{
 "id": "source/gloqur-korani-kerim-shemsuddin",
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 "slug": "gloqur-korani-kerim-shemsuddin",
 "label": {
  "en": "GloQur, Qur'an translation of the week #210 (Yakubovych Mykhaylo, 2025)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "تدوينة لميخايلو ياكوبوفيتش، 24 يناير 2025، عن ترجمة محمد شمس الدين البلغارية للقرآن، التي كُتبت سرًّا في العهد الشيوعي وتداولت نسخة مطبوعة على الآلة الكاتبة سنة 1986، ثم طبعة ثانية آخر سنة 1990.",
  "en": "A post by Mykhaylo Yakubovych, 24 January 2025, on Mohammed Shemsuddin's Bulgarian translation of the Qur'an, written clandestinely under communism and circulated as a typescript in 1986, with a second edition at the end of 1990.",
  "ur": "میخائیلو یاکوبووچ کی تحریر، 24 جنوری 2025، محمد شمس الدین کے بلغاری ترجمۂ قرآن پر، جو کمیونسٹ دور میں خفیہ طور پر لکھا گیا اور 1986 میں ٹائپ شدہ نسخے کی صورت میں پھیلا، اور 1990 کے آخر میں دوسری اشاعت آئی۔"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "secondary",
  "type": "web",
  "title": "Qur'an translation of the week #210: Korani Kerim by Mohammed Shemsuddin: an illegal Bulgarian translation of the Qur'an composed during the communist era",
  "author": [
   {
    "family": "Yakubovych",
    "given": "Mykhaylo"
   }
  ],
  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
    [
     2025,
     1,
     24
    ]
   ]
  },
  "publisher": "GloQur – The Global Qur'an (University of Münster)",
  "URL": "https://gloqur.de/quran-translation-of-the-week-210-korani-kerim-by-mohammed-shemsuddin-an-illegal-bulgarian-translation-of-the-quran-composed-during-the-communist-era/",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "Signed research post, read in full in Chrome on 7 November 2026. Used for the translator (Mehmed Tabakov, 1937–2010, a village preacher of the Turkish-speaking minority, reportedly once arrested for religious activity), the start of the work in the mid-1980s, the typewritten first edition of 1986 under the title Budilnik na Muslimanite and the revised second edition of late 1990 (Korani Kerim), its survival in libraries and on Bgislam.com, its foreword, its sura introductions and lack of commentary, and the reviewer's finding that its main source was Ali Fikri Yavuz's Turkish translation (1967).",
  "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"
 }
}