El Coran (Spanish Edition) [Hardcover]

Julio Cortes (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 18, 2005

En esta edicion castellana revisada del texto oficial arabe del Coran se asocian los conocimientos de un lingüista y de un islamologo. Una introduccion al texto sagrado situa al lector en el espacio y el tiempo. Enriquecen tambien la traduccion un glosario de terminos coranicos, un aparato critico de notas y un indice analitico.

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Text: Spanish, Arabic --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 784 pages
• Publisher: Herder; 7 edition (October 18, 2005)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 8425415942
• ISBN-13: 978-8425415944
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.8 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,221,400 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Note about the Qur'an, March 4, 2009

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Lingua Franca (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: El Coran (The Koran, Spanish-Language Edition) (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

I would like to post this as a response to the previous post by Mr. Rivas, who obviously has a very uninformed background on Islam and the Qur'an.

As a Western, Non-Muslim student of Islam, I understand the confusion that can arise when you first pick up the text. It does not follow a specific chronology (either within or between chapters), nor does it always speak with directness (opting for analogies, as the Bible often does). It is important to know that the Qur'an as a printed, bound book is not really THE Qur'an, as was revealed by the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh); back then, the text was recited orally, and the relevant passages were quoted as needed. But a book, of course, must have a beginning and an ending, so when the Qur'an was finally written down, an order was chosen in which the chapters were arranged more or less from longest to shortest.

It is not advisable that you should read the Qur'an alone, without the help of a teacher or a commentary. Farid Esack's "The Qur'an: A User's Guide" and Ingrid Mattson's "The Story of the Qur'an" are two useful introductions.

As for Mr. Rivas' comment about murder, paradise, and "72 virgins," you will not find this in the Qur'an. In fact, you will not find that any such promise was ever uttered by the Prophet Muhammad. Instead, it is a perversion of Islam used by radicals who prefer to draw upon their own region's non/pre-Islamic cultural traditions than listen to the guidance of the actual religion they claim to follow.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spiritual, September 24, 2009

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This review is from: El Coran (The Koran, Spanish-Language Edition) (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

I guess we all want to know who God is and what better way to learn is by how others worship him. Maybe there is something that we have missed in our own worship...this is my personal thought. It's like finding a piece to the puzzle. I just hope I can find my way before my time is up.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Julio Cortes is a Catholic Christian, September 8, 2011

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Lector - See all my reviews

This review is from: El Coran (The Koran, Spanish-Language Edition) (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

Julio Cortes is a Catholic Christian . It is a priest of the church. His translation of the Quran is full of interpretations. I do not recommend this translation for anything. It's much better to buy a translation done by a native Muslim.

Es un cura de la iglesia. Su traduccion del Coran esta lleno de sus interpretaciones. No recomiendo esta traduccion para nada. Es mucho mejor comprar una traduccion hecho por un musulman nativo.