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 "label": {
  "en": "Mail & Guardian, 'A redeeming take on the Qur'an' (Ziauddin Sardar, 23 July 2008)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مراجعة لضياء الدين سردار في صحيفة «ميل آند غارديان»، 23 يوليو 2008، لترجمة طريف الخالدي «القرآن: ترجمة جديدة» في سلسلة كلاسيكيات بنغوين، يقارنها فيها بترجمة داود السابقة في السلسلة نفسها وبترجمتي عبد الحليم وآربري.",
  "en": "Ziauddin Sardar's review in the Mail & Guardian, 23 July 2008, of Tarif Khalidi's The Qur'an: A New Translation in Penguin Classics, comparing it with N. J. Dawood's earlier Penguin translation and with those of Abdel Haleem and Arberry.",
  "ur": "میل اینڈ گارڈین میں ضیاء الدین سردار کا تبصرہ، 23 جولائی 2008، طریف خالدی کے «دی قرآن: اے نیو ٹرانسلیشن» ⁦(پینگوئن کلاسکس)⁩ پر، جس میں اس کا موازنہ اسی سلسلے میں داؤد کے پرانے ترجمے اور عبد الحلیم و آربری کے تراجم سے کیا گیا ہے۔"
 },
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  "kind": "secondary",
  "type": "article",
  "title": "A redeeming take on the Qur'an",
  "author": [
   {
    "family": "Sardar",
    "given": "Ziauddin"
   }
  ],
  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
    [
     2008,
     7,
     23
    ]
   ]
  },
  "publisher": "Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg)",
  "URL": "https://mg.co.za/friday/2008-07-23-a-redeeming-take-on-the-qur-an/",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "Signed review in a national weekly, read in full in Chrome on 6 November 2026 (the byline is printed 'Ziaudauddin'). Used for Khalidi's post at the American University of Beirut, the publication in Penguin Classics as a new translation in 2008, the reviewer's account of its method (the seven tropes, prose and verse layouts), its gender-neutral renderings compared with Dawood, the absence of context notes, the verse numbering in the margins, no chapter numbers and no index, and the reviewer's verdict, attributed to him.",
  "open_access": true,
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)"
  }
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 "updated": "2026-11-06",
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 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}