| Edition |
Revised edition |
| Descript |
xvii, 613 pages 24 cm |
| Series |
Penguin classics
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Penguin classics
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| Note |
The Arabic text in this parallel edition is a facsimile of a Koran penned by the calligrapher Hamid al-Amidi and first printed in Istanbul in 1974 in accordance with Decision Number 212 of the Turkish Government's Commission on the Verification of Koranic Texts. - Title page verso |
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English translation first published: Penguin Classics, 1956 |
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Includes index |
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ISLAM. N. J. Dawood's masterful translation of the Koran, with parallel Arabic text. "Across the language barrier Dawood captures the thunder and poetry of the original". (The Times). The Koran is universally accepted by Muslims to be the infallible Word of God as first revealed to the Prophet Muhammad by the Angel Gabriel nearly fourteen hundred years ago. Its 114 chapters, or surahs, recount the narratives central to Muslim belief, and together they form one of the world's most influential prophetic works and a literary masterpiece in its own right. But, above all, the Koran provides the rules of conduct that remain fundamental to the Muslim faith today: prayer, fasting, almsgiving, pilgrimage to Mecca and absolute faith in God and His apostle |
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Parallel Arabic text and English translation |
| Subject |
Koranen
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Religiona
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| Classmark |
297.122
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Cmdd.01
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| Alt Auth |
Dawood, N. J.
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| ISBN/ISSN |
9780141393841 |
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014139384X |
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