Selected Bibliography > English Quran Translations in Chronological Order
The Alcoran of Mahomet. Tr. from the Arabic by André du Ryer, tr. from the French by Alexander Ross. London: n.p., 1649. Original, L’Alcoran de Mahomet, Paris, 1647.
The Koran, Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mohammad. Tr. from the Arabic by George Sale. 1t ed. London: Wilcox, 1734.
The Qurʾān. Tr. Edward Henry Palmer. Sacred Books of the East, ed. F. Max Müller, 6 and 9. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1880.
The Qurʾân: Arabic Text and English Translation Arranged Chronologically with an Abstract. Tr. Mirza Abu'l-Fadl (Abū al-Faḍl Gulpāyigānī). 2 vols. Allahabad: G. A. Asghar & Co., 1911-1912. Typseset. Opens with a double-page illustration (b/w photograph of print?) of the Kaaba.
The Holy Qurán Containing Arabic Text with English Translation and Commentary. Tr. Muhammad Ali. Lahore: Aḥmadiyya-yi Anjuman-i Ishāʿāt-i Islām, 1917.
The Meaning of the Glorious Koran: An Explanatory Translation. Tr. Muhammad Marmaduke William Pickthall. New York: Knopf, 1930.
The Holy Quran: English Translation & Commentary. Tr. Abdullah Yusuf Ali. With the Arabic text. 30 vols. Lahore: Shaikh Muḥammad Ashraf, 1934-1937.
The Qurʾān Translated with a Critical Re-Arrangement of the Surahs. Ed. and tr. Richard Bell. 2 vols. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1937-1939.
The Koran Interpreted. Tr. A. J. Arberry. 2 vols. New York: MacMillan, 1955. (Based on Flügel's text, and not on the 1924 Cairo edition.)
The Koran. Tr. Nessim Joseph Dawood. London: Penguin, 1956. (Some later editions are issued with the Arabic text.)
The Holy Qurʾan with English Translation of the Arabic Text and Commentary According to the Version of the Ahlul-Bait. Tr. Syed V. Ahmed Ali. Karachi: Sterling Print. & Pub., 1964.
The Message of the Qurʾān. Tr. Muhammad Asad. Mecca: Muslim World League, 1964.
Al-Quran. Tr. Syed Abdul Latif. Hyderabad: Academy of Islamic Sciences, 1969.
The Holy Quran: Arabic Text and English Translation. Tr. with footnotes by M. H. Shakir. Houston, Tex.: s.n., 1974. (Published repeatedly internationally since the early 1970s.)
Explanatory English Translation of the Meaning of the Holy Qurʾān. Trs. Muḥammad Taqī al-Dīn al-Hilālī and Muḥammad Muḥsin Khān. Chicago, Ill.: Kazi Publications, 1977.
The Qurʾān: The First American Version. Tr. Thomas Ballantine Irving. Brattleboro, Vt.: Amana Books, 1984.
Al-Qurʾān: A Contemporary Translation. Tr. Ahmed Ali. Karachi: Arkash, 1984. Rev. ed. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 2001.
The Glorious Qurʾan with English Translation and Commentary. Trs. Ali Özek et al. Istanbul, Turkey: Birlik Kağıt ve Matbaacılık Tic. Ltd. Şti., 1992. (The Arabic text is “bi’l-rasm al-ʿuthmānī.”).
The Qurʾan: A Modern English Version. Tr. Majid Fakhry. Reading, U.K.: Garnet, 1996.
Approaching the Qurʾān: The Early Revelations. Introduced and tr. by Michael A. Sells. Ashland, Or.: White Cloud Press, 1999. (Includes a CD with Quran recitations.)
The Noble Qurʾan: A New Rendering of Its Meaning in English. Trs. Abdulhaqq Bewley and Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley. London: Madinah Press, 1999. Revised ed., Norwich, England: Bookwork, 2005.
The Quran. With a phrase-by-phrase English tr. by ʿAli Quli Qaraʾi. London: ICAS Press, 2004.
The Qurʾan: A New Translation. Tr. M. A. S. Abdel Haleem. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
The Sublime Quran. Tr. Laleh Bakhtiar. Chicago, Ill.: islamicworld.com, 2007.
The Holy Qur'an in Today's English. Tr. Yahiya Emerick. N.p.: CreateSpace, 2010.
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