Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: NYer
My copy of the Quran, with more than 1,700 pages...

That can only be Abdullah Yusuf Ali's version. It has the original text, an English translation, and a lot of commentary, unfortunately all interleaved, which makes it a poor version for devotional reading. The modern editions have also edited (badly) much of Ali's original text.

The translation alone is about 40% of the whole. So she read 20 to 25 pages a day throughout the month. Not that hard.

51 posted on 08/21/2012 11:30:52 PM PDT by John Locke
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: John Locke

I have read the Holy Quran twice. Once an english translation from the 1800s the second from the http://www.gutenberg.org . Looking in the bookstores at the more recent transltions, it has been altered a great deal to hide the violence the real Qurans contain.

For instance the Sura, “Spoils of War”, which tells how to divide the booty from vanquished infidels has been changed to “Victory” and states that Allah will give great booty to the true believers, never saying from whence it comes.


52 posted on 08/22/2012 12:16:36 AM PDT by Mogger (Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies ]

To: John Locke

I have read the Holy Quran twice. Once an english translation from the 1800s the second from the http://www.gutenberg.org . Looking in the bookstores at the more recent transltions, it has been altered a great deal to hide the violence the real Qurans contain.

For instance the Sura, “Spoils of War”, which tells how to divide the booty from vanquished infidels has been changed to “Victory” and states that Allah will give great booty to the true believers, never saying from whence it comes.


53 posted on 08/22/2012 12:16:36 AM PDT by Mogger (Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies ]

To: John Locke

I have read the Holy Quran twice. Once an english translation from the 1800s the second from the http://www.gutenberg.org . Looking in the bookstores at the more recent transltions, it has been altered a great deal to hide the violence the real Qurans contain.

For instance the Sura, “Spoils of War”, which tells how to divide the booty from vanquished infidels has been changed to “Victory” and states that Allah will give great booty to the true believers, never saying from whence it comes.


54 posted on 08/22/2012 12:16:43 AM PDT by Mogger (Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson