An English Interpretation of the Holy Quran With Full Arabic Text [Leather Bound]

Abdullah Yusuf Ali (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 8, 1995

every endeavour has been made and steps have been taken, as far as humanly possible, to avoid any error in this Holy Quran. In spite of this, there is the likelihood of errors, havig inadvertently been overlooked, to err is human

Product Details

• Leather Bound: 1039 pages
• Publisher: Lushena Books (November 8, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9694320003
• ISBN-13: 978-9694320007
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #560,937 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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80 of 83 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Good Qur'an Just for Reading, January 13, 2003

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Christina C. Shankar "Chris NY" (Chestnut Ridge, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: An English Interpretation of the Holy Quran With Full Arabic Text (Leather Bound)

What I mean is, this is not a study-Qur'an, with lots of useful but often distracting footnotes. I've read much more of this Qur'an, and read it more deeply, than the Tahrike Tarsile edition by the same translator, Yusuf Ali. I'll turn to that edition when I need something explained or clarified, but for pure reading and inspiration, I will read this volume.

A few comments on the physical book itself. It was printed and bound in Pakistan, the pages are thicker than the Tahrike Tarsile edition, which makes for easier reading, and the cover, while thin, is nicely embossed, and the pages are edged in a handsome blue-green-gold marblized design. There is no index in this edition, which might have helped when I wanted to look something up, but that's why I will turn to the Tahrike Tarsile edition.

Reading this English interpretation of the Qur'an along with the book Approaching the Qur'an gives me a new respect for this holy text, and now I know why you can't ever really translate it from Arabic to another language: the SOUND of the words themselves provides much meaning.

42 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful translation ...., May 4, 2004

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G. Gilbert "G. Gilbert" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: An English Interpretation of the Holy Quran With Full Arabic Text (Leather Bound)

After the events of September 11th, 2001, I became very interested as a seminary student in learning as much as I could about Islam, since there seemed to be so many untrue rumours about it floating around after these tragic events. First on the list of items that I wanted to purchase was a Qu'ran, to go right to the primary source. I looked at many different traslations to see which would be the most helpful for me as I started to read this important work, and of all the ones I looked at, this one by A. Ali Yusuf was the best.

I cannot comment on the quality of the tranlsation per se because I do not speak Arabic, but I will say that the way this translation is laid out, with the English and Arabic right next to each other, makes for very relaxed and focused reading; just the visual asthetics of Arabic is breathtaking, and the English is organized and simple to work through. A reading plan at the beginning of the text explains the way in which the Qu'ran is usually read over time: a pronunciation guide is also available in front of the book.

84 of 95 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars muslima, November 13, 2000

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A.Y.O. (VA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: An English Interpretation of the Holy Quran With Full Arabic Text (Leather Bound)

Peace be upon you.

I would like to share with you my understanding that out of all the translations of the Qur'an into English, Yusuf Ali's is considered the best by not only muslims at large but also those who have very carefully studied the Qur'an (in Arabic of course), and have taught it for years and years. It is taught of being the most straight forward and clear one so far.

I've also read Asad's translation. He is a smart man, no doubt and in fact initially I was very impressed by his translation due to its intellectual approach. However, later I found that he makes certain mistakes regarding the aqida (the basic belief system) e.g., denying the existence of the jinn, and at times he seems to fit the translation of the words of God to the only way he understands them.

In any case, we should keep in mind that an unveiled access to the words of God is only possible by reading the Qur'an, and not its translation (i.e, by reading it in its original Arabic).

Peace be upon you.