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• The Hebrew translation of al-Muntakhab fi Tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim 2023 Book

  A Hebrew translation of al-Muntakhab fi Tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim, the concise commentary written at al-Azhar in the 1950s and published in 1961, issued by the Egyptian Ministry of Awqaf in 2023 after six months of work and translated by Sa'id Muttawi', chair of Hebrew language and literature at Cairo University, with his assistant Ali Annan; it carries the Arabic text of the Qur'an, al-Muntakhab's notes and sura introductions, keeps Arabic names as they are, and was described by the minister as the first tafsir of the Qur'an in Hebrew.

• Salsabil: A Translation of the Meanings of the Great Qur'an (Aslan Arkhestov et al.) 2022 Book

  A Russian rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an whose first part appeared in 2022 as an 'experimental edition', from al-Fatiha to verse 93 of al-Tawba, with a second edition in 2023 including the whole of al-Tawba; prepared by a team led by the preacher Aslan Arkhestov, known as Abu Islam al-Sharkasi, with five assistant editors, four of them women, and published by the online Rayhan Institute, with the Arabic text and without introduction or notes.

• The Rohingya translation of the Qur'an 2021 Book

  A project to translate the meanings of the Qur'an into Rohingya, the language of the persecuted Muslims of Arakan in Myanmar, begun by the Rohingya scholar Qutub Shah of the International Islamic University Malaysia with Dakwah Corner Bookstore of Petaling Jaya; a spoken translation came first, made between early 2021 and August 2023 and read by Qutub Shah alongside the recitation of Muhammad Ayyub, released in an app, a website and on social media, followed by a written translation in the Hanifi script that so far covers the first five suras.

• Koran Sudrïn (the Mongolian translation of the Qur'an) 2020 Book

  A Mongolian rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an published by the Turkish Presidency of Religious Affairs in 2020 as a gift to the people of Mongolia, translated from the Arabic by Marhabagayin Salih, a teacher of Arabic, with Bezhzhegiyin Battogtoh as Islamic proofreader and Taukein Sultan as editor; the idea came from Mongolia's Kazakh Muslim minority, it has no notes beyond short bracketed insertions and an index of terms, and it is distributed free in large numbers.

• Al-Qur'an Adventure (alQosbah) 2020 Book

  An interactive Indonesian Qur'an from alQosbah, a Qur'an-only publisher founded in Indonesia in 2020 that has distributed over ten million copies; it combines the Ministry of Religious Affairs translation with thematic subheadings, a word-for-word translation based on Ibn Kathir's linguistic exegesis, QR codes on every page opening animated Qur'anic stories, 31 stories and 76 lessons supported by hadith, colour-coded tajwid and memorisation aids.

• The Majestic Qur'an (Musharraf Hussain) 2018 Book

  A 'plain English' rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by Musharraf Hussain, an al-Azhar graduate and British educationist, published by Invitation Publishing in Nottingham in 2018 with sura introductions, topical headings, marginal reflection questions and sparing footnotes, and an endorsement from Egypt's Dar al-Ifta in its front matter; after British imams discussed criticisms concerning doctrine, the translator published an errata list and said the revised work was fully in line with the creed of al-Nasafi.

• My First Qur'an with Pictures: Juz' Amma (Shereen Sharief) 2018 Book

  An illustrated English children's translation of the suras of Juz' Amma by Shereen Sharief, a UK pharmacist born into a Kurdish family who grew up in Iraq, illustrated by a British artist and checked and approved by Abdullah ibn Yusuf al-Judai; Part 1, of 47 pages covering twenty-five suras from al-Nas to al-Balad, came out in 2018 and has been reprinted more than three times, Part 2 followed in 2019, and it is distributed in the UK and many other countries, with Spanish and Italian versions.

• De Koran: uitleg voor kinderen (Abdul Wahid van Bommel) 2017 Book

  The first interpretation of the Qur'an for children in Dutch, by Abdul Wahid van Bommel, an imam and professor at the Islamic University of Rotterdam, in a series of volumes, the first in 2017, the second in 2020 and the third in 2024, each centred on one of the five resolute prophets; he translates the selected verses himself and explains them in a 'philosophising with children' style for ages ten to fourteen, with illustrations by the Bosnian artist Senad Alić.

• The Clear Quran: A Thematic English Translation 2015 Book

  An English rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by the Canadian–Egyptian scholar and imam Mustafa Khattab, published by the Book of Signs Foundation in Lombard, Illinois (2016 according to the Global Qur'an project, 2015 in the Wikipedia list), in contemporary Canadian English, arranged in thematic paragraphs with headers, a short introduction to each sura, moderate footnotes and half brackets for explanatory insertions; it became the default translation on quran.com in 2020, is distributed at a low price by Darussalam, and has grown into a whole series of editions.

• Generoso Corano (Sheikh Othman) 2015 Book

  An Italian rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by Sheikh Othman of the Islamic Cultural Center of Fondi, completed on 19 September 2015 and first published that year, with a second edition in 2020 by the Conveying Islamic Message Society of Alexandria distributed free; in modern Italian on the Hafs reading, close to literal with a few footnotes, giving Arabic names in parentheses and mirroring the mushaf's 604 pages and markings; a letter attributed to al-Azhar printed at its end raised questions for the reviewer.

• Submission 2015 Book

  Houellebecq's 2015 novel imagining France under a moderate Islamist party — a cultural flashpoint, indexed neutrally.

• The Meaning of the Glorious Qur'an (Pickthall), Best Speech Society revised edition 2015 Book

  An extensively revised edition of Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall's English translation of the Qur'an (1930), issued by the Best Speech Society of Cairo and distributed free, which Johanna Pink found at the Mosque of Ibn Tulun in May 2023; its editor Khaled Mohammad Fahmy replaced archaic wording with modern English and changed Pickthall's choices in almost every verse for doctrinal accuracy, drawing on commentaries and translations including those of Yusuf Ali, Hilali–Khan, Saheeh International, Abdel Haleem and Khattab.

• The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary 2015 Book

  A new English translation of the Qur'an with extensive commentary, edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr as editor-in-chief with Caner K. Dagli, Maria Massi Dakake and Joseph E. B. Lumbard as general editors and Mohammed Rustom as assistant editor, published in the United States by HarperOne in 2015 in 2,048 pages; ten years in the making, its notes gather the readings of many classical Sunni and Shia commentaries, and it adds essays on Qur'anic themes; Nasr made it a condition that the team be Muslims and his former students, and it was widely welcomed, with some reservations voiced.

• Vishudda Qur'an Vivarthanam (Bahauddeen Muhammed Nadwi) 2015 Book

  A Malayalam rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by Bahauddeen Muhammed Nadwi, co-founder of Darul Huda Islamic University in Kerala and its vice chancellor since 2009, begun in 2004 and published in one volume in 2015; it is the first Malayalam translation to set the verses, in their canonical order, in thematic paragraphs, with a long preface on the purposes of the Qur'an, commentary on the occasions of revelation and what he presents as its 'scientific miracles', and maps of the events of the Prophet's life.

• Kur'an Gerçek (Ali Rıza Safa) 2014 Book

  A Turkish rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by Ali Rıza Safa, first published in 2014 by Ileri in Istanbul, then in editions with introduction and commentary (2018) and text-only editions up to 2021 under the title Kur'an-i Kerim Gerçek; it deliberately replaces Arabic religious vocabulary with vernacular Turkish, its translator holds that the Qur'an may be read in Turkish in prayer, and scholars in Kayseri objected in 2016 that it distorts the text.

• Frankenstein in Baghdad 2013 Book

  Ahmed Saadawi's IPAF-winning novel — a creature stitched from bombing victims walks post-2003 Baghdad.

• What is in the Quran? Message of the Quran in Simple English (Abdur Raheem Kidwai) 2013 Book

  A simple-English presentation of the meanings of the Qur'an by Abdur Raheem Kidwai of Aligarh Muslim University, well known for his bibliographies of English Qur'an translations, first published in 2013 and in a revised third edition by Viva Books, New Delhi, in 2023; its author describes it as not strictly a translation but a paraphrase of the meaning and message of the Qur'an, with 410 footnotes introducing basic Islamic concepts.

• Alif the Unseen 2012 Book

  G. Willow Wilson's techno-fantasy of an Arab hacker and an ancient jinn manuscript — code, Sufism and the Arab Spring.

• The Bamboo Stalk 2012 Book

  Saud Alsanousi's IPAF winner about a half-Kuwaiti, half-Filipino youth negotiating faith, class and belonging.

• Anugerah Al-Quranul-Karim Tarjamah Basa Sunda (Maryati Sastrawijaya) 2011 Book

  A complete Sundanese rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by Mariyah Maryati Sastrawijaya, a former lecturer in Sundanese at Padjadjaran University, completed in 2011 after a first part published in 2009 and issued by the university's alumni association in five volumes; it is the only complete Qur'an translation by an Indonesian woman, written in everyday Sundanese with care for the language's speech registers and following mainly the official Indonesian translation in its 1990 King Fahd Complex edition.

• My First Al-Qur'an (MyFA, Syaamil) 2010 Book

  An Indonesian children's Qur'an launched by the Syaamil Group of Bandung in 2010, in two parts: the Arabic mushaf in two volumes, and the 2004 edition of the Ministry of Religious Affairs translation, verbatim, in two volumes with the sira, stories of the prophets, a map of the Prophet's da'wa journeys, 'Now I Know' notes and a trilingual dictionary, printed on coloured paper with a durable cover; it was among the group's most successful products in 2010–2012 and was sold with an e-pen.

• The Forty Rules of Love 2009 Book

  Elif Shafak's global bestseller on Shams of Tabriz and Rumi, with a modern parallel story — the most popular Sufi novel of the century.

• Azazeel 2008 Book

  Youssef Ziedan's IPAF-winning novel about a fifth-century Egyptian monk accompanying Nestorius — theological fiction that stirred church controversy.

• The Jewel of Medina 2008 Book

  Sherry Jones's novel about Aisha — Random House dropped it amid controversy before Beaufort published it; a case study in depicting the Prophet's household.

• Koranas (literatūrinių prasmių vertimas) (Sigitas Geda) 2008 Book

  The first complete translation of the Qur'an into Lithuanian, by the Lithuanian poet and translator Sigitas Geda, published in 2008 in 1,000 copies that sold quickly and based mainly on the Russian translations of Sablukov and Krachkovsky; criticised by Muslim activists and scholars for distorting Qur'anic terms, it was revised by the mufti of Lithuania, Romas Jakubauskas, and a revised edition appeared in 2010 with him named as second translator and the Muftiate's approval.

• The Textual Translation for The Qur'aan The Supreme (Abdulaziz AlMubarak) 2008 Book

  An English translation of the Qur'an by the Saudi Abdulaziz F. AlMubarak of al-Ahsa, first published in Beirut in 2008 and constantly revised since, on a strictly literal method that rejects translation by meaning: it follows the Arabic word by word, transliterates Arabic terms in its own system and marks grammar with superscript letters, with an introduction of nearly ninety pages; Johanna Pink finds the result impenetrable for readers.

• The Qur'an: A New Translation (Tarif Khalidi) 2008 Book

  An English rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by the historian Tarif Khalidi, professor of Islamic studies at the American University of Beirut, published in Penguin Classics in 2008 as the successor to N. J. Dawood's old Penguin translation; it tries to convey the Qur'an's rhythm and structure, setting narrative and legislative passages as prose and dramatic and metaphysical ones in verse form, without context notes, and Ziauddin Sardar called it a magnificent achievement while faulting its numbering and its lack of an index.

• Kube Publishing 2007 Publisher

  An independent British publishing house established in 2007 that publishes general-interest, academic and children's books on Islam and the Muslim experience, handles the imprint of the Islamic Foundation (established 1973), distributes for other Muslim publishers and wholesales mainstream publishers' titles to Muslim booksellers.

• A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007 Book

  Hosseini's novel of Mariam and Laila — thirty years of Afghan women's lives through civil war and Taliban rule.

• I Lovë My al-Quran (ILMA) 2007 Book

  An illustrated Indonesian children's Qur'an with translation and simplified interpretation, published by Pelangi Mizan in 2007, with a second edition in 2008 and a 2015 relaunch with educational games and a smart pen; the package comprises the mushaf in fifteen volumes and fifteen volumes of simplified interpretation and translation based on the Ministry of Religious Affairs translation, with a dictionary and audio, written mainly by Irfan Amalee with a team of over twenty scholars, endorsed by figures from Indonesia's main Islamic organisations, and discontinued after 2019.

• The Latvian translation of the Qur'an (Uldis Bērziņš) 2007 Book

  A literary rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an into Latvian by the Latvian poet, translator and orientalist Uldis Bērziņš with the scholar of Persian philosophy Jānis Ešots, first published in Riga by Zvaigzne ABC and in a revised second edition by Neputns in 2011; it seeks to convey the Qur'an's style and imitate its Arabic syntax, is counted the first complete Latvian translation to be published, and is still cited by scholars in Latvia.

• The Meanings of the Noble Qur'an with Explanatory Notes (Taqi Usmani) 2007 Book

  An English rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by Muhammad Taqi Usmani, first published in 2007 by Maktaba Ma'ariful Quran in Karachi and in a luxury edition by Turath of London in 2020 as The Noble Qur'an: Meaning with Explanatory Notes; it grew out of the committee that translated his father Muhammad Shafi's tafsir Ma'ariful Qur'an into English, and carries an introduction on the history and interpretation of the Qur'an, sura introductions, notes drawn mainly from Deobandi scholarship, and a thematic index.

• The Sublime Quran (Laleh Bakhtiar) 2007 Book

  An English rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by the Iranian-American Laleh Bakhtiar, published in 2007, on what she called a concordance-based method resting on Arabic word roots, without notes or commentary, and using 'God' for the divine name; best known for her rendering of a verse of Surat al-Nisa' on the treatment of a wife, it met acclaim and criticism in almost equal measure, including Khaled Abou El Fadl's doubts about her Arabic, and Bakhtiar republished the text in several forms up to 2016; she died in 2020.

• The Ahmadiyya Russian translation of the Qur'an (Khalid Ahmad and Ravil Bukharaev) 2006 Book

  The Ahmadiyya (Qadiani) community's official Russian rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an, first published in 2006; translated from the Arabic by Khalid Ahmad with Rustam Khamatvaleev and revised, edited and prefaced by the Tatar writer Ravil Bukharaev, it relies on Mirza Tahir Ahmad's Urdu commentary and openly presents the Ahmadiyya interpretation, which is why many of Tatarstan's Sunni clergy saw it as dangerous.

• The Art and Architecture of Islamic Cairo 2006 Book

  Richard Yeomans's English survey (Garnet, 2006) of the architecture and decorative arts of Islamic Cairo from the Arab conquest of 642 to the Ottoman conquest of 1517, dynasty by dynasty, from the Mosque of Amr to the Burji Mamluk foundations.

• Kurany Kerim. Türkmen dilinde (Directorate of the Mufti of Turkmenistan) 2006 Book

  A Turkmen rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an issued by the Directorate of the Mufti of Turkmenistan, first published in 2006 as the official translation, with the Arabic text in a parallel column, short sura introductions, bracketed interpretive insertions and explanations corresponding mainly to mainstream Sunni readings, and no translators named; printed in small numbers, it is found in the larger mosques, central libraries and Turkmen Islamic websites, and holds a near-monopoly among Turkmen readers at home and abroad.

• Minaret 2005 Book

  Aboulela's novel of a Sudanese diplomat's daughter turned London servant who finds Islam seriously in exile.

• The Sabils in the Islamic Architecture of Mecca and Medina 2004 Book

  A historical and archaeological study by Muhammad Hamza Isma'il al-Haddad (Cairo, 2004) of the water sabils of Mecca, Medina and the pilgrim roads, in two chapters: a history of the siqayas and sabils period by period, and an archaeological study of their types.

• Kuran s prijevodom (Esad Duraković) 2004 Book

  A Bosnian rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by the Bosnian Arabist Esad Duraković, completed in 2002 and published with the Arabic text in one volume by Svjetlost in Sarajevo in 2004; it sets out to convey the Qur'an's rhetoric, including iltifat, rendering the Meccan suras in rhymed verse and the Medinan mostly in prose, with short notes generally in line with mainstream Sunni views; it drew attention in scholarly circles, and other translators criticised its inconsistency of terms.

• The Qur'an: A New Translation (Abdel Haleem) 2004 Book

  An English rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by Muhammad A. S. Abdel Haleem, professor of Islamic studies at SOAS, University of London, published by Oxford University Press in 2004 and then in Oxford World's Classics; the publisher describes it as plain modern English free of archaisms, identifying the dialogue addressed to the Prophet, adding paragraphing and punctuation and setting verse numbers in small superscript, with an introduction on the revelation, compilation, style and questions of interpretation, notes explaining allusions, and a thematic index.

• The Kite Runner 2003 Book

  Khaled Hosseini's novel of friendship and guilt in Kabul across the Soviet invasion and Taliban rule — the widest-read Afghan novel.

• Alxuraan: the Wolof translation of Assane Sylla 2003 Book

  A Wolof rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by the Senegalese thinker Assane Sylla, published by the Libya-based World Islamic Call Society in 2003 in Senegal's official Latin script, with the Arabic text on the facing page in the Hafs reading, without footnotes, and with the sura names translated into Wolof; with an Ahmadiyya translation it is the first modern complete Wolof Qur'an, and it drew on recorded tafsir lessons of Dakar scholars, Ibn Kathir and French translations.

• Asma al-Matalib fi Sirat Amir al-Mu'minin Ali ibn Abi Talib 2003 Book

  A contemporary study by Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi of the person and times of Ali ibn Abi Talib, volume four of his History of the Rightly Guided Caliphs; finished at noon on Saturday 17 Rabi' II 1424 / 7 June 2003, it treats Ali in Mecca and under the caliphs before him, his accession and qualities, his financial, judicial and provincial institutions, the battles of the Camel and Siffin and the arbitration, his stance towards the Kharijites and the Shi'a, and his martyrdom.

• Aziz Kur'an (Turkish, from Hamidullah's French translation) 2003 Book

  A Turkish rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an translated from Muhammad Hamidullah's French Le Saint Coran in the 1973 edition he revised himself, by the theologian Abdülaziz Hatip and the translator of French literature Mahmut Kanık, first published by Bayan Yayınları in Istanbul in 2003 and reprinted up to 2022; Johanna Pink observes that, though its translators declare they follow Hamidullah's method, it often abandons his choices for the commonplace Turkish term.

• White Thread Press 2002 Publisher

  White Thread Press.

• Taysir al-Karim al-Mannan fi Sirat Uthman ibn Affan 2002 Book

  A contemporary study by Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi of the person and times of Uthman ibn Affan, volume three of his History of the Rightly Guided Caliphs; finished at dawn on Wednesday 8 Rabi' II 1423 / 18 June 2002, in seven chapters: his life between Mecca and Medina; his accession, method of government and qualities; the financial and judicial institutions; the conquests and the uniting of the community on one codex; the governors; the causes of the strife; and his killing and the Companions' positions on it.

• Snow 2002 Book

  Orhan Pamuk's novel of a poet exiled to Kars, caught between Islamists, secularists and the 'headscarf girls'.

• al-Inshirah wa-Raf' al-Diq fi Sirat Abi Bakr al-Siddiq 2001 Book

  A contemporary study by Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi of the person and times of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, the first volume of his series History of the Rightly Guided Caliphs; finished on 5 Muharram 1422 / 30 March 2001 and divided into an introduction, four chapters and a summary: Abu Bakr in Mecca; the Prophet's death and the Saqifa; Usama's army and the Ridda wars; the conquests in Iraq and Syria, the nomination of Umar and Abu Bakr's death.

• Fasl al-Khitab fi Sirat Amir al-Mu'minin Umar ibn al-Khattab 2001 Book

  A contemporary study by Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi of the person and times of Umar ibn al-Khattab, volume two of his History of the Rightly Guided Caliphs; finished on 13 Ramadan 1422 / 28 November 2001, it follows Umar from birth to martyrdom in seven chapters: his life in Mecca; his Qur'anic and prophetic formation; his nomination, the rules of his government and his life in society; the financial and judicial institutions; his dealings with governors; the conquests of Iraq and the East; and the conquests of Syria, Egypt and Libya.

• al-Sira al-Nabawiyya: Ard Waqa'i' wa-Tahlil Ahdath 2000 Book

  A long contemporary biography of the Prophet by Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi (preface dated 1421/2000), covering events from the state of the world before the mission to the Prophet's death in seventeen and more chapters, each event closing with a section of 'lessons, morals and benefits', drawing on classical sources and on modern studies such as al-Raheeq al-Makhtum and Fiqh al-Sira; Dar al-Ma'rifa 7th edition 2008, 934 pages.

• Fons Vitae 1999 Publisher

  Fons Vitae.

• The Translator 1999 Book

  Leila Aboulela's novel of a devout Sudanese widow in Aberdeen — a landmark of English-language Muslim fiction.

• Gate of the Sun 1998 Book

  Elias Khoury's epic of Palestinian refugees retelling the Nakba in Shatila camp; filmed by Yousry Nasrallah.

• My Name Is Red 1998 Book

  Pamuk's historical novel of Ottoman miniaturists and a murder in the sultan's workshop — figural art at the centre of the mystery.

• The Book of Saladin 1998 Book

  Tariq Ali's Saladin novel narrated by an imagined Jewish-Muslim scribe — second of his 'Islam Quintet'.

• Turath Publishing 1997 Publisher

  A British publisher established in 1997 in South London by Yahya Batha as a continuation of the work of his father, Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ahmad Batha Bardoli, with the encouragement of Muhammad Taqi Usmani; it began with a five-year project to translate the Muwatta of Imam Muhammad and has over sixty titles of classical translations, contemporary works and manuscripts, including the 2020 edition of Usmani's Qur'an translation.

• The Qur'an: Saheeh International Translation 1997 Book

  An English rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an made in Jeddah by a team of three American converts: Emily Assami (Umm Muhammad), who led the translation, and Mary Kennedy and Amatullah Bantley, who edited it; first published in 1997 as The Qur'an: Arabic Text with Corresponding English Meanings by the Abul-Qasim Publishing House and al-Muntada al-Islami, with a corrected second edition in 2004, it is written in contemporary English with more than two thousand footnotes, and its preface states that it presents the meanings according to the creed of Ahl al-Sunna wa-l-Jama'a.

• Goodword Books 1996 Publisher

  An Indian publisher in Delhi founded in 1996 by Saniyasnain Khan as an outgrowth of the Islamic Centre his father, the scholar Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, founded in Delhi in 1976; it concentrates on illustrated children's books on Islamic values, also publishes for adults in history, religion, philosophy, da'wa and Arabic learning, and reissued T. B. Irving's American translation of the Qur'an.

• The Black Album 1995 Book

  Hanif Kureishi's novel of a British-Pakistani youth torn between 90s music culture and Islamists in London.

• al-Islam fi Khandaq 1994 Book

  A book by Mostafa Mahmoud (Kitab al-Yawm, 1994) that describes Islam as in a 'trench', besieged by terrorism on one side, struck by secularism on another and threatened by Western ambitions; it holds that religion is at heart 'the old love', commands and prohibitions being its details, and ends with a reading of Qur'anic promises of a coming victory that he calls 'a historical reading' he hopes is right.

• Granada (trilogy) 1994 Book

  Radwa Ashour's trilogy on a family in post-conquest Granada — the Moriscos and a forbidden culture; the finest Arabic fiction on al-Andalus's end.

• al-Tatabbu' li-ma fi al-Mustadrak min awham 1993 Book

  Abu 'Abd al-Rahman Muqbil ibn Hadi al-Wadi'i's notes on al-Hakim's Mustadrak, tracing the errors al-Hakim made on which al-Dhahabi was silent, titled by him al-Tatabbu' li-ma fi al-Mustadrak min awham; gathered from Fayd al-Qadir, his own and his colleagues' research and the books of al-Albani, and printed beneath the text in the Dar al-Haramayn edition (Cairo 1997) with an introduction dated 4 Rabi' I 1414 AH.

• The Majestic Qur'an: An English Rendition of Its Meanings (Ali Özek and team) 1992 Book

  An English rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by a team of Turkish scholars led by Ali Özek of Marmara University, with Nureddin Uzunoğlu, Tevfik Rüştü Topuzoğlu and Mehmet Maksutoğlu, published in Istanbul in 1992 as one of the first English translations produced in Turkey, and republished in 2000 as The Majestic Qur'an by the Nawawi and Ibn Khaldun Foundations after review by Abdal Hakim Murad, Uthman Hutchinson and Mostafa al-Badawi, with the Arabic text and some 809 footnotes.

• Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree 1992 Book

  Tariq Ali's first Islam Quintet novel — an Andalusi family after Granada's fall, as the books are burned.

• The Satanic Verses 1988 Book

  Rushdie's 1988 novel that triggered the Khomeini fatwa and the global free-expression crisis — indexed here as a historical object, neutrally.

• The Korean translation of the meanings of the Qur'an (Hamid Choi) 1988 Book

  A Korean rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by Hamid Young Kil Choi, professor at Myongji University and chairman of the Korea Muslim Federation, begun in the early 1980s on the basis of Abdullah Yusuf Ali's English and al-Sabuni's Safwat al-Tafasir; its first edition came out in 1988 with funding from a UAE company, and the King Fahd Complex printed it in 1997 in a bilingual edition with the Arabic text; it is today the main point of access to the Qur'an in Korean.

• The Holy Qurān: The Arabic Text and its Translation in the English Language (Houssein Nahaboo) 1987 Book

  An English rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an self-published in Mauritius in 1987 by Houssein Nahaboo, with a French translation issued at about the same time, after his Creole one; in modern English avoiding the King James style, with just enough notes to understand the text, influenced by Abdullah Yusuf Ali's translation, and seeking to harmonise interpretations and avoid division.

• Darussalam Publishers 1986 Publisher

  An international Islamic publishing and distribution house founded in 1986 by the Mecca-based Pakistani scholar Abdul Malik Mujahid, which grew from a single shop in Saudi Arabia to 35 countries and prints mainly in Sheikhupura, Pakistan; it has published over 1,500 books, translations and interpretations of the Qur'an in 29 languages and the six hadith collections in English in 38 volumes, and by 2020 was the second-largest publisher of translations of Islamic scripture after the King Fahd Complex.

• Korani Kerim (Mohammed Shemsuddin's Bulgarian translation) 1986 Book

  The first modern Bulgarian rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by a Muslim, written clandestinely under communism by Mohammed Shemsuddin (Mehmed Tabakov), a preacher of the Turkish-speaking minority; it circulated in 1986 as a typescript titled 'Awakener of the Muslims' to avoid naming the Qur'an, and in a revised second edition at the end of 1990 as Korani Kerim; it has sura introductions and no commentary, and Yakubovych finds that its main source was Ali Fikri Yavuz's Turkish translation.

• The Qur'an: The First American Version 1985 Book

  An English rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by the Canadian-American T. B. Irving, known as al-Hajj Ta'lim Ali, published in 1985: the first Qur'an translation in American English, and the second of the two original translations by Muslims published in the United States after Hilali–Khan; written in succinct, fluent English for second- and third-generation North American Muslims and for non-Muslims, it was funded by donors including the Aossey family of the Midamar halal food company in Cedar Rapids.

• Cities of Salt 1984 Book

  Abdul Rahman Munif's five-volume epic on oil and the transformation of Arabia — among the greatest Arabic novels, banned in several countries.

• The Great Tiding: An Annotated Translation of the Thirtieth Part of the Qur'an (Mahmoud Ayoub) 1983 Book

  An annotated English translation of Juz' Amma, with al-Fatiha, by the Lebanese-American professor Mahmoud Ayoub, commissioned and published in 1983 by the Islamic Call Society of Tripoli and self-published again in Iowa in 1997 as The Awesome News; bilingual, with a general introduction, sura introductions and notes, in modern English, it rests on the classical commentaries and sets out their range of opinions without claiming certainty.

• Quran en kreole ek tex arab (Houssein Nahaboo) 1983 Book

  A rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an into Mauritian Creole, the everyday language of Mauritius, by the dentist Houssein Nahaboo, the work of five years, published in instalments from 1983 by the Islamic Students Movement and the Islamic Women's Movement in Port Louis, with the Arabic text in two columns; written in a Creole using French spelling to make it accessible to readers and without notes, it was followed by his English and French translations.

• Le Coran: Français–Peul (Oumar Bâ) 1982 Book

  The first written translation of the meanings of the Qur'an into Fula in Latin script, by the Mauritanian-Senegalese intellectual Oumar Bâ, published in Paris by L'Harmattan with the Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique in 1982 and reprinted in 2001, with a preface by Léopold Sédar Senghor dated 1970; it sets French and Fula in two columns, without the Arabic text or notes, and its French column is in fact Blachère's translation with elements from Montet, unacknowledged.

• Islamic Texts Society 1981 Publisher

  A British publishing house in Cambridge, registered as an educational charity, founded in 1981 by a group of scholars including Aisha Gray Henry; it publishes academic and general books on Islam, among them Martin Lings's biography of the Prophet, the Ghazali Series, two volumes of which won the British Book Design and Production Award in 1991 and 1993, and Mohammad Hashim Kamali's Fundamental Rights and Liberties in Islam series.

• Ta-Ha Publishers 1980 Publisher

  An Islamic publisher in London founded in March 1980 by the husband-and-wife team Afsar Siddiqui and Dr Jamal-un-Nisa Rafai, among the first generation of Islamic publishers in Britain; it began in the back room of a North London print shop, moved to Brixton in 1984, where it stayed for 23 years, Siddiqui set up the Islamic Publishers Association in 1994, and in 2022 it published Tahir Mahmood Kiani's Easy Quran.

• The Message of the Qur'an 1980 Book

  Muhammad Asad's English rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an with his commentary in the notes, published complete in Gibraltar in 1980 by Dar al-Andalus after a partial edition of the first nine suras in Geneva in 1964; he declared his debt to Muhammad Abduh and drew on classical tafsir in the notes, many read it as rationalist, the Saudi Permanent Committee for Ifta criticised it, it has never been printed in Saudi Arabia, and it has been translated into German, Spanish, Bosnian, Turkish and Swedish, among others.

• Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum (The Sealed Nectar) 1978 Book

  A study of the Prophet's biography by Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri that took first place among 171 entries in the Muslim World League's sira competition, whose results were announced in Shaban 1398 AH and whose prizes were handed over in Mecca in 1399 AH (1979); it opens with Arabia before Islam and follows the life in chronological order to the Prophet's death, and was translated into English as The Sealed Nectar and into other languages.

• Interpretation of the Meanings of the Noble Qur'an in the English Language (Hilali–Khan) 1977 Book

  An English rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by Muhammad Taqi al-Din al-Hilali and Muhammad Muhsin Khan, completed in Medina in 1972 and first published in Chicago in 1977 by Kazi under a title presenting it as a summary of Ibn Kathir's tafsir supplemented by al-Tabari and al-Bukhari; it was reissued in Ankara in 1978 with a letter from the Islamic University of Medina, revised by Darussalam in 1994 and printed by the King Fahd Complex in 1997; published more than twenty times, it is written in contemporary English with commentary in brackets, and has been both widely used and much criticised.

• Ra'aytu Allah 1976 Book

  A book by Mostafa Mahmoud (Dar al-Ma'arif, 1976) that opens with an essay on 'seeing with the mind and inner sight', holding that God is seen through His traces and wisdom and that those brought near have a seeing of the heart, not of the eye; it then quotes and explains passages of al-Niffari's al-Mawaqif wa-l-Mukhatabat and closes with an essay on his doctrine of divine knowledge.

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