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 "label": {
  "en": "GloQur, Qur'an translation of the week #196 (Yakubovych Mykhaylo, 2024)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "تدوينة لميخايلو ياكوبوفيتش، 12 يوليو 2024، عن الترجمة اللاتفية الأدبية للقرآن التي وضعها الشاعر والمستشرق أولديس بيرزينش مع يانيس إسوتس، ونشرتها دار زفايغزني في ريغا.",
  "en": "A post by Mykhaylo Yakubovych, 12 July 2024, on the literary Latvian translation of the Qur'an by the poet and orientalist Uldis Bērziņš with Jānis Ešots, published by Zvaigzne ABC in Riga.",
  "ur": "میخائیلو یاکوبووچ کی تحریر، 12 جولائی 2024، شاعر اور مستشرق اولدیس بیرزنش کے یانس ایشوتس کے ساتھ کیے گئے لاتویائی ادبی ترجمۂ قرآن پر، جو ریگا کے زوائگزنے نے شائع کیا۔"
 },
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 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "secondary",
  "type": "web",
  "title": "Qur'an translation of the week #196: The Qur'an in Latvian by Uldis Bērziņš: a literary translation",
  "author": [
   {
    "family": "Yakubovych",
    "given": "Mykhaylo"
   }
  ],
  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
    [
     2024,
     7,
     12
    ]
   ]
  },
  "publisher": "GloQur – The Global Qur'an (University of Münster)",
  "URL": "https://gloqur.de/quran-translation-of-the-week-196-the-quran-in-latvian-by-uldis-berzins-a-literary-translation/",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "Signed research post, read in full in Chrome on 7 November 2026. Used for Bērziņš (1944–2021; Leningrad State University; poet and translator; Lund University; a member of the team for a new Latvian Bible; he identified as Lutheran, which the post states), his collaborator Jānis Ešots (1966–2011), the first edition by Zvaigzne ABC in Riga (2007, the post correcting The Muslim 500's 2009, though it also mentions a 2009 first edition), the 2011 second edition by Neputns, his stated literary aims and method, and its use by Latvian scholars. The other Latvian translations (an Ahmadiyya partial one; Imants Kalniņš, 2011) are context.",
  "open_access": true,
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-07",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}