Islam Translated

Islam Translated
Author: Ronit Ricci
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2011-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226710904

The spread of Islam eastward into South and Southeast Asia was one of the most significant cultural shifts in world history. As it expanded into these regions, Islam was received by cultures vastly different from those in the Middle East, incorporating them into a diverse global community that stretched from India to the Philippines. In Islam Translated, Ronit Ricci uses the Book of One Thousand Questions—from its Arabic original to its adaptations into the Javanese, Malay, and Tamil languages between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries—as a means to consider connections that linked Muslims across divides of distance and culture. Examining the circulation of this Islamic text and its varied literary forms, Ricci explores how processes of literary translation and religious conversion were historically interconnected forms of globalization, mutually dependent, and creatively reformulated within societies making the transition to Islam.

The Sublime Quran

The Sublime Quran
Author:
Publisher: Library of Islam, Limited
Total Pages: 772
Release: 2007
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

This is the first translation of the Quran by an American woman. It is a universal and inclusive translation with the hope that Islam will be better understood in the West. She also challenges the use of the wowrd "to beat" in 4: 34 as meaning "to go away" which is how the Prophet of Islam understood the word as it has historically justified violence against and abuse of Muslim women. "This interpretation must change," she says, "and revert to the way the Prophet understood it."

The Literature of Islam

The Literature of Islam
Author: Paula Youngman Skreslet
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2006
Genre: Islam
ISBN: 0810854082

Reference librarian and archivist Paula (Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education, Virginia) and Rebecca, a scholar of Arabic studies, present a critically annotated bibliography of central works on Islam that are available in English translation. They write for readers who are acquainted with the basic ideas, histo.

100 Books on Islam in English and the End of Orientalism in Islamic Studies

100 Books on Islam in English and the End of Orientalism in Islamic Studies
Author: Ghazi bin Muhammad (Prince of Jordan)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Islam
ISBN: 9781903682883

100 Books on Islam in English is a companion guide for anyone interested in reading about the different aspects of Islam. The author, HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, has created three main lists to help readers find their way to titles that give a true explanation of Islam: 25 Essential Books on Islam in English, 50 Excellent Books on Islam in English, and 25 Recommended Books on Islam in English. These three lists cover general introductions to Islam, Qur'anic studies, the life of the Prophet, doctrine, theology, philosophy, law, Sufism, history, culture, art, science, and politics. Finally, there is an additional list of 40 general titles that Muslim--and many other--readers will find beneficial.

Queer in Translation

Queer in Translation
Author: Evren Savci
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2020-12-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1478012854

In Queer in Translation, Evren Savcı analyzes the travel and translation of Western LGBT political terminology to Turkey in order to illuminate how sexual politics have unfolded under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's AKP government. Under the AKP's neoliberal Islamic regime, Savcı shows, there has been a stark shift from a politics of multicultural inclusion to one of securitized authoritarianism. Drawing from ethnographic work with queer activist groups to understand how discourses of sexuality travel and are taken up in political discourse, Savcı traces the intersection of queerness, Islam, and neoliberal governance within new and complex regimes of morality. Savcı turns to translation as a queer methodology to think Islam and neoliberalism together and to evade the limiting binaries of traditional/modern, authentic/colonial, global/local, and East/West—thereby opening up ways of understanding the social movements and political discourse that coalesce around sexual liberation in ways that do justice to the complexities both of what circulates under the signifier Islam and of sexual political movements in Muslim-majority countries.

Quran

Quran
Author: Talal Itani
Publisher: ClearQuran.com
Total Pages: 517
Release: 2014-08-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Perhaps the best Quran English translation. It is clear, easy to read, and very faithful to the Arabic original. It closely follows the Arabic text, and often reminds the reader of the Arabic original. It uses today's English language, and today's English vocabulary, thus it is easy to read and understand. The flow is smooth, the sentence structure is simple, the meaning is clear. This Quran translation has no interpretations, no footnotes, and no explanations. It is a pure translation of the Quran, from Arabic to English, and it does not try to emphasize any school of thought. The text purely and accurately translates the Holy Quran, from Arabic, into contemporary English. It was translated by a Muslim, who saw firsthand the miracles inside the Quran. His native language is Arabic; his everyday language is American English. For 15 years, he studied the Quran. For many years, he translated speech between his mother and his wife. For a living, he develops quality software. This Quran translation is available in two editions. This edition (A) uses the word "Allah" to refer to the Creator. Edition (B) uses the word "God". Quran Sura 91. The Sun. ash-Shams. In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. 1. By the sun and its radiance. 2. And the moon as it follows it. 3. And the day as it reveals it. 4. And the night as it conceals it. 5. And the sky and He who built it. 6. And the earth and He who spread it. 7. And the soul and He who proportioned it. 8. And inspired it with its wickedness and its righteousness. 9. Successful is he who purifies it. 10. Failing is he who corrupts it. 11. Thamood denied in its pride. 12. When it followed its most wicked. 13. The messenger of Allah said to them, "This is the she-camel of Allah, so let her drink." 14. But they called him a liar, and hamstrung her. So their Lord crushed them for their sin, and leveled it. 15. And He does not fear its sequel. The Quran is the last Book from the Creator. It contains guidance, mercy, and healing. The Quran is a blessing, within reach.

The Study Quran

The Study Quran
Author: Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 2048
Release: 2015-11-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0062227629

An accessible and accurate translation of the Quran that offers a rigorous analysis of its theological, metaphysical, historical, and geographical teachings and backgrounds, and includes extensive study notes, special introductions by experts in the field, and is edited by a top modern Islamic scholar, respected in both the West and the Islamic world. Drawn from a wide range of traditional Islamic commentaries, including Sunni and Shia sources, and from legal, theological, and mystical texts, The Study Quran conveys the enduring spiritual power of the Quran and offers a thorough scholarly understanding of this holy text. Beautifully packaged with a rich, attractive two-color layout, this magnificent volume includes essays by 15 contributors, maps, useful notes and annotations in an easy-to-read two-column format, a timeline of historical events, and helpful indices. With The Study Quran, both scholars and lay readers can explore the deeper spiritual meaning of the Quran, examine the grammar of difficult sections, and explore legal and ritual teachings, ethics, theology, sacred history, and the importance of various passages in Muslim life. With an introduction by its general editor, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, here is a nearly 2,000-page, continuous discussion of the entire Quran that provides a comprehensive picture of how this sacred work has been read by Muslims for over 1,400 years.

Holy Bible The Chrislam Muslim Translation of the Book of Mark

Holy Bible The Chrislam Muslim Translation of the Book of Mark
Author: Dan Plouff
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2020-05-04
Genre:
ISBN:

Introduction Blurb: A lot of people are confused about the differences between the Jesus of the KJV Bible, and the Jesus of the Quran of Islam. Christians oftentimes are so ignorant of Islam, and Mormonism, that they argue that the Quran, or Book of Mormon, can't be true if they contradict the KJV Bible, because they don't understand that the Quran says that the Bible was altered by copyist transcribers onto decaying scrolls repeatedly like the most credible historians and the NIV Bible itself says as well, while Joseph Smith said the Bible was mistranslated if it disagrees with Mormonism. This book explains the differences between the Quran and KJV Bible, and then it translates the book of Mark in the KJV Bible to instead be translated to say what the Quran says the gospel of Jesus originally said, while this book also reveals other evidence for why the Quran's version of Jesus could be possible. This book also reveals how 100% non-violent feminist Quranism Quran-only-Islam versions of the Quran are possible: like a Protestant Christian translation of the Quran, a Buddhist Quran, a Baha'i Quran, a Suffi Quran, a Yazdanism Quran, a Yarsanism Quran, a Gnostic Quran, a Scientology Quran like the Scientology Nation of Islam, a scientific Quran, an atheist Quran, a Deist Quran, a Pagan Quran, a Catholic Quran, a Freemason Quran, a monotheistic Hindu Quran, or other possible translations of the Quran. If the unscientific debunked untrustworthy Hadith like Bukhari are self-contradictory, contradict the Quran, and if each unscientific English Quran version contradicts itself in English, then this proves that new translations of the Quran, in a Quranist Quran-only-Islam, are possible. This book bridges the gap between Islam and Christianity, forming Chrislam as a stronger philosophical force in the world as a religion that is historically possible based on many different types of arguments. For comedic purposes the following sentence is used. Welcome to: the new world order, the forging of a one world religion from out of all of the world's major religions, the signing of the 7th age peace covenant by someone born with six letters in each of their three names whose last name is similar to that of President Obama's former campaign manager, a seven year peace treaty that will be signed every seven years by people with six letters in each of their three names on social media, the beginning of moving towards a United Nations one world government, and a big Illuminati sun eye of enlightenment that might actually be what is on the cover of this book hidden in plain sight instead of a bottomless pit of hellfire being what is actually on this book's cover. Conspiracy theories are very silly. Gandhi, and Baha'i, are some of the most famous versions of Chrislam that have emerged in the past. Gandhi said he was a Christian, a Muslim, a Hindu, and a Jew in the award winning Gandhi movie, and you can also listen to his audio books on Audible, while Baha'i audio books explain how Chrislam is possible as well. Baha'i also explains that the Mahdi could have already come, and that the Islamic prophesied apocalypse already could have happened, and was misunderstood in the metaphorical self-contradictory inaccurate Hadith, and mistranslated Quran, while Quranism eliminates the Hadith entirely so that the misinterpreted Quran could be translated in many 100% non-violent mystical Suffi, or Yazdanism, ways. Large portions of whole countries in Africa full of millions of people are practicing Chrislam today as a major world religion, while many major churches across the USA have both a Quran, and a Bible, in their churches, the same as in many Freemason temples of interfaith dialogue of peaceful Chrislam. If Quranism is true then there could be no Dajjal so there is nothing to fear?

Islam and the Foundations of Political Power

Islam and the Foundations of Political Power
Author: Ali Abdel Razek
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2013-09-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0748689400

The translation of an essay first published in Egypt in 1925, which took the contemporaries of its author by storm. At a time when the Muslim world was in great turmoil over the question of the abolition of the caliphate by Mustapha Kamal Ataturk in Turke

الشفاء: الالهيات

الشفاء: الالهيات
Author: Avicenna
Publisher: FARMS
Total Pages: 932
Release: 2005
Genre: Islamic philosophy
ISBN:

Within this emanative scheme we encounter some of the basic ideas of Avicenna's religious and political philosophy, including his discussion of the divine attributes, divine providence, the Hereafter, and the ideal, "virtuous" city with its philosopher-prophet as the recipient and conveyer of the revealed law, a human link between the celestial and the terrestrial worlds."--BOOK JACKET.