The Koran in English: A Biography novel Abu Shuja al-Asfahani's legal primer

Abu Shuja al-Asfahani's legal primer Matn al-Ghayat wa-l-Taqrib (The Ultimate Conspectus) has been a standard text for introducing students of the Shafii school of Islamic law to the full range of basic legal issues

the Phaedo ranks among the supreme literary achievements of antiquity

Key to Salvation is considered to be one of his most important works because it contains the principles of actual Sufi mystical practices

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The Koran in English: A Biography novel Abu Shuja al-Asfahani's legal primerThe untold story of how the Arabic Qur'an became the English Koran. For millions of Muslims, the Qur'an is sacred only in Arabic, the original Arabic in which it was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century. To many Arab and non Arab believers alike, the book literally defies translation, yet English translations are growing in both number and importance. Bruce Lawrence tells the remarkable story of the centuries long quest to translate