The Koran in English : : A Biography / / Bruce Lawrence.
The untold story of how the Arabic Qur'an became the English KoranFor millions of Muslims, the Qur'an is sacred only in Arabic, the original Arabic in which it was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century; to many Arab and non-Arab believers alike, the book literally defies...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2017 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Lives of Great Religious Books ;
27 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 14 halftones. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Muhammad and Revelation
- The Orientalist Koran
- The South Asian Koran
- The Virtual Koran and Beyond
- The Koran Up Close
- The Politics of Koran Translation
- The Graphic Koran
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- Notes
- Index