The Meaning of the Glorious Koran - Everyman's Library

Marmaduke Pickthall

Hardback (11 Jan 1993)

Save $3.27

RRP $33.62
$30.35

In Stock

Add to basket

Includes delivery to the United States

3 copies available online - Usually dispatched within two working days

Other formats & editions

New: Hardback (17 Dec 1992) ~~RRP $24.21~~ $23.82; Paperback (15 Oct 2011) $63.03; Hardback (26 Apr 2011) $77.56

Publisher's Synopsis

While in the service of India's Nizam of Hyderabad, Marmaduke Pickthall converted to Islam and, with the help of Muslim theologians and linguists, produced this clear and lovingly precise English interpretation of the Holy Koran. His work is honored by believer and non-believer alike for its unique combination of piety, scholarly rigor in its translation and explanatory notes, and deep feeling for the poetic beauty and moral grandeur of its Arabic original.

With an Introduction by William Montgomery Watt

About the Publisher

Everyman's Library

Everyman's Library was founded on 15th February 1906 with the publication by Joseph Dent (1849-1926) of fifty titles. Dent, a master bookbinder turned publisher, was a classic Victorian autodidact. The tenth child of a Darlington house-painter, he had left school at thirteen, and arrived in London with a half crown in his pocket. He promised to publish new and beautiful editions of the world's classics at one shilling a volume, 'to appeal to every kind of reader: the worker, the student, the cultured man, the child, the man and the woman' so that 'for a few shillings the reader may have a whole bookshelf of the immortals for five pounds (which will procure him a hundred volumes) a man may be intellectually rich for life'. 'Infinite riches in a little room', as he also put it.

Book information

ISBN:	9780679417361
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint:	Everyman's Library
Pub date:	11 Jan 1993
DEWEY:	297.122521
DEWEY edition:	20
Language:	English
Number of pages:	693
Weight:	772g
Height:	138mm
Width:	213mm
Spine width:	42mm