The Koran - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804111251 ISBN 13: 9780804111256

Publisher: Ivy Books, 1993

Synopsis

Koran for all who would comprehend the many vital problems connected with the Islamic World ;and yet few of us, I imagine, among the many who possess translations of this book have been at pains to read it through. It must, however, be borne in mind that the Koran plays a far greater role among the Muhammadans than does the Bible in Christianity in that it provides not only the canon of their faith, but also the text-book of their ritual and the principles of their Civil Law. It was the Great Crusades that first brought the West into close touch with I slam, but between the years 1096 and 1270 we only hear of one attempt to make known to Europe the Sacred Book of the Moslems, namely, the Latin version made in 1143, by Robert of Retina (who, Sale tells us, was an Englishman), and Hermann of Dalmatia, on the initiative of Petrus Venerabilis, the Abbot of Clugny, which version was ultimately printed by T. Bibliander in Basel in 1543, nearly a hundred years after the fall of Constantinople. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, several translations appeared both in Latin and in French, and one of the latter, by Andre du Ryer, was translated into English by Alexander Ross in 1649. But by far the most important work on the Koran was that of Luigi Marracci which was published in Padua in 1698. George Sale stranslation first appeared in November, 1734, in a quarto volume ;in 1764 it was first printed in medium octavo, and the reprint of 1825 contained the sketch of Sale slife by Richard Alfred Davenant which has been utilized in the article on Sale in the Dictionary of National Biography. The Chandos Classics edition in crown octavo was first issued in 1877.
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Book Description:

A new edition of one of the world's most important and influential books

About the Author:

Alan Jones is a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. After studying Classics, Arabic and Persian at Cambridge he moved to Oxford to study Turkish. He has taught Arabic and Islamic Studies there since 1957. He is a specialist in pre-Islamic and early Islamic Arabic and in Quranic Studies, and, at a much later period, in the literature of Muslim Spain. He is at present writing a book on the pre-Islamic background of the Qur'an.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ivy Books
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0804111251
• ISBN 13: 9780804111256
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 416