List of translations of the Quran

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This is a sub-article to Translation of the Qur'an.

By first printing date

600s

Salman the Persian translated Fatiha from Arabic to Persian.^[1]

1000s

Persian translation which is called "Qur'an Quds" which was translated by an unknown translator.[1]

1100s

1143(?), Latin, Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete, — , by a group led by Robert of Ketton, under direction of Peter the Venerable

1200s

1193-1216 Latin, an improved Latin translation from Arabic by Marco de Toledo (fl. 1193-1216)

1500s

1543 reprint Latin text of Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete (1143), edited by Theodor Bibliander [2]
1547 Italian, at "Venise" [Venezia (Venice){?}]

1600s

1616 German, Alcoranus Mahometicus from Italian by S. Schweigger, Nuremberg
1647 French, L'Alcoran de Mahomet from Arabic by Andre du Ryer, the third from the original Arabic directly into a European language, the first two being to Latin (1100s, 1200s).
1649 English, L'Alcoran de Mahomet from the French by Alexander Ross
1696 Dutch, Mahomets Alkoran translated from the French by Hendrik Jan Glasemaker
1698 Latin, a third Latin translation from Arabic, extensively annotated, sometimes from a Christian perspective, preceded by a biography of the Prophet and a discussion of Islamic doctrines, by Father Louis Maracci, Padua [3]

1700s

1734-??-??, English, KORAN, Commonly called The Alcoran of Mohammed, Translated into English immediately from the Original Arabic; with Explanatory Notes and Commentaries. To which is prefixed a Preliminary Discourse, by George Sale; evidently making use of the Latin of Maracci (Padua 1698). One of the copies owned by American Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, on which Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, was sworn.

1800s

1841-??-??, Leipzig 1841 text of the Quran edited by Gustav Fluegel. [4]
1858 Polish Quran (al Quran) by Jan Murza Tarak Buczacki
1861-??-??, English, The Quran by John Medows Rodwell [5]
1880-??-??, English, ? by Edward Henry Palmer
1886, Bengali, ? by Girish Chandra Sen

1900s

1910. Urdu, Kanzul Iman by Ahmad Raza Khan, founder of the Barelwi movement.
1917-??-??, English, The Holy Qur'an — , by Maulana Muhammad Ali, ISBN 0-913321-11-7.[6]
1930-??-??, English, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran — , by Marmaduke Pickthall, ISBN 1-879402-51-3 [7] [8]
1934-??-??, English, The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary — , by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, ISBN 0-915957-76-0.
1936, Bosnian, Qur´an by Hafiz Muhamed Pandža and Džemaludin Čaušević
1955-??-??, English, The Koran Interpreted: A Translation — , by Arthur John Arberry, ISBN 0-684-82507-4.
1985-??-??, English, Noble Qur'an — , by Muhammad Muhsin Khan.
1986 Polish Koran by Józef Bielawski
1987 Hungarian Korán by Róbert Simon
1989-05-??, English, The Qur'an — , by M. H. Shakir ISBN 0-940368-16-1.
1998-??-??,Swedish language, Koranens budskap — , by Mohammed Knut Bernström
1936, Hebrew, "AlQur'an", by Josef Rivlin.
1971, Hebrew, "HaQur'an", by Aharon Ben Shemesh.
1981, English, Al Qur'aan, by As Sayyid Imam Isa Al Haadi Al Mahdi, founder of the Ansaaru Allah Community of the West
1996, English, El's Holy Qur'aan, by Malachi Z. York for the Holy Tabernacle Ministries

2000s

2001, English "The Holy Quran" By (Late)Prof.Dr.S.M.Afzal-ur-Rahman.
2005, English, "The Noble Qur'an: A New Rendering of its Meaning in English", By AbdalHaqq and Aisha Bewley.
2006, English, "Quran: a Reformist Translation", By Edip Yuksel, Layth al-Shaiban, Martha Schulte/Nafeh BrainbowPress.
2003, English, "The Message: God's Revelation to Humanity", By ProgressiveMuslims.Org.
2003, English, The Qur'an As It Explains Itself, By Shabbir Ahmed.
2004 English, "The Qur'an" (Oxford World Classics) by M.A.S Abdel Haleem
2005, Hebrew, "HaQur'an", by Uri Rubin.
2007, Estonian, "Koraan", By Haljand Udam

By writer and language

Afrikaans

Die Heilige Qur'ān, by Imam Muhammad A Baker. First edition 1961. The style of Afrikaans dates from the 1940s-1960s. The author deliberately used spelling which mimicks Arabic pronunciation even if those words have been taken up into mainstream Afrikaans with a different spelling or pronunciation. It is a literal translation, but the text reads like normal, idiomatic Afrikaans, with a few Muslim idiosyncrasies here and there. The word "surah" was translated "hoofstuk" (meaning "chapter"). The book does not contain the Arabic text.
A newer Afrikaans translation of the Qur'ān was made using the principles of dynamic equivalence, but that version is not popular among Afrikaans Muslims.

Chinese

Yusuf Ma Dexin, 宝命真经直解 (True Revealed Scripture)^[2]
Muhammad Ma Jian

Danish

Ellen Wulff (translated in 2006)
Abdul Salam Madsen

Dutch

De Arabische Alkoran: door de Zarazijnsche en de Turcksche prophete Mahometh, in drie onderscheyden deelen begrepen: van der Turcken religie, ghelove, aelmoessen, vasten, ghebeden, bedevaert na Mecha, met t'samen sijn gods-diensten, ende ceremonien, wetten ende rechten / uyt de Arabische spraecke nu nieuwelijcks in Hooghduytsch ghetranslateert met t'samen een aenhanghende voorreden, door Salomon Swigger ... ende wederom uyt het Hooghduytsch in Nederlantsche spraecke ghestelt. 1641, Anonyme, Hambourg.
Jan Hendrik Glasemaker; 1696
Tollens, L. J. A.;1859
De Heilige Qor'aan, met Nederlandse vertaling; uitgave onder auspiciën van de Ahmadiyya Beweging; Rabwah, Pakistan, 1953 (bilingual edition)
J.H. Kramers; 1956
de koran; een weergave van de betekenis van de Arabische tekst in het Nederlands door Fred Leemhuis; Het Wereldvenster, Houten, 1989. (bilingual edition)

English

Dr. Edip Yuksel, Layth al-Shaiban, Dr. Martha Schulte-Nafeh, "Quran: a Reformist Translation" (Non-sexist, non-sectarian translation) BrainbowPress (ISBN 0-979-67150-7)
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar, The Sublime Quran (The first English translation of the Qur'an by an American woman ^{[citation needed]})
Ahmed Ali, Al-Qur'an, a Contemporary Translation
Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Meaning of the Holy Qur'an (ISBN 0-915957-76-0)
Arthur John Arberry, The Koran Interpreted: A Translation (ISBN 0-684-82507-4)
N. J. Dawood
Dr. Rashad Khalifa, Quran: The Final Testament (ISBN 1-881893-05-7)
E.H. Palmer, The Qur'an: The Sacred Books of the East Part Nine (ISBN 1-4179-3010-1)
John Meadows Rodwell The Koran (ISBN 0-8041-1125-1)
Marmaduke Pickthall, The Glorious Qu'ran (ISBN 1-879402-51-3)
M. H. Shakir, The Qur'an (ISBN 0-940368-16-1)
M.A.S Abdel Haleem, The Qur'an (Oxford World Classics) (ISBN 0-19-283193-3)
Towards Understanding the Qur'an translated by Zafar Ishaq Ansari from Urdu Tafhim al Qur'an

Maulana Muhammad Ali, The Holy Qur'an: Text (ISBN 0-913321-11-7)
Muhammad Muhsin Khan, Noble Qur'an
Muhammad Asad, The Message of The Qur'an (ISBN 1-904510-00-0)
Thomas Cleary, The Qur'an: A New Translation (ISBN 1-929694-44-X) and The Essential Koran: The Heart of Islam (ISBN 0-06-250198-4)
Abdul Majid Daryabadi ("The Holy Qur'an, English Translation " 1941 57, Lahore)
Dr. Zohurul Hoque, Translation and Commentary on The Holy Quran (ISBN 0-9678304-0-0)
Dr. T. B. Irving, Noble Qur'an: Arabic Text & English Translation (ISBN 0-915597-51-9)
Dr. Muhsin Khan and Dr. M. Taqi-ud-Din Al-Hilali, The Noble Quran (ISBN 1-59144-000-9)
George Sale, KORAN, Commonly called The Alcoran of Mohammed, Translated into English immediately from the Original Arabic; with Explanatory Notes, taken from the most approved Commentators. To which is prefixed a Preliminary Discourse
Muhammad Taqiuddin Sarwar, The Holy Qur'an (ISBN 0-941724-00-X)
Ali Ünal, The Qur'an with Annotated Interpretation in Modern English (ISBN 978-1-59784-000-1)

Esperanto

Italo Chiussi, La Nobla Korano
Muztar Abbasi, La traduko de la Sankta Kuraano

Estonian

Haljand Udam, Koraan (ISBN 9789985213148)

French

L'Alcoran de Mahomet / translaté d'arabe françois par le Sieur Du Ryer, Sieur de la Garde Malezair., 1647, 1649, 1672, 1683, 1719, 1734, 1770, 1775, André Du Ryer, Paris.
Le Coran / traduit de l'arabe, accompagné de notes et précédé d'un abrégé de la vie de Mahomet, tiré des écrivains orientaux les plus estimés, M. Savary, 1787, 1821, 1826, Paris.
Le Koran: traduction nouvelle faite sur le texte arabe / par M. Kasimirski interprète de la legation Française en Perse; revue et précédée d'une introduction par G. Pauthier., 1840, 1841, 1844 Biberstein-Kasimirski, Paris, 1970 Garnier Flamarion. Nouvelle édition. Le Coran, traduction de Kasimirski, suivie du Petit dictionnaire de l'islam par Thomas Decker, Maxi-livres, 2002.
Le Coran, translated by Régis Blachère, Maisonneuve et Larose, 1950 reedited en 2005, (ISBN 2-7068-1861-1)
Le Coran, translated by Muhammad Hamidullah and Michel Leturmy, 1959, first French translation from the Arab text (ISBN 2841610853).
Le Coran, translation and notes by Denise Masson, Gallimard, 1967, (ISBN 207010009X)
Le Coran, l'appel, translation by André Chouraqui, Robert Laffont, 1990, (ISBN 2221069641)
Le Coran, trial at translation by Jacques Berque, Albin Michel, 1995, (ISBN 2-226-07739-1)
Le Coran, translation by Hamza Boubakeur, Maisonneuve et Larose, 1995, 2 volumes (ISBN 270681134X)
Le Coran, translation by Malek Chebel, Payot, 2001, 2 volumes (ISBN 222889480X)

German

Alcoranus Mahometicus: das ist, der Türcken Alcoran, Religion und Aberglauben: auss welchem zu vernemen wann unnd woher ihr falscher Prophet Machomet seinen Ursprung oder Anfang genommen, mit was Gelegenheit derselb diss sein Fabelwerck, lächerliche und närrische Lehr gedichtet und erfunden ... / erstlich auss der arabischen in die italianische, jetzt aber inn die teutsche Sprach gebracht durch, 1616, S. Schweigger, Nuremberg.
Der Koran, Übersetzung von Rudi Paret, Kohlhammerverlag, Stuttgart Berlin Köln, 1979
Der Koran, Kommentar und Konkordanz vor Rudi Paret,Kohlhammerverlag, Stuttgart Berlin Köln, 1971

Hebrew

Der Koran / aus dem Arabischen ins Hebräische übersetzt und erläutert von Herrmann Reckendorf., 1857 H. Reckendorf, Leipzig.
Josef Rivlin.
Aharon Ben Shemesh.
Uri Rubin

Hungarian

Korán translated by Róbert Simon. Budapest: Helikon, 1987.

Italian

L'Alcorano di Macometto: nel qual si contiene la dottrina, la vita, i costumi, et le leggi sue / tradotto nuovamente dall' Arabo in lingua Italiana., 1547, Venise.
Bausani, Alessandro, Firenze 1955, p.lxxix+779\ Firenze 1978, p. lxxix+771.
Bonelli, Luigi, new ed. Milano 1929, p. 31+524\ reprint 2nd rev. ed., Milano: Ulrico Hoepli 1972, p. 614. (4)
Branchi, Eugenio Camillo, Roma 1913, p. 437.
Calza, Caval. Vincenio, 8astia 1847, p. xiv+330.
Fracassi, Aquilio, Milano 1914" p.lxx+[6]+340+359.
Moreno, Martino Mario, Torino 1967, p. viii+605\ Torino 1969, p. viii+605\ 2nd ed. [n.p.] 1971, p. vii+608.
Violante, Alferedo, Rome: Casa Ed. Latina 1912.
Il Corano, Milano 1882/ Milano 1913.^[3]

Kannada

There are at least three complete translations of Qur'an:

Divya Qur'an by a board of translators
Pavitra Qur'an by S. Abdul Ghaffar (For online version click here)
Qur'an Vyakhyana by S. Abdul Ghaffar & A.S. Puthige

Latin

First translation (1141-1143) under the auspices of Peter the Venerable, made by a group led by Robert of Ketton (or Roberto Ketenese, or Robertus Retenensis), known as the Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete; much later much criticized.
Second translation (circa 1193-1216) by Mark of Toledo, regarded as a noticeable improvement.
First printing of the Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete made in Bâle (1543), during the Protestant Reformation. Machumetis Saracenorum Principis, eiusque successorum vitae, ac doctrina, ipseqve Alcoran: quo uelut authentico legum diuinarum codice Agareni & Turcae, alijq[ue] Christo aduersantes populi regu[n]tur, quae ante annos CCCC ... D. Petrus Abbas Cluniacensis per uiros eruditos ... ex Arabica lingua in Latinam transferri curauit: his adiunctae sunt confutationes multorum, & quidem probatissimorum authorum, Arabum, Graecorum, & Latinorum, unà cum ... Philippi Melanchthonis praemonitione ... : adiunctae sunt etiam, Turcaru[m] ... res gestae maximè memorabiles, à DCCCC annis ad nostra usuq[ue] tempora: haec omnia in unum uolumen redacta sunt, 1543, I. Oporinus, Basileae.
Third translation from Arabic 1691-1698, by Ludovico Marracci (Padua).^[4]

Malayalam

Muhammad Amani Maulavi Translation and Commantry
[Cheriyamundam Abdul Hameed Madani & Kunhi Mohammed Parappoor] Translation

Mande

Souleymane Kante

Moulana Abul A'la Moudoodhi

There are more than 60 complete translations of Qur'an in Persian and too many partial translations. In the past some Tafsirs which had included Qur'an were translated like translation of Tafsir Tabari in 10 CE.^[5]