✍ Scribed by Seyyed Hossein Nasr; Caner K. Dagli; Maria Massi Dakake; Joseph E.B. Lumbard; Mohammed Rustom
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The Study Quran is a historic and ground-breaking work that offers:
A new English translation of the Quran that is accurate, accessible, and reliable in how it renders this sacred text
A wide-ranging verse-by-verse commentary that brings together the most respected and distinguished traditions of metaphysical, spiritual, theological, and legal interpretation of the Quran within Islam
A helpful introduction to each surah that provides an overview and background of its teachings
Essays by fifteen internationally renowned scholars on how to read and understand the Quran and its role in shaping Islamic civilization
A beautiful two-color, two-column design that presents the sacred text and commentary in the spirit of traditional Quran manuscripts
Maps, a time line of historical events, comprehensive indexes, and other features to aid reading
The Study Quran provides a service never before available to readers of English: a scholarly yet accessible resource where one can quickly and easily explore how Muslims have interpreted the Quran through the centuries to the present day. An invaluable resource for scholars and students of all backgrounds, and especially to Muslims who want to deepen their understanding of their own tradition, The Study Quran is a much-needed guide in a time when confusion about the Quran and Islam is so prevalent.
From the Introduction
The message of the Quran is at once sapiential and practical, legal and moral, concerned with everyday problems as well as the spiritual and intellectual life. The Sacred Text deals with every aspect of human concern, from the deepest intellectual questions and the most lofty spiritual issues to the mundane matters of ordinary life. It is at once therapeutic and didactic. It is a message of glad tidings (bishārah) and also of warning (nadhr). That is why it calls the prophets, including the Prophet of Islam, both harbingers or bearers of glad tidings (bashīr) and warners unto humanity (nadhīr). It is a guide for every conceivable aspect of human life, action, and thought and yet also a comfort for the soul of believers. As the central theophany of Islam, a theophany whose every aspect is considered sacred, the Quran is the source of all that is properly speaking Islamic. As the living Word of God, it is the ubiquitous companion of Muslims from the cradle to the grave and provides the spiritual and religious space within which they are born, breathe, live, and die.
I did not want the work to be confined or limited confessionally, ethnically, or geographically. It was to be universal and at the same time traditional, that is, expressing traditional Islamic views and therefore excluding modernistic or fundamentalist interpretations that have appeared in parts of the Islamic world during the past two centuries. I set out to produce a text that reflects how Muslims have understood the Quran during their long history and how those Muslims who remain traditional, which means most of them, do so today.
—Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Editorial Board
Editors’ Contributions
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Arabic Transliteration and Pronunciation
General Introduction, Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Approaching The Study Quran
Understanding the Citations in the Commentary
Commentator Key
The Quran: Translation and Commentary
1 The Opening, al-Fātiḥah
Commentary
2 The Cow, al-Baqarah
Commentary
3 The House of ʿImrān, Āl ʿImrān
Commentary
4 Women, al-Nisāʾ
Commentary
5 The Table Spread, al-Māʾidah
Commentary
6 The Cattle, al-Anʿām
Commentary
7 The Heights, al-Aʿrāf
Commentary
8 The Spoils, al-Anfāl
Commentary
9 Repentance, al-Tawbah
Commentary
10 Jonah, Yūnus
Commentary
11 Hūd, Hūd
Commentary
12 Joseph, Yūsuf
Commentary
13 The Thunder, al-Raʿd
Commentary
14 Abraham, Ibrāhīm
Commentary
15 Ḥijr, al-Ḥijr
Commentary
16 The Bee, al-Naḥl
Commentary
17 The Night Journey, al-Isrāʾ
Commentary
18 The Cave, al-Kahf
Commentary
19 Mary, Maryam
Commentary
20 Ṭā Hā, Ṭā Hā
Commentary
21 The Prophets, al-Anbiyāʾ
Commentary
22 The Pilgrimage, al-Ḥajj
Commentary
23 The Believers, al-Muʾminūn
Commentary
24 Light, al-Nūr
Commentary
25 The Criterion, al-Furqān
Commentary
26 The Poets, al-Shuʿarāʾ
Commentary
27 The Ants, al-Naml
Commentary
28 The Story, al-Qaṣaṣ
Commentary
29 The Spider, al-ʿAnkabūt
Commentary
30 The Byzantines, al-Rūm
Commentary
31 Luqmān, Luqmān
Commentary
32 Prostration, al-Sajdah
Commentary
33 The Parties, al-Aḥzāb
Commentary
34 Sheba, Sabaʾ
Commentary
35 The Originator, Fāṭir
Commentary
36 Yā Sīn, Yā Sīn
Commentary
37 Those Ranged in Ranks, al-Ṣāffāt
Commentary
38 Ṣād, Ṣād
Commentary
39 The Throngs, al-Zumar
Commentary
40 The Forgiver, Ghāfir
Commentary
41 Expounded, Fuṣṣilat
Commentary
42 Counsel, al-Shūrā
Commentary
43 Gold Ornaments, al-Zukhruf
Commentary
44 Smoke, al-Dukhān
Commentary
45 Upon Their Knees, al-Jāthiyah
Commentary
46 The Sand Dunes, al-Aḥqāf
Commentary
47 Muhammad, Muḥammad
Commentary
48 Victory, al-Fatḥ
Commentary
49 The Private Apartments, al-Ḥujurāt
Commentary
50 Qāf, Qāf
Commentary
51 The Scatterers, al-Dhāriyāt
Commentary
52 The Mount, al-Ṭūr
Commentary
53 The Star, al-Najm
Commentary
54 The Moon, al-Qamar
Commentary
55 The Compassionate, al-Raḥmān
Commentary
56 The Event, al-Wāqiʿah
Commentary
57 Iron, al-Ḥadīd
Commentary
58 She Who Disputes, al-Mujādilah
Commentary
59 The Gathering, al-Ḥashr
Commentary
60 She Who Is Examined, al-Mumtaḥanah
Commentary
61 The Ranks, al-Ṣaff
Commentary
62 The Congregational Prayer, al-Jumuʿah
Commentary
63 The Hypocrites, al-Munāfiqūn
Commentary
64 Mutual Dispossession, al-Taghābun
Commentary
65 Divorce, al-Ṭalāq
Commentary
66 Forbiddance, al-Taḥrīm
Commentary
67 Sovereignty, al-Mulk
Commentary
68 The Pen, al-Qalam
Commentary
69 The Undeniable Reality, al-Ḥāqqah
Commentary
70 The Ascending Ways, al-Maʿārij
Commentary
71 Noah, Nūḥ
Commentary
72 The Jinn, al-Jinn
Commentary
73 The Enwrapped One, al-Muzzammil
Commentary
74 The Covered One, al-Muddaththir
Commentary
75 The Resurrection, al-Qiyāmah
Commentary
76 Man, al-Insān
Commentary
77 Those Sent Forth, al-Mursalāt
Commentary
78 The Tiding, al-Nabaʾ
Commentary
79 The Wresters, al-Nāziʿāt
Commentary
80 He Frowned, ʿAbasa
Commentary
81 The Enfolding, al-Takwīr
Commentary
82 The Cleaving Asunder, al-Infiṭār
Commentary
83 Those Who Defraud, al-Muṭaffifīn
Commentary
84 The Sundering, al-Inshiqāq
Commentary
85 The Constellations, al-Burūj
Commentary
86 What Comes by Night, al-ṭāriq
Commentary
87 The Most High, al-Aʿlā
Commentary
88 The Overwhelming Event, al-Ghāshiyah
Commentary
89 The Dawn, al-Fajr
Commentary
90 The Land, al-Balad
Commentary
91 The Sun, al-Shams
Commentary
92 The Night, al-Layl
Commentary
93 The Morning Brightness, al-Ḍuḥā
Commentary
94 Expansion, al-Sharḥ
Commentary
95 The Fig, al-Tīn
Commentary
96 The Blood Clot, al-ʿAlaq
Commentary
97 Power, al-Qadr
Commentary
98 The Clear Proof, al-Bayyinah
Commentary
99 The Earthquake, al-Zalzalah
Commentary
100 The Chargers, al-ʿĀdiyāt
Commentary
101 The Calamity, al-Qāriʿah
Commentary
102 Vying for Increase, al-Takāthur
Commentary
103 The Declining Day, al-ʿAṣr
Commentary
104 The Slanderer, al-Humazah
Commentary
105 The Elephant, al-Fīl
Commentary
106 Quraysh, Quraysh
Commentary
107 Small Kindnesses, al-Māʿūn
Commentary
108 Abundant Good, al-Kawthar
Commentary
109 The Disbelievers, al-Kāfirūn
Commentary
110 Help, al-Naṣr
Commentary
111 The Palm Fiber, al-Masad
Commentary
112 Sincerity, al-Ikhlāṣ
Commentary
113 The Daybreak, al-Falaq
Commentary
114 Mankind, al-Nās
Commentary
ESSAYS
How to Read the Quran Ingrid Mattson
The Quran in Translation Joseph Lumbard
The Islamic View of the Quran Muhammad Mustafa al-Azami
Quranic Arabic: Its Characteristics and Impact on Arabic Language and Literature and the Languages and Literatures of Other Islamic Peoples Muhammad Abdel Haleem
Quranic Commentaries Walid Saleh
Traditions of Esoteric and Sapiential Quranic Commentary Toby Mayer
Scientific Commentary on the Quran Muzaffar Iqbal
The Quran as Source of Islamic Law Aḥmad Muḥammad al-ṭayyib
The Quran and Schools of Islamic Theology and Philosophy Muṣṭafā Muḥaqqiq Dāmād
The Quran and Sufism William C. Chittick
The Quran and Islamic Art Jean-Louis Michon
The Quranic View of Sacred History and Other Religions Joseph Lumbard
Quranic Ethics, Human Rights, and Society Maria Massi Dakake
Conquest and Conversion, War and Peace in the Quran Caner K. Dagli
Death, Dying, and the Afterlife in the Quran Hamza Yusuf
Essay Author Biographies
Appendix A Ḥadīth Citations
Appendix B Time Line of Major Events Related to the Quran
Appendix C Biographies of Commentators
Maps
Index
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