The Koran is the name of a translation of the Qur'an written by
John Medows RodwellJohn Medows Rodwell was an English Non-Muslim Islamic scholar.- External links :* includes the Qur'an translation of John Medows Rodwell....
. It uses a chronological method of sorting verses in the Koran and is noticeably skeptical of
IslamIslam Islam Islam ( al-’islām,
[There are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or , and whether the a is pronounced as in father, as in cat, or (when the stress is on the i) as in the a of sofa...]
. Rodwell's translation has not aged well with time and many find it inferior to other, more modern translations.
However, in its time, the Rodwell version was considered to be accurate in spite of its faults. A century later, David Lean's 1962 film
Lawrence of ArabiaLawrence of Arabia is a 1962 British epic film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Austrian Sam Spiegel , from a script by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson...
used the Rodwell translation in the episode in which Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) and Feisal (Alec Guinness) alternately recite verses from what Rodwell calls "The Brightness"
sura (
Ad-DhuhaSurat Ad-Dhuha is the 93rd sura of the Qur'an with 11 ayat.Although there is some debate amongst scholars, this sura in often considered to be the second revealed to Muhammad. After the first sura was received, there was a period of silence in which no further messages were revealed...
).
- List of translations of the Qur'an
- Online Quran Project
The Online Quran Project is a quranic project launched in late 2007, aiming to provide an online, multilingual searchable Qur’an text with worldwide translations. The site is translated into several languages, as it is used by Muslims and non-Muslims worldwide...
- Ali Ünal
Ali Ünal is a Turkish author closely associated with the Gülen Movement, a modernist Islamic group in Turkey. In addition to being an author, Ali Ünal is a prolific translator of works with an Islamic theme into English, and has translated into English many works by Fethullah Gülen, the spiritual...
A comparison of different translation including J.Mm Rodwell's and Ali Ünal Quran translation.
- Zwemer, Samuel M.
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The Koran is the name of a translation of the Qur'an written by
John Medows RodwellJohn Medows Rodwell was an English Non-Muslim Islamic scholar.- External links :* includes the Qur'an translation of John Medows Rodwell....
. It uses a chronological method of sorting verses in the Koran and is noticeably skeptical of
IslamIslam Islam Islam ( al-’islām,
[There are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or , and whether the a is pronounced as in father, as in cat, or (when the stress is on the i) as in the a of sofa...]
. Rodwell's translation has not aged well with time and many find it inferior to other, more modern translations.
However, in its time, the Rodwell version was considered to be accurate in spite of its faults. A century later, David Lean's 1962 film
Lawrence of ArabiaLawrence of Arabia is a 1962 British epic film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Austrian Sam Spiegel , from a script by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson...
used the Rodwell translation in the episode in which Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) and Feisal (Alec Guinness) alternately recite verses from what Rodwell calls "The Brightness"
sura (
Ad-DhuhaSurat Ad-Dhuha is the 93rd sura of the Qur'an with 11 ayat.Although there is some debate amongst scholars, this sura in often considered to be the second revealed to Muhammad. After the first sura was received, there was a period of silence in which no further messages were revealed...
).
See also
- List of translations of the Qur'an
- Online Quran Project
The Online Quran Project is a quranic project launched in late 2007, aiming to provide an online, multilingual searchable Qur’an text with worldwide translations. The site is translated into several languages, as it is used by Muslims and non-Muslims worldwide...
- Ali Ünal
Ali Ünal is a Turkish author closely associated with the Gülen Movement, a modernist Islamic group in Turkey. In addition to being an author, Ali Ünal is a prolific translator of works with an Islamic theme into English, and has translated into English many works by Fethullah Gülen, the spiritual...
A comparison of different translation including J.Mm Rodwell's and Ali Ünal Quran translation.
- Zwemer, Samuel M. Translations of the Koran, The Moslem World, July 1915, pp. 244–261.
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