Quran Translated into Russian 13 Times
Speaking to IQNA, Hojat-ol-Islam Mohammad Naghdi said some of the translators have rendered the entire Quran into Russian while others have translated parts of the Holy Book.
He referred to the Quran translation by Nikolayev as one of the earliest done in Russian.
It was completed in 1864 and published in Moscow in 622 pages, the scholar noted.
There have been other renderings such as those by G. S. Sablukov (1993), V. M. Porokhova (2003, Damascus), N. O. Othmanov (1995 and reprinted in 1999, Moscow), D. N. Boguslavsky (2000, Istanbul), and I. Yu. Krachkovsky (2002, Minsk), he went on to say.
Earlier this month, an Iranian expert of Russian cultural affairs described the Quran translation by Nuri Muhammad Othmanov as the best rendering of the Holy Book into the Russian language.
Parviz Qassemi said Othmanov made extensive efforts to use the most precise equivalents for Quranic terms in his translation, which was released in 1995.
Othmanov took utmost care to accurately convey the meaning to the readers, who are unfamiliar with the Arabic language, Qassemi said.
