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Qur’an translation of the week #212: From The Quran as Revealed to The Message: The Latest Trend in Qur’an Publishing

On April 17, 2023, a new British publisher called ‘Quwa’ (the Arabic word for ‘strength’) launched a book titled The Quran as Revealed. The launch was accompanied by intense advertising on social media, and the book was endorsed by the popular, if not entirely uncontroversial, Mufti Menk from Zimbabwe (he has 10 million followers on […]

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Qur’an translation of the week #82: Between slavery and apartheid – an imam in Western Cape and his Afrikaans Qur’an translation

The history of the first Afrikaans Qur’an translation throws a spotlight on the afterlives of slavery and colonialism, the international movement of texts and ideas in the twentieth century, and the disruption of modern South African history. ‘Die Heilige Qur’ān’ by Imam Mohammed Armien Baker (1910–1982) was first published in 1961 by Nasionale Boekhandel, in

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