As-salaamu 3laikum, I read some of your fataawa clarifying that a translation of the Qur'an is not the Qur'an. Somehow a question came into my mind about whether a translation of the Qur'an is more ...

British lawyer George Sale was the first man to conduct a direct English translation of the Quran. His 1733 translation contained notes and an interpretation of Muslims’ manners and laws.

When M.A.S. Abdel Haleem was a youngster in Egypt all the boys in his school were required to memorize the entire Quran and were tested annually to make sure they maintained this knowledge. The ...

Iranian émigré Kader Abdolah read the Qur’an for the first time after 9/11 and was moved to write his own version – which involved reordering, cutting and even adding a chapter. So what is lost and ...

A Nigerian Islamic scholar, Dr Dauda Awwal, has launched what he describes as the world’s first comprehensive Yoruba-English Qur’an translation, an initiative aimed at making the Islamic holy book ...

In the 1700s, American statesman Thomas Jefferson purchased a copy of the Quran. Historical records suggest that the third President of the US bought the book as a law student while others say he ...