Qur'an Versions

I am fully aware that Muslims do not like this term, but they love to use it with a specific meaning regarding the Bible.

They point to different translations which sometimes seem to be very different and nearly contradictory to the person who does not know the original language (Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek).

The page will simply have the function to document some passages in the Qur'an which are translated very different by various (Muslim) translators, oftentimes exhibiting their own theological bias and reading their theories into the text even though the Arabic means something else.

This page is only concerned about major translation differences of the more or less identical Arabic text. Questions regarding the textual variants of the Arabic Qur'an, including the current different Arabic Versions of the Qur'an are discussed in detail in the section on The Text of the Qur'an. See particularly the introductory article on The Different Arabic Versions of the Qur'an. The issue of conflicting versions of the same story in different accounts given by the Qur'an are discussed in the section on Qur'an Contradictions.

These two newsgroup postings are an interesting introduction to the topic:
[1], and responding to it: [2] (about the translation of Hilali & Khan, regarding the issue of music and the crucifixion)

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