The Koran in English (eBook)

A Biography

Bruce B. Lawrence (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
280 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8779-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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 translation. Yet English translations exist and are growing, in both number and importance. Bruce Lawrence tells the remarkable story of the ongoing struggle to render the Qur'an's lyrical verses into English-and to make English itself an Islamic language.The "e;Koran"e; in English revisits the life of Muhammad and the origins of the Qur'an before recounting the first translation of the book into Latin by a non-Muslim: Robert of Ketton's twelfth-century version paved the way for later ones in German and French, but it was not until the eighteenth century that George Sale's influential English version appeared. Lawrence explains how many of these early translations, while part of a Christian agenda to "e;know the enemy,"e; often revealed grudging respect for their Abrahamic rival. British expansion in the modern era produced an anomaly: fresh English translations-from the original Arabic-not by Arabs or non-Muslims but by South Asian Muslim scholars.The first book to explore the complexities of this translation saga, The "e;Koran"e; in English also looks at cyber Korans, versions by feminist translators, and now a graphic Koran, the American Qur'an created by the acclaimed visual artist Sandow Birk.

Autor

Bruce B. Lawrence is the Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor Emeritus of Religion at Duke University. His many books include Who Is Allah?; New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life; and Shattering the Myth: Islam beyond Violence (Princeton). He lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.6.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Lives of Great Religious Books
• Reihe/Serie: Lives of Great Religious Books
• Zusatzinfo: 14 halftones.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Schlagworte: Abdullah Yusuf Ali • Abdul Majid Daryabadi • Abrahamic religions • Abu Sufyan ibn Harb • Adjective • After Babel • Ahmad • Ahmadiyya • Allah • Amr ibn Hisham • Annotation • arabic • ar-Rahman • Basmala • book of hours • Buddhism • Calligraphy • Christian • Christianity • Christian Mission • Creed • deity • Edition (book) • Exegesis • garry wills • George Sale • George Steiner • Ghulam Sarwar • God • God of Abraham • Haleem • Heresy • Illustration • Islam • Islamic culture • Islamic philosophy • Islamic Studies • Islam in the United States • Jews • Kafir • Laleh Bakhtiar • Magi • Malaysia • Manuscript • Marmaduke Pickthall • mecca • Mihrab • Mirza Ghulam Ahmad • Modern English • Mosque • Muhammad • Muhammad Asad • Muslim • Muslim world • Navid Kermani • N. J. Dawood • Orthodoxy • pericope • Peter the Venerable • Poetry • Polemic • Prayer • Preface (liturgy) • Print Culture • Prophecy • Prose • Protestantism • Publication • qibla • Quran • Religion • Religious Conversion • religious text • Robert of Ketton • Rumi • Sacred Books of the East • Sahih al-Bukhari • Sandow Birk • Saudi Arabia • Shakir • Sorensen • source text • South Asia • Suggestion • Sunni Islam • surah • tafsir • Tarif Khalidi • The Evolution of God • The Koran Interpreted • The Life of Muhammad • The Meaning of the Glorious Koran • thomas cleary • Transliteration • Uthman • Wahiduddin Khan • warfare • Writing • Ya Sin • Ziauddin Sardar
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8779-8 / 1400887798
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8779-8 / 9781400887798