Balkans

Qur’an translation of the week #98: Ibn Kathīr’s commentary as a source for a Qur’an translation into Bosnian

Since 1990, a large number of Arabic religious texts have been translated into Bosnian. When it comes to exegetical texts specifically, the appearance of a shortened version of Ibn Kathīr’s commentary in Bosnian in the mid-1990s was quite significant, and can be considered a mark of the rise of Salafism in the country which was, …

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Qur’an translation of the week #96: Bosnian “Časni Kur’an” by Mustafa Mlivo

Mustafa Mlivo (born 1955) is a writer on Islamic topics from Bugojno, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He graduated in engineering from Džemal Bijedić University in Mostar and has published several books on Islam and Science (for example, ‘Kur’an ispred nauke i civilizacije’ [2001, Medžlis Islamske zajednice Bugojno], which has been translated into English under the …

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Qur’an translation of the week #35: Translation of the Qur’an into Macedonian by Dr. Hasan Dzilo

The 1997 translation of the Qur’an into Macedonian (since republished twice) comprises the first, and so far only, translation of the Qur’an into a Balkan language to be published by the King Fahd Glorious Qur’an Printing Complex (two others, into Bosnian and Albanian, were published independently before this). Its author, Dr. Hasan Dzilo, is a …

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