Qur’an translation of the week #164: From The Great Tiding to The Awesome News: Mahmoud Ayoub’s Translation and Exegesis between Lebanon, Libya and the United States
Despite the fact that Mahmoud Ayoub (1935–2021) was a fairly renowned member of the Muslim community in North America, his translation of the Juzʾ ʿamma, the last of the thirty parts of the Qur’an, is virtually unknown and hard to obtain. It is a fascinating source for at least two reasons: first, because of its …