Bruce B. Lawrence

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...

The untold story of how the Arabic Qur'an became the English Koran For millions of Muslims, the Qur'an is sacred only in Arabic, the original Arabic in which it was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century. To many Arab and non-Arab believers alike, the book literally defies translation, yet English translations are growing in both number and...