Islamic Studies: a Bibliography (books—in English)

III - The Qur’an (Translations, Commentaries, Studies): Abu-Hamdiyyah, Mohammad.The Qur’an: An Introduction. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Ali, Abdullah Yusuf.The Holy Qur’an: Text, Translation and Commentary. Washington, DC: Amanah, 1989.

Ali, Ahmed.Al-Qur’an: A Contemporary Translation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988.

Asad, Muhammad.The Message of the Qur’an. Gibraltar: Dar al-Andalus, 1980.

Ayoub, Mahmoud.The Qur’an and Its Interpreters, Vols. 1-2. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1984.

Baljon, Jon M.S.Modern Muslim Koran Interpretation (1880-1960). Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1961.

Barlas, Asma.“Believing Women” in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2002.

Bell, Richard.Introduction to the Qur’an. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1963.

Bell, Richard.The Qur’an Translated, 2 Vols. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1960.

Burton, John.The Collection of the Quran. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1977.

Cook, Michael.The Koran: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Cragg, Kenneth.The Event of the Quran: Islam in its Scripture. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1971.

Cragg, Kenneth.The Mind of the Quran: Chapters in Reflection. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1973.

Dawood, N.J.The Koran . Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1956.

English Translation of the Meaning of Al-Qur’an: The Guidance for Mankind (Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik, trans.). Houston, TX: The Institute of Islamic Knowledge, 1997.

Esack, Farid.Qur’ān, Liberation and Pluralism. Oxford, England: Oneworld, 1997.

Esack, Farid.The Qur’an: A Short Introduction. Oxford, England: Oneworld, 2002.

Fakhry, Majid, trans.An Interpretation of the Qur’an. New York: New York University Press, 2002.

Gätje, Helmut (Alford T. Welch, trans. and ed.).The Quran and Its Exegesis. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1976.

Hawting, G.R. et al., eds.Approaches to the Quran. London: Routledge, 1993.

The Holy Qur’an: Arabic Text with English Translation and Short Commentary (Maulavi Sher Ali, trans. and Malik Ghulam Farid, ed.). Tilford, Surrey, England: Islam International Publ., 1994.

Izutsu, Toshihiko.Ethico-Religious Concepts in the Quran. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2002.

Izutsu, Toshihiko.God and Man in the Koran. Salem, NH: Ayer Co. Publ., 1980.

Jansen, J.J.G.The Interpretation of the Koran in Modern Egypt . Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1974.

Kassis, Hanna E.A Concordance of the Qur’an. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press,1998.

Khalifa, Rashad.Quran, Hadith, and Islam. Fremont, CA: Universal Unity, 2000.

al-Khu’i, ‛Abu’l Qasim al-Musawu.The Prolegomena to the Qur’an. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1998.

The Koran. J.M. Rodwell, trans. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1909 (reprint ed., 1974).

The Koran Interpreted. Arthur J. Arberry, trans. New York: Macmillan, 1955.

Madigan, Daniel A.The Qur’an’s Self-Image: Writing and Authority in Islamic Scripture. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.

McAuliffe, Jane Dammen, ed.The Encyclopedia of the Qur’an, Vol. 1. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2001.

Mir, Mustansir.Dictionary of Qur’anic Terms and Concepts. New York: Garland, 1987.

Nelson, Kristina.The Art of Reciting the Qur’ān. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1985.

The Qur’an (Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, trans., with Arabic text). Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 1997.

The Qur’an Translated, With a Critical Rearrangement of the Surahs. Richard Bell, trans. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1939.

Rahman, Fazlur.Major Themes of the Qur’an. Minneapolis, MN: Bibliotheca Islamica, 1980.

Rippin, Andrew.The Qur’an and Its Interpretive Tradition. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2002.

Rippin, Andrew, ed.Approaches to the History of the Interpretation of the Qur’an. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1988.

Rippin, Andrew, ed.The Qur’an: Formative Interpretation. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate/Variorum, 2000.

Rippin, Andrew, ed.The Qur’an: Style and Contents . Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2001.

Robinson, Neal.Discovering the Qur’an: A Contemporary Approach to a Veiled Text. London: SCM Press, 1996.

Sells, Michael.Approaching the Qur’an: The Early Revelations. Ashland, OR: White Cloud Press, 1999.

Stowasser, Barbara Freyer.Women in the Qur’an: Traditions and Interpretations. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Turner, Colin, trans. (Mohammad Baqir Behbudi, textual exegesis).The Quran: A New Interpretation. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1998.

Wadud-Muhsin, Amina. Qur’an and Woman: Reading the Sacred Text from a Woman’s Perspective. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999 reprint ed.

Wansbrough, John.Qur’anic Studies: Sources and Methods of Scriptural Interpretation. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1977.

Wansbrough, John and Andrew Rippin.Quranic Studies: Sources and Methods of Scriptural Interpretaion. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2004.

Warraq, Ibn, ed.The Origins of the Koran: Classic Essays on Islam’s Holy Book. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1998.

Warraq, Ibn, ed.What the Koran Really Says: Language, Text, and Commentary . Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2002.

Watt, William Montgomery.Companion to the Qur’an. Oxford, UK: Oneworld, 1994.

Watt, William Montgomery and Richard Bell.Introduction to the Qur’an. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1970.

Wild, S., ed.The Qur’an as Text: Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1997.