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 "label": {
  "en": "Khaled Abou El Fadl, 'Corrupting God's Book', chapter 57 of The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books (excerpt on Scholar of the House)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "فصل «إفساد كتاب الله» لخالد أبو الفضل، أستاذ الشريعة الإسلامية، من كتابه «البحث عن الجمال في الإسلام»، منشور على موقع «سكولار أوف ذا هاوس»، ينتقد فيه ترجمة الهلالي وخان، ولا سيما إضافاتها بين الأقواس في آيات الحجاب والقوامة، ونسبتها إلى الطبري والقرطبي وابن كثير ما لم يقولوه.",
  "en": "The chapter 'Corrupting God's Book' by the Islamic law professor Khaled Abou El Fadl, from his book The Search for Beauty in Islam, published on the Scholar of the House website, criticising the Hilali–Khan translation, especially its bracketed additions in the verses on veiling and on husbands and wives, and its attribution to al-Tabari, al-Qurtubi and Ibn Kathir of views they do not hold.",
  "ur": "اسلامی قانون کے پروفیسر خالد ابو الفضل کا باب «کرپٹنگ گاڈز بک»، ان کی کتاب «دی سرچ فار بیوٹی ان اسلام» سے، اسکالر آف دی ہاؤس ویب سائٹ پر، جس میں وہ ہلالی و خان کے ترجمے، خصوصاً پردے اور میاں بیوی سے متعلق آیات میں قوسین کے اضافوں اور طبری، قرطبی اور ابن کثیر کی طرف ان آرا کی نسبت پر تنقید کرتے ہیں جو ان کی نہیں۔"
 },
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  "kind": "secondary",
  "type": "web",
  "title": "Chapter 57: Corrupting God's Book (The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books)",
  "author": [
   {
    "family": "Abou El Fadl",
    "given": "Khaled"
   }
  ],
  "publisher": "Scholar of the House",
  "URL": "https://scholarofthehouse.org/exbykhabelfa2.html",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "The author's own text, read in full on 7 November 2026 through the Wayback Machine capture of 25 April 2024 (https://web.archive.org/web/20240425012439/http://www.scholarofthehouse.org/exbykhabelfa2.html), because the live page returned an error; located through the English Wikipedia article 'Noble Quran (Hilali–Khan)' (revision 1375969952), at the founder's go-ahead of 7 November 2026. The page carries no date of its own and the book's year is not given on it, so none is recorded. Used for the author's critique as he states it: that the bracketed insertions present one narrow reading as the text itself (his examples include the verses on women's dress and on husbands and wives), that the footnoted hadith is mistranslated, and that the classical commentators named on the cover report a range of views; attributed to him. No passage is reproduced.",
  "open_access": true,
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)"
  }
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 "updated": "2026-11-07",
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 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
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