In contrast to most previous threads, this week’s post shares a translator’s vision of his own work, in this case ‘Preslavnyi Koran: Pereklad smysliv Ukrains’koju movoju’ (‘The Glorious Qur’an: A Translation of its Meanings into Ukrainian’), first published in 2013 by the King Fahd Qur’an Printing Complex. Unlike many of the other translations recently published …
This week we turn our attention to Koran: Perevod Smysla Ayatov i ih Kratkoe Tolkovanie (‘The Qur’an: A Translation of the Meaning of its Verses, Accompanied by Concise Interpretation’), a Russian Qur’an translation by a Tatar translator known by the teknonymic name Abu Adel. First published in 2008, it is already on its fourth edition. …
With around 600,000 native speakers in present-day Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and Turkey and Romania, the Crimean Tatar language is among the world’s endangered languages. With at least half of its speakers living in Crimea, any news of religious translations draws great attention and tends to be seen by Crimean Tatars as a step towards the preservation …
Qur’an translation of the week #23: The Qur’an in Crimean Tatar Read More »
The first appearance of “Koran: Perevod” (“The Qur’an: Translation”) by the Azerbaijani scholar Fazil Karaogly was at the beginning of the 90’s. This seems to be the second Russian translation published in Baku; the rendition by Kračkovskij was released there in 1991. After a decade, the translation received recognition from the Turkish Directorate of Religious …
Qur’an translation of the week #11: ‘Koran: Perevod’ by Fazil Karaogly Read More »
This week we look at the highly original and influential work by the rationally-inclined Muhammad Asad: “The Message of the Qur’an”. Born Leopold Weiss in 1900 in Austria-Hungary (modern-day Lviv, Ukraine), he became Muslim in 1926. As he recounts in his autobiography “The Road to Mecca”, a Qur’an translation played an important role in his …
Qur’an translation of the week #06: “The Message of the Qur’an” by Muhammad Asad Read More »
