The Koran Interpreted A Translation

by Arberry, A. J.

• ISBN13: 9780684825076
• ISBN10: 0684825074
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-12-11
• Publisher: Touchstone

Summary

If someone wants to read a version of the Koran in English, s/he ought to read one that has some literary qualities, and reads like a book ought to, rather than some kind of reference text full of odd punctuation, awkward and unusual expressions, brackets etc. To be sure, no one can give us a translation into English that will capture every nuance or connotation.

Author Biography

Arthur John Arberry, as Head of the Department of Classics at Cairo University, acquired a firsthand knowledge of literary and social conditions in the Islamic Middle East. Between 1947 and 1969 he served as Sir Thomas Adams Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University. He published some twenty books in Islamic studies during his lifetime, many dealing with mysticism and poetry. Professor Arberry died in England in 1969.

Table of Contents

The Koran Interpreted	p. 5
Preface	p. 7
The Opening	p. 29
The Cow	p. 30
The House of Imran	p. 73
Women	p. 100
The Table	p. 127
Cattle	p. 149
The Battlements	p. 171
The Spoils	p. 197
Repentance	p. 207
Jonah	p. 224
Hood	p. 239
Joseph	p. 254
Thunder	p. 267
Abraham	p. 274
El-Hijr	p. 281
The Bee	p. 287
The Night Journey	p. 302
The Cave	p. 316
Mary	p. 330
Ta Ha	p. 339
The Koran: Interpreted	p. 7
Preface	p. 8
The Prophets	p. 17
The Pilgrimage	p. 27
The Believers	p. 37
Light	p. 46
Salvation	p. 56
The Poets	p. 64
The Ant	p. 76
The Story	p. 86
The Spider	p. 97
The Greeks	p. 105
Lokman	p. 112
Prostration	p. 117
The Confederates	p. 121
Sheba	p. 131
The Angels	p. 138
Ya Sin	p. 144
The Rangers	p. 150
Sad	p. 158
The Companies	p. 165
The Believers	p. 175
Distinguished	p. 185
Counsel	p. 192
Ornaments	p. 199
Smoke	p. 207
Hobbling	p. 210
The Sand-Dunes	p. 215
Muhammad	p. 220
Victory	p. 225
Apartments	p. 230
Qaf	p. 233
The Scatterers	p. 237
The Mount	p. 241
The Star	p. 244
The Moon	p. 247
The All-Merciful	p. 251
The Terror	p. 254
Iron	p. 258
The Disputer	p. 263
The Mustering	p. 267
The Woman Tested	p. 271
The Ranks	p. 274
Congregation	p. 277
The Hypocrites	p. 279
Mutual Fraud	p. 281
Divorce	p. 284
The Forbidding	p. 287
The Kingdom	p. 290
The Pen	p. 293
The Indubitable	p. 297
The Stairways	p. 300
Noah	p. 302
The Jinn	p. 305
Enwrapped	p. 308
Shrouded	p. 310
The Resurrection	p. 313
Man	p. 315
The Loosed Ones	p. 318
The Tiding	p. 320
The Pluckers	p. 322
He Frowned	p. 324
The Darkening	p. 326
The Splitting	p. 328
The Stinters	p. 329
The Rending	p. 331
The Constellations	p. 332
The Night-Star	p. 334
The Most High	p. 335
The Enveloper	p. 336
The Dawn	p. 337
The Land	p. 339
The Sun	p. 340
The Night	p. 341
The Forenoon	p. 342
The Fig	p. 343
The Expanding	p. 343
The Blood-Clot	p. 344
Power	p. 345
The Clear Sign	p. 346
The Earthquake	p. 347
The Chargers	p. 347
The Clatterer	p. 348
Rivalry	p. 348
The Backbiter	p. 349
Afternoon	p. 349
The Elephant	p. 350
Koraish	p. 350
Abundance	p. 351
Charity	p. 351
The Unbelievers	p. 352
Help	p. 352
Perish	p. 353
Sincere Religion	p. 353
Men	p. 354
Daybreak	p. 354
Index	p. 355
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