Qur’an translation of the week #195: The Thorny Path of a Russian Arabist: From Historian to Gulag Prisoner and Qur’an Translator
This week we are looking at the poetic Qur’an translation by Theodor Adamovich Shumovskii (1913–2012). Not only is this translation a very unusual piece of work, but the translator’s life is also worthy of a book in itself. Luckily, Shumovskii left behind not only remarkable academic scholarship, works on popular humanities, poetry, and his Qur’an […]
