While the issue of Qur’anic translatability was still a subject of debate during the 1930s in the Middle East, some European Muslims did not regard this as a problem to be discussed at all (even for the English language). Jakub Szynkiewicz (1884–1966), a Muslim and Orientalist scholar who served as mufti of Poland is a […]
Usually Qur’an translations into the Polish language are associated with the legacy of the Polish-Lithuanian Tatars, but in recent years significant new developments have taken place in other communities. For example, in 2021, ‘Koran’ (‘The Qur’an’) was published by ‘the Society of Muslim Unity’ (‘Stowarzyszenie jedności muzułmańskiej’, henceforth SJM). The translator was Rafał Berger (b.
While most international Islamic institutions prefer to publish ‘Muslim’ translations of the Qur’an, this does not always mean that they do not also promote Qur’an translations produced by non-Muslim academics. For example, Max Henning’s German Qur’an translation (for which, see Qur’an translation of the week #37), has been published by a number of Islamic publishing
It is widely known that the first translation of the Qur’an in Europe was produced in Latin in a Christian context, but what about the first Muslim translation? That honour goes to the 16th–17th century interpretation into the Old Polish language (with extensive usage of other Slavic vocabularies like Old Belarusian), made by Tatars of
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