The Gracious Quran: Arabic-English Parallel Edition (A Modern Phrased Interpretation in English: Ara - Hardcover

Ph.D. Ahmad Zaki Hammad

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0978784936 ISBN 13: 9780978784935

Publisher: Lucent Interpretations, LLC, 2008

Synopsis

This contemporary, authoritative translation interprets the Qur'ans meaning for the English reader with unprecedented access to the foundational source of Islam, its civilization, and its peoples. It is highly reliable and powerfully expressed. Where the Arabic of the Qur'an swells with important implication, that intent is conveyed in this rendering with unobtrusive brackets. Its graceful layout and design augment the profound simplicity of the Qur'an's message. Every effort has been expended to make The Gracious Qur'an august, clear, accessible, and consistent. It comes as one volume and has been painstakingly produced and researched, to the highest academic and professional standards. The translator, Dr. Ahmad Zaki Hammad, undertook more than 20 years of intense review and work to produce this monumental translation. Its production quality is of the highest, with golden edged paper, highest quality paper, multi-color printing, with an impeccable finish and touch . It comes in one volume containing detailed essays and notes, English translation, original Arabic text, comprehensive introductions, general notes, substantive indexes, and a forward by Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Twenty years in the making, The Gracious Quran: A Modern-Phrased Interpretation of Its Meanings in English is both highly reliable and powerfully expressed. Where the Arabic of the Quran swells with important implication, that intent is conveyed in this rendering with a light hand in unobtrusive brackets, every effort having been expended to make its reading august, clear, accessible, and consistent while at the same time free of poetic pretension, philosophical complication, and lifeless literalisms. Its graceful layout and design augment the profound simplicity of the Quran's message and give some semblance of resonance to its almost hypnotic power of literary expression.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lucent Interpretations, LLC
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0978784936
• ISBN 13: 9780978784935
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 1360