1. Twentieth-Century Debates on the Translatability of the Qur’an in the Middle East
Journal: The global Qur'an
Year: 2024

Chapter One, ‘Twentieth-Century Debates on the Translatability of the Qur’an in the Middle East’, covers not only the period of the first debates over the translatability of the Qur’an in the Muslim world (primarily Egypt, Syria, and Iraq) during the early- and mid-twentieth century but also the local development of the ‘translation movement’ in the Saudi context. It discusses the significance to these debates of a corpus of religious texts by authors ranging from the twelfth-century thinker Ibn