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Authors: Ahmed Ali
ISBN-13: 9780691074993, ISBN-10: 0691074992
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: July 2001
Edition: Bilingual

Author Biography: Ahmed Ali

Book Synopsis

"This translation of the Qur'an aims at doing something new--it seeks to bring out the original rhythms of the Quranic language and the cadences. It also departs from traditional translations in that it gives more refined and differentiated shades of important concepts."--Fazlur Rahman, University of Chicago

"Ahmed Ali's work is clear, direct, and elegant--a combination of stylistic virtues almost never found in translations of the Qur'an. His is the best I have read."--F. E. Peters, New York University

	Acknowledgements	6
	By Way of Preface	7
1	The Prologue	11
2	The Cow	12
3	The Family of Imran	51
4	The Women	73
5	The Feast	97
6	The Cattle	114
7	Wall Between Heaven and Hell	133
8	Spoils of War	154
9	Repentance	162
10	Jonah	177
11	Hud	188
12	Joseph	200
13	Thunder	211
14	Abraham	217
15	Al-Hijr	223
16	The Bees	228
17	The Children of Israel	240
18	The Cave	250
19	Mary	260
20	Ta Ha	266
21	The Prophets	275
22	The Pilgrimage	283
23	The True Believers	291
24	The Light	298
25	The Criterion	306
26	The Poets	312
27	An-Naml	321
28	The History	329
29	The Spider	337
30	The Romans	343
31	Luqman	348
32	As-Sajdah	352
33	The Allied Troops	355
34	Sheba	363
35	The Originator	368
36	Ya Sin	373
37	Who Stand Arrayed in Rows	378
38	Sad	385
39	The Small Groups	391
40	The Believer	399
41	Adoration	407
42	Consultation	412
43	Ornaments of Gold	418
44	Smoke	424
45	Kneeling	427
46	Al-Ahqaf	431
47	Muhammad	435
48	Victory	439
49	Apartments	443
50	Qaf	446
51	The Dispersing	449
52	The Mount	452
53	The Star	455
54	The Moon	458
55	Ar-Rahman	461
56	The Inevitable	465
57	Iron	469
58	The Disputant	473
59	Confrontation	476
60	The Woman Tried	479
61	Formations	482
62	The Congregation	484
63	The Hypocrites	486
64	Exposition	488
65	Divorce	490
66	Prohibition	492
67	The Kingdom	494
68	The Pen	497
69	The Concrete Reality	500
70	The Steps	502
71	Noah	504
72	The Jinns	506
73	The Enwrapped	508
74	The Enfolded	510
75	The Resurrection	512
76	Time	514
77	The Emissaries	516
78	The Announcement	518
79	Those Who Pull and Withdraw	520
80	He Made a Wry Face	522
81	The Folding up	524
82	The Splitting	526
83	The defrauders	527
84	The Cleaving	529
85	Signs of the Zodiac	530
86	The Night Star	531
87	The Most High	532
88	The Overpowering	533
89	The Dawn	535
90	The Earth	537
91	The Sun	538
92	The Night	539
93	Early Hours of Morning	540
94	The Opening Up	541
95	The Fig	542
96	The Embryo	543
97	Determination	544
98	The Clear Proof	545
99	The Earthquake	546
100	The Chargers	547
101	The Calamity	548
102	Plenitude	549
103	Time and Age	550
104	The Slanderer	551
105	The Elephants	552
106	The Quraish	553
107	Things of Common Use	554
108	Pre-eminence	555
109	The Unbelievers	556
110	Help	557
111	Abu Lahab	558
112	Pure Faith	559
113	The Rising Day	560
114	Men	561
	Index	563
	Index of Names	571

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