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Brilliant I have quite a few translations but this is by far the best, its so simple to read and understand. Commentary is short and the flow is good. Simple summary at the beginning is really good. Would recommend this to anyone and everyone as the 1st translation that should be read.
Use it together with Arberry's translation The Quran is both a sacred text and a supreme work of Arabic poetry. This puts the translator in a dilemma: To convey the religious teaching, the text needs to be rendered into modern prose, which loses the poetry. To convey the poetry, one must render the text as a poem in modern language, which then tends to obscure the religious teaching. Neither approach can fully translate the original. Abdel Haleem's translation is a masterful rendition into modern English prose. For rendition as modern English... more info
Revolutionary translation, very clear, straightforward and understandable The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics) by M.A. Abdel Haleem (translator) is simply the best version of the Qur'an available to the English speaking world today. It uses modern English and does not attempt to copy the old English of the King James bible (which most English translations of the Qur'an attempt to copy). Furthermore, the translator (Abdel Haleem) understands that the sentence structure of Arabic and English is different and translating the text word for word will make it incomprehensible, an... more info
Easy to read and understand This was the 2nd copy of a English translation of the Quran and I found it really easy to read and understand. I found other transslations of the Quran hard to understand as they were written in old English but this one is written in moden English so easyer for me to read and understand.
