Uniform title | Qurʾan. English (Habib-Lawrence) |
Abstract |
"Islam's founding text, rendered for the first time in flowing English verse. This monumental feat of translation, the product of a ten-year-long collaboration between one of our most respected scholars of Islam (Bruce B. Lawrence) and a poet and scholar of literature (M. A. R. Habib), The Qur'an: A Verse Translation offers readers the first rendering in English to echo, in accessible and fluent verse, the sonorous beauty of the Arabic original as well as the complex nuances of its meaning."--Book jacket inside flap. |
Abstract |
A monumental feat of translation: Islam's founding text rendered in limpid English verse that echoes the sublimity of the Arabic original. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [541]-600). |
Language | In English; translated from the Arabic. |
Genre/form | Sacred works. |
Genre/form | Livres sacrés. |
ISBN | 9780871404992 |
ISBN | 0871404990 |