Talk:Quran translations

message: for some reason grenavitar decided to add John Arberry twice. He did not understand that I created a new section of less well-known translators. someone should revert to my last edit or simply get rid of his name under well-known translators.
:That was a while ago... I hadn't seen that you had moved the name, I thought you had deleted it.  However, I do think he is well known. gren 19:14, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of translators 

message: Maulana Muhammad Ali's translation should be mentioned here. KI 17:39, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Maulana Muhammad Ali

message: Im gonna be bold and create List of translations of the Qur'an, listing them per "date of birth".--Striver 14:37, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bold

message: I think it would be interesting to have the total number of languages, or even better, a List of all the languages in which a qur'an translation exists. Does anybody know? --Blauerflummi 22:45, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of languages in which the qur'an has been translated 

message: Many people regard this version as tainted by Wahhabi theology and anti-Christian and anti-Semitic sentiments. WP cannot state that this is the best version, as it is controversial. Zora 03:23, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing recommendation of Saudi version 

message: I will make some edits to the table: Some columns should be merged. Also Salman lived 1400 years ago. How could he make an English translation?! I will remove him. --Islamic 01:47, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changing the table 

message: Those were good edits, Korshid. The article flows very nicely now. However, it would be nice to have something more than personal impressions re popularity. I'm not going to complain and start putting fact after everything, since I'm aware that we may not be able to GET good figures. I'd suggest Amazon sales figures, but that wouldn't include Qur'ans sold through mosques or Islamic bookshops, which would probably seriously bias the results. Zora 06:34, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you Zora. In my opinion Amazon is not reliable because as you say it would bias the results. Vast majority of people still buy books from real stores, so maybe it is possible to consult bookseller trade report or something. There is this site: http://islam.about.com/cs/quran/tp/english_quran.htm but I don't think it's trustworthy because it says the Saudi translation is the #1. That and the #2 it lists I have never seen in bookstores or mosques. This makes it seem suspicious. But Yusuf Ali you find everywhere, even in mosques where hardly anyone speaks English! I have done some searching on Google and I am sure we can find more information, but I believe the searches show that Yusuf Ali is the "standard" among Muslims. It is interesting that there still is no 99.9% or even 99.8% accurate translation in English after all this time with all these Islamic scholars and departments in universities. Maybe is not possible, but I think a team of people would do a better job than one or two or the Saudi government! Khorshid 12:34, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I just ordered a used copy of Haleem's translation, published by the Oxford University Press. We'll see what that is like. It is quite recent. Zora 05:15, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Korshid's edits -- nice! 

message: I added a tag to indicate that the final paragraph needs sourcing.  The wording of the "...many Muslims consider..." bit in particular is very weasely, especially as there's no citation for it.  Keldan 16:44, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weasel-worded statement 

message: All other internet sources state that Abdullah Yusuf Ali was a sunni Muslim. It is correct that his original translation (with commentaries), Yusuf Ali stated positive words comments about the second and third Imam, Imam Hasan and Imam Husayn - but he was still a sunni Muslim. So it is wrong to state that his translation is a Shia translation. Can someone please confirm and correct it. --Imdkzmaa (talk) 18:53, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Abdullah Yusuf Ali]] was a sunni Muslim 

message: *
Might this worth be mentioning, just as an example? 129.237.172.81 (talk) 01:40, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Qu'ran translators imprisoned 

message: Can we include some female translators of the quran to English? Faro0485 (talk) 23:25, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Definitely, although I don't know of too many.VR talk 21:02, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Female translators 

message: Due to its increasing size and scope, I have created a new English translations page where merits, criticisms, and history of individual English translations can be posted. Have moved all external links pertaining to individual translations there as well. 
Henceforth, the English section on this page should be limited to a more "broad history of English translations" theme.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dungbeetle (talk • contribs) 07:07, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: New English Translations Page

message: The article currently says:
:The first complete translation of the Qur'an was completed in 884 CE in Alwar (today Sindh, Pakistan) by the orders of Abdullah bin Umar bin Abdul Aziz on the request of the Hindu Raja Mehruk.
The source for this is a dead link and it is unclear to which language it was translated then. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 09:34, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: First translation

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thread_title:  History of the translation into Chinese 

message: The current text says: The earliest known translation of the Qur'an in any European language was the Latin works by Robert of Ketton. However, it is also mentioned before that the translation of Qur'an in Greek took place, according to a previous part of the text: "The second known translation was into Greek and was used by Nicetas Byzantius, a scholar from Constantinople, in his 'Refutation of Quran' written between 855 and 870". Is the Greek language not considered an European language?. Regards --Basquetteur (talk) 17:50, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Earliest known translation of the Qur'an in any European language 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: What on earth does "its own re-tooled version" means? 31.52.255.22 (talk) 11:30, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re-tooled 

message: There are more than 300 translations Quran into Turkish (Istanbul Turkish, to be precise) 
Here is one of the studies about their classification:
Turkish Quran meals today: An assessment on classification
Hikmet Koçyiğit
Journal of Faculty of Theology of Istanbul University,37, 79-121
http://dx.doi.org/10.26650/ilahiyat.2017.19.2.0016
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/384167 (pdf)
There are many studies like this in the literature.
So it is unfair to talk about just a couple of them. In any Turkish Quran translation websites you can easily find dozens of Quran translations including old Turkish and even English translations for comparison. 79.123.129.20 (talk) 11:47, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Turkish translations