About the Book: Gods Word, Mans Interpretations
Gods Word, Mans Interpretations: A Critical Study of the 21st Century English
Translations of the Quran evaluates the relative strengths and weaknesses of 30
English translations of the Quran which have come out recently, between 2000 and
2017. This assessment of the Quranic scholarship adumbrates several issues:
translatability of the Word of God, translators ideological presuppositions and
intrusions, the need and relevance of the English translation and the growing
trends and changes in the field to which both Muslim and non-Muslim scholars
alike have vigorously contributed. It also points out how the field of English
translation of the Quran now