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Anonymous Sat, Nov 14, 2015 16:45:55 No.7353931 [Reply] [Original]

What's considered the best translation of the Quran?

>>	Anonymous Sat, Nov 14, 2015 16:48:23 No.7353934 >>7353931 >not learning a book's native language so you can read it in it's original form Pleb scum

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>>	Anonymous Sat, Nov 14, 2015 16:51:35 No.7353942 I read the Penguin classics translation and I thought it was very good, though I don't know who did it and I have nothing to compare it to.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Nov 14, 2015 16:52:43 No.7353945 Pickthall, Arberry, or Qara'i.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Nov 14, 2015 17:01:34 No.7353960 File: 69 KB, 550x825, 1436379896451.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7353945 >>7353942 Thanks mates

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>>	Anonymous Sat, Nov 14, 2015 17:29:35 No.7354024 Definitely Arberry. His translation actually reads like real literature. I can't prove it but I have no doubt that he greatly improved the book, I looked at some other supposedly more accurate translations and they're so shitty and boring.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Nov 14, 2015 17:33:11 No.7354032 >>7354024 >greatly improved the book I'm >>7353945 and know Arabic. Your statement is false, but he's a good translator even though there are some inaccuracies. Qara'i reads well also and this is a newer translation.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Nov 14, 2015 17:41:11 No.7354055 >>7354024 >he greatly improved the book That's not really the point of the Quran, though, is it? Being the word of God, and all.