Doha Seminar Discusses Quran Translation in English

TEHRAN (IQNA) - A scientific seminar on the history of English translation of the Quran was held in Qatar University in Doha on Friday.

It was organized by the university’s College of Theology and Islamic Studies, al-Raya daily reported.
Abdullah al-Khatib, a Quranic sciences scholar and former dean of Sharjah University’s college of Islamic Sciences, addressed the seminar stressing the importance of rendering the Quran into various languages.

He said more than 80 percent of followers of Islam today are speakers of non-Arabic languages and that many of them read the translations and interpretations of the Quran in their language.
Al-Khatib also said that translation of the Quran into English is of great importance because some 1 billion people in the world are familiar with the language.
According to the Emirati scholar, over 100 translations of the Quran in English are available today.
He introduced some of these renderings in English including the ones by Marmaduke Pickthall, Abdullah Yusuf Ali and Abdel Haleem.
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