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Bruce B. Lawrence, “The Koran in English: A Biography” (Princeton UP, 2017)

Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
Episode • Oct 16, 2017 • 59m
As the basis for a major world religion, the Qur’an is one of the most influential books of all time. But when it first appeared, the Qur’an was in Arabic. Most Muslims today are not native-Arabic speakers. Bruce B. Lawrence deals with this issue of translation and more by specifically...

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