Qur'ans i have have the same translations. The Qur'an has never been changes, so there is no reason for you to check in more than one Qur'an.
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