GloQur – The Global Qur'an

All three @GloQur PhD students have submitted their thesis shortly after the end of the project. 🥳🥳🥳 Congratulations, Elvira Kulieva, Yulia Riswan and Kamran Ahmad Khan! 😍

referenceworks.brill.com/display/entr... 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Years in the making and finally out: the new collaborative entry on Qur'an translations in the Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān Online, edited by yours truly, nearly 60,000 words long!

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Our publications keep coming! Check this out, it's open access. But feel free to order a hard copy for your library!

GloQur @gloqur.bsky.social ended on April 30, 2025. The team says goodbye. It has been an awesome journey! Feel free to revisit our results on gloqur.de! 😊

I've been working on recent Qur'an translations. A common feature here is the desire to defend Islam against attacks. What struck me today is that, contrary to what many (including Muslim translators) would intuitively assume, this did not start on September 11, 2001. It started on January 16, 1991.

This German Qur'an translation, allegedly by one Muhammad Abdallah (what a totally not AI-generated super-un-generic Muslim name!), is 100% identical to the result you get if you enter Marmaduke Pickthall's Qur'an translation into DeepL. Isn't this a weird coincidence? 😜

Qur’an translation of the week #10: Interlinear translations from Masjid al-Huda - GloQur- The Global Qur'an Interlinear Qur’an translation is often considered a thing of the past – but in many contexts, it is alive and kicking! This points to fundamental differences

Interlinear Qur'an translation, a very old format, is alive and kicking! When I was in Indonesia in 2018, someone gave me a copy of their mosque's self-published version in the hopes of finding a publisher:

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The Qur’ān and the Turkic World

Taking place Wednesday, February 19, online!
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Qur’an translation of the week #09: The Majestic Qur’an by Dr. Musharraf Hussein OBE - GloQur- The Global Qur'an “The Majestic Qur’an” (Nottingham: Invitation Publishing, 2018) is among the recent translations placing an emphasis on “plain English”. Its translator, Dr

A graduate of Egypt's al-Azhar publishes an English Qur'an translation in the UK, which then becomes the object of a tug-of-war between various Sunni movements over doctrinal minutiae. There is no way anyone can "just translate" the Qur'an. #qurantranslationoftheweek

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Qur’an translation of the week #08: Kur’oni Karim. Uzbekcha izoxli tarjima - GloQur- The Global Qur'an It is not unusual that a Qur’an translation becomes a source for translations into further languages, but what about a single translator who produces his work

A single guy translated the Qur'an into five different languages! Okay, so they are all Turkic languages, but it's still quite a feat: gloqur.de/quran-transl...

Qur’an translation of the week #07: 'Le Saint Coran‘ and its convoluted publication history - GloQur- The Global Qur'an This book, which I purchased in a bookstore in Tunis, was published in Homs, Syria, in 2011 and claims to contain a French Qur’an translation produced by the

The story of a single book can take us from Tunisia to Syria, Saudi Arabia, Mauretania, India, and France. The interplay between translators, editors, and publishers makes the translation of the Qu'an a truly global endeavor!
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Qur’an translation of the week #06: “The Message of the Qur’an” by Muhammad Asad - GloQur- The Global Qur'an This week we look at the highly original and influential work by the rationally-inclined Muhammad Asad: “The Message of the Qur’an”.

Did you know that the first edition of the famous convert's Muhammad Asad (born Leopold Weiss) "Message of the Qur'an" was aborted by the Muslim World League after circles in Saudi Arabia started feeling uncomfortable with his interpretations?

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Qur’an translation of the week #05: The Bosnian translation by Besim Korkut - GloQur- The Global Qur'an Among the numerous translations of the Qur’an into Balkan languages, the Bosnian translation by Besim Korkut (1904–1977) may still be the most popular. After

Did you know that the Bosnian Qur'an translation by Besim Korkut, first published in 1977, became so popular that it was even translated into further languages? #qurantranslationoftheweek

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YouTube video by GloQur – The Global Qur'an Looking Ahead in Qur'an Translation Studies (The Global Qur'an Project)

The roundtable we had at the opening of the @gloqur.bsky.social exhibition at Uniseum Freiburg with Helen Blatherwick, Sohaib Saeed and Gulnaz Sibgatullina is online now. If you're interested in the field of Qur'an translation studies, take a look!

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Veranstaltungsplakat

Interessierte willkommen: Vom 15. bis 17. Januar findet der internationale Workshop "Empire in Translation: Perso-Arabic Knowledge and the Making of Early Modern Ottoman Civilisation" der Emmy Noether-Nachwuchsgruppe "TRANSLAPT" an der @uni-muenster.de statt. Website zur Tagung: uni.ms/tzpxq

Der Kulturteil der Badischen Zeitung hat mich über Abdelkarim (nicht im Bild) gesetzt und jetzt fühle ich mich aber mal echt geehrt. 😂

Great turnout and atmosphere at the opening of our GloQur - The Global Qur'an exhibition. The guests enjoyed the opportunity to ask questions and have drinks and Syrian snacks with us. The exhibition will be open until April 5 and we offer guided tours in 10 languages!
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Qur’an translation of the week #04: The Lies! edition of Muhammad Rassoul’s Qur’an translation - GloQur- The Global Qur'an This book, entitled “The Approximate Meaning of Al Qur’ān Al Karīm in German Language” („Die ungefähre Bedeutung des Al Qur’ān Al Karīm in deutscher

Salafis started handing out Qur'an translations in German 🇩🇪 city centres in 2011. The group was banned in 2016 due to alleged connections to ISIS and since then, the German government has been at a loss what to do with the seized books. 🤯

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Qur’an translation of the week #03: Bridges’ Translation of the Ten Qira’at of the Noble Qur’an - GloQur- The Global Qur'an This week we peek inside probably the most recent English translation to be published: Bridges’ Translation of the Ten Qira’at of the Noble Qur’an. It was

Did you know that there is an English Qur'an translation that tries to accommodate ten different reading traditions, rather than – as most translations do – just the most widespread (Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim)? gloqur.de/quran-transl...

My current project is collecting a database of vocalised Quranic manuscripts, to study which reading traditions they reflect. A large number (likely the majority) do not represent any known reading traditions from the literary tradition. A thread on one such a reading type. 🧵

The @GloQur team hard at work to bring this exhibition to you:
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Qur’an translation of the week #02: Koran perevod smyslov - GloQur- The Global Qur'an “Koran: perevod smyslov” (1993) was the first Russian translation by a Muslim woman. By the late 1980’s, the Muslim community in the Soviet bloc experienced

Did you know that one of the first Muslim women to translate the Qur'an was a Russian convert, Valerija Iman Porokhova? "Koran: Perevod Smyslov" was published in 1993 and despite the daring choice of a rhyming, poetic style, it was an instant hit among post-Soviet Muslims.
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Qur’an translation of the week - GloQur- The Global Qur'an GloQur - The Global Qur’an’s weekly blog posts on global Qurʾan translations, discussing language, style, publisher, target groups, translators, layout, gender, the social context in the country of or...

Since we only went to Bluesky long after our project started, we will do brief, one-post recaps of our "Qur'an translation of the week" feature, which has seen no less than 208 installments as of today. If you want to check out all of them, go to gloqur.de/category/glo... Or just follow us here. 😊

Qur’an translation of the week #01: Al-Qur’an dan terjemahnya - GloQur- The Global Qur'an "Al-Quräan dan terdjemahnja", a hugely successful project of the newly-independent Republic of Indonesia, was the first Qur’an translation ever to be

Did you know that the most longstanding and widely distributed Qur'an translation published by a nation state government comes from Indonesia? And that it might be the most successful translation ever produced by a committee as well? #qurantranslationoftheweek
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Retranslating the Bible and the Qur’an | Leuven University Press Significant contribution to the retranslation studies of religious texts. Despite the lively scholarly discourse on retranslation and its manifest value for uncovering dynamics of cultural change, int...

Check out this open access (!) volume with @gloqur.bsky.social chapters by E. Kulieva on the legacy of Ignatiĭ Krachkovskiĭ in Russian Salafi Qur’an Translations and J. Pink on the colonial and postcolonial afterlives of Muhammad Ali’s Qur’an translation")! 🥰
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The website for our exhibition is up! 😍
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Sneak preview. 😊

This is a feature we have been doing on a weekly basis since 2020, biweekly since last year. Let's see if anyone on Bluesky is interested. 😊 You may find all previous 204 instalments on our website: gloqur.de

Although other Ahmadis have produced their own English translations, Sher Ali’s remains the standard within the Ahmadiyya community, with the most recent edition published in 2021. #qurantranslationoftheweek ~ KK ~