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# The Study Quran: A Study of the Quran with Classical Commentary

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An accessible and accurate translation of the Quran that offers a rigorous analysis of its theological, metaphysical, historical, and geographical teachings and backgrounds, and includes extensive study notes, special introductions by experts in the field, and is edited by a top modern Islamic scholar, respected in both the West and the Islamic world. Drawn from a wide range of traditional Islamic commentaries, including Sunni and Shia sources, and from legal, theological, and mystical texts, The Study Quran conveys the enduring spiritual power of the Quran and offers a thorough scholarly understanding of this holy text. Beautifully packaged with a rich, attractive two-color layout, this magnificent volume includes essays by 15 contributors, maps, useful notes and annotations in an easy-to-read two-column format, a timeline of historical events, and helpful indices. With The Study Quran , both scholars and lay readers can explore the deeper spiritual meaning of the Quran, examine the grammar of difficult sections, and explore legal and ritual teachings, ethics, theology, sacred history, and the importance of various passages in Muslim life. With an introduction by its general editor, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, here is a nearly 2,000-page, continuous discussion of the entire Quran that provides a comprehensive picture of how this sacred work has been read by Muslims for over 1,400 years.

Review: I have found that this Study Qur'an is the best Tafsir/Commentary to date in the English language - As an avid and humble student of Islamic teachings for many years who has sat at the feet of various Traditional scholars of Islamic law (fiqh), Quranic exegesis (tafsir) and Prophetic traditions (hadith) as well as Islamic spirituality (tassawuf) and learned from them intermittently, I fully endorse the Study Qur'an. In this process I have read various Commentaries of the Qur'an in English (from Mawdudi's Tafisr, to Ma'ariful Qur'an, to Allamah Tabatabai's al-Mizan, to Yusuf Ali, etc). After reading over 300 pages of this commentary already, I have found that this Study Qur'an is the best Tafsir/Commentary to date in the English language. And this for the following reasons: It is a very eloquent English translation of the Qur'an which, comparable to the eloquence of the King James Version of the Bible. It includes diverse sources of commentary, from commentary traditions within Islamic civilization, namely Sunni, Shiite commentaries from authorities ranging from those who were legalists (fuqaha), theologians, (mutakalimun), philologists, as well as spiritual authorities or saints. It is of no wonder that such a vast array of deeply informed perspectives (both mainstream, popular, and otherwise) took about 10 years to collate and integrate into one volume of commentary. The Study Quran is a monumental intellectual achievement in Islamic studies in the West, and truly anywhere in the world! To be sure, no single commentary on the Qur'an, even a commentary which brings diverse levels of Islamic references and commentaries to its own commentary, can be fully complete. That is not possible when considering the infinite wisdom contained in the eternal Word of God as manifested in the Qur'an for those who believe in it. However, the Study Qur'an is a kind of watershed event of intellectual achievement for Islamic studies and for Islam as a religious tradition in the West. It is a sign that Western Muslims (both born Muslim and converts) are living the wisdom of Islam and applying it to the current context of the West and Western civilization, and striving to live harmoniously with their surroundings without compromising their Islamic principles. The quality of bringing together in an inclusive spirit, diverse and divergent scholarly Muslims views of various Quranic verses is unique to this Study Qur'an and is a response to this very need in Islamic discourse in the West. This is the case, whether we look at the Study Qur'an from an Academic point of view or from a purely Muslim point of view. In this sense the Study Qur'an is a most welcome commentary on the Qur'an in the context of all other commentaries in English. It is a great step in the right direction of bringing the depth and breadth of the wisdom of Qur'anic and Islamic teachings to a wider audience, both Muslims and non-Muslims. I hope the next edition includes the actually Sacred Arabic text of the Qur'an. Yet, the challenge of including that, on top of a text which includes one million words is truly difficult. To those who may criticize the Study Qur'an for certain or perceived intellectual or theological biases of the editors, through cherry picking verses here and there and reacting to how those verses were presented, especially if the dominant voice or perspective in the commentaries in those contexts do not fit one's view, is to do a major disservice to the text of the Study Qur'an. Again, I welcome the Study Qur'an and deeply admire it for all the great qualities it has and brings to the table of Qur'an and Islamic studies. I also see it as an ongoing contribution to the field, which deserves critical appraisals from all sides, Academic, non-Academic, Muslims and seekers or believers of other Faith and Wisdom Traditions. May God bless the editors for their effort, which was obviously a labor of love, intellectual erudition, and faith.
Review: An Excelent Translation of the Holy Quran - In The Name of ALMIGHTY GOD, THE ONE AND ONLY, THE ABSOLUTE. By the Grace and Favour of ALMIGHTY GOD, I am a Sufi Twelver Shia Islamic Scholar and I have the following to say about this book: By the Grace and Favour of ALMIGHTY GOD, THE ONE AND ONLY, THE ABSOLUTE, this is an excelent Translation of The Holy Quran. Every person, muslim and non-muslim should have a copy of this Translation of The Holy Quran. The commentary is very good, and it has a taste of Sufism in it. It is a very long commentary, being this a positive thing, and covers all the Chapters of the Holy Book. GOD willing, this will make the reader familiar with the contents of the Holy Quran and It's Message. The Holy Quran is the last Message from ALMIGHTY GOD to all Humanity until the Day of Judgement. ALMIGHTY GOD revealed the Holy Quran to Prophet Muhammad, the last Prophet sent by GOD after who there will come no more Prophets until the Day of Judgement, when ALMIGHTY GOD will judge mankind for their actions. ALMIGHTY GOD gave The Quran to Angel Gabriel and this noble Angel brought the Holy Quran to Prophet Muhammad. The Revelation of the Quran lasted for 23 years, starting when Prophet Muhammad was 40 years old, and ending when he was 63 years old, a few months before his death. By ALMIGHTY GOD's Order, Whenever Gabriel brought a Piece of the Quran to Muhammad, Gabriel would indicate to Muhammad where to place that piece in the Quran until the last Revelation. Then, by GOD's Order, Gabriel taught Muhammad to give the Quran the form It has now, as ALMIGHTY GOD, THE ONE AND ONLY, THE ABSOLUTE, says in the Quran, Chapter 75, Verse 17. So Prophet Muhammad left the Holy Quran in the form It has now. ALMIGHTY GOD, THE ONE, THE ABSOLUTE, says in the Holy Quran, Chapter 54, Verses 17, 22, 32 and 40, that HE made the Quran very easy to understand. Although the Quran is very deep, It's Message is very easy to understand. So, dear reader do not listen to some so called Scholars who falsely say that the Quran can not be translated and has to be read in Arabic only. This is not true!! Being a Message to all Mankind, the Quran is easy to understand, and is also easy to translate to any language provided that some Islamic Criteria are met. Prophet Muhammad himself gave the exemple when he told Salman Farsi, one of his conpanions, to translate the Whole Quran in the Persian Language. And Salman Farsi did so. The Quran tells you to use your own Intelect in order to reach the Truth. And It shows you how to use your Intelect. Well, my comment ends here. I finish saying that the Holy Quran is the most fascinating Book on Earth and is the solution for all Mankind's problems.

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| Best Sellers Rank | #27,676 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #3 in Islamic Theology (Books) #5 in Islamic Social Studies #7 in Quran |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,677 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I have found that this Study Qur'an is the best Tafsir/Commentary to date in the English language
*by S***D on November 26, 2015*

As an avid and humble student of Islamic teachings for many years who has sat at the feet of various Traditional scholars of Islamic law (fiqh), Quranic exegesis (tafsir) and Prophetic traditions (hadith) as well as Islamic spirituality (tassawuf) and learned from them intermittently, I fully endorse the Study Qur'an. In this process I have read various Commentaries of the Qur'an in English (from Mawdudi's Tafisr, to Ma'ariful Qur'an, to Allamah Tabatabai's al-Mizan, to Yusuf Ali, etc). After reading over 300 pages of this commentary already, I have found that this Study Qur'an is the best Tafsir/Commentary to date in the English language. And this for the following reasons: It is a very eloquent English translation of the Qur'an which, comparable to the eloquence of the King James Version of the Bible. It includes diverse sources of commentary, from commentary traditions within Islamic civilization, namely Sunni, Shiite commentaries from authorities ranging from those who were legalists (fuqaha), theologians, (mutakalimun), philologists, as well as spiritual authorities or saints. It is of no wonder that such a vast array of deeply informed perspectives (both mainstream, popular, and otherwise) took about 10 years to collate and integrate into one volume of commentary. The Study Quran is a monumental intellectual achievement in Islamic studies in the West, and truly anywhere in the world! To be sure, no single commentary on the Qur'an, even a commentary which brings diverse levels of Islamic references and commentaries to its own commentary, can be fully complete. That is not possible when considering the infinite wisdom contained in the eternal Word of God as manifested in the Qur'an for those who believe in it. However, the Study Qur'an is a kind of watershed event of intellectual achievement for Islamic studies and for Islam as a religious tradition in the West. It is a sign that Western Muslims (both born Muslim and converts) are living the wisdom of Islam and applying it to the current context of the West and Western civilization, and striving to live harmoniously with their surroundings without compromising their Islamic principles. The quality of bringing together in an inclusive spirit, diverse and divergent scholarly Muslims views of various Quranic verses is unique to this Study Qur'an and is a response to this very need in Islamic discourse in the West. This is the case, whether we look at the Study Qur'an from an Academic point of view or from a purely Muslim point of view. In this sense the Study Qur'an is a most welcome commentary on the Qur'an in the context of all other commentaries in English. It is a great step in the right direction of bringing the depth and breadth of the wisdom of Qur'anic and Islamic teachings to a wider audience, both Muslims and non-Muslims. I hope the next edition includes the actually Sacred Arabic text of the Qur'an. Yet, the challenge of including that, on top of a text which includes one million words is truly difficult. To those who may criticize the Study Qur'an for certain or perceived intellectual or theological biases of the editors, through cherry picking verses here and there and reacting to how those verses were presented, especially if the dominant voice or perspective in the commentaries in those contexts do not fit one's view, is to do a major disservice to the text of the Study Qur'an. Again, I welcome the Study Qur'an and deeply admire it for all the great qualities it has and brings to the table of Qur'an and Islamic studies. I also see it as an ongoing contribution to the field, which deserves critical appraisals from all sides, Academic, non-Academic, Muslims and seekers or believers of other Faith and Wisdom Traditions. May God bless the editors for their effort, which was obviously a labor of love, intellectual erudition, and faith.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An Excelent Translation of the Holy Quran
*by A***R on March 28, 2017*

In The Name of ALMIGHTY GOD, THE ONE AND ONLY, THE ABSOLUTE. By the Grace and Favour of ALMIGHTY GOD, I am a Sufi Twelver Shia Islamic Scholar and I have the following to say about this book: By the Grace and Favour of ALMIGHTY GOD, THE ONE AND ONLY, THE ABSOLUTE, this is an excelent Translation of The Holy Quran. Every person, muslim and non-muslim should have a copy of this Translation of The Holy Quran. The commentary is very good, and it has a taste of Sufism in it. It is a very long commentary, being this a positive thing, and covers all the Chapters of the Holy Book. GOD willing, this will make the reader familiar with the contents of the Holy Quran and It's Message. The Holy Quran is the last Message from ALMIGHTY GOD to all Humanity until the Day of Judgement. ALMIGHTY GOD revealed the Holy Quran to Prophet Muhammad, the last Prophet sent by GOD after who there will come no more Prophets until the Day of Judgement, when ALMIGHTY GOD will judge mankind for their actions. ALMIGHTY GOD gave The Quran to Angel Gabriel and this noble Angel brought the Holy Quran to Prophet Muhammad. The Revelation of the Quran lasted for 23 years, starting when Prophet Muhammad was 40 years old, and ending when he was 63 years old, a few months before his death. By ALMIGHTY GOD's Order, Whenever Gabriel brought a Piece of the Quran to Muhammad, Gabriel would indicate to Muhammad where to place that piece in the Quran until the last Revelation. Then, by GOD's Order, Gabriel taught Muhammad to give the Quran the form It has now, as ALMIGHTY GOD, THE ONE AND ONLY, THE ABSOLUTE, says in the Quran, Chapter 75, Verse 17. So Prophet Muhammad left the Holy Quran in the form It has now. ALMIGHTY GOD, THE ONE, THE ABSOLUTE, says in the Holy Quran, Chapter 54, Verses 17, 22, 32 and 40, that HE made the Quran very easy to understand. Although the Quran is very deep, It's Message is very easy to understand. So, dear reader do not listen to some so called Scholars who falsely say that the Quran can not be translated and has to be read in Arabic only. This is not true!! Being a Message to all Mankind, the Quran is easy to understand, and is also easy to translate to any language provided that some Islamic Criteria are met. Prophet Muhammad himself gave the exemple when he told Salman Farsi, one of his conpanions, to translate the Whole Quran in the Persian Language. And Salman Farsi did so. The Quran tells you to use your own Intelect in order to reach the Truth. And It shows you how to use your Intelect. Well, my comment ends here. I finish saying that the Holy Quran is the most fascinating Book on Earth and is the solution for all Mankind's problems.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fantastic Resource
*by M***N on December 31, 2015*

Like fundamentalists of every flavor, radical Islamists come to their wars of ideas armed with proof-texts—those decontextualized bits of scripture that can be strung together in chains to justify whatever one happens to believe. In the current historical moment, this means acts of violence and cruelty in the name of one of the world’s great religions. An irony of our age is that most Western opponents of radical Islam use the same proof texts to justify bigotry against all Muslims. Just Google “Islam and Violence,” and you will find hundreds of proof-text pages with quote after quote from the Quran seeming to justify, and even require, acts of violence—which, of course, happens to be the same thing that most Islamist terrorists believe. Rarely do enemies agree so completely on first principles. The big problem though, is that (like most assertions supported by chains of oversimplified proof texts) the assertion is false. Or, at least, it is not always true, and it is not true in the ways that both violent Muslims and violent anti-Muslims assume when they start mining the Quran for reasons to fight. Into this rhetorical context comes the long-anticipated, ten-years-in-the-making, Harper Study Quran. Based on the wildly successful Harper Study Bible, and edited by practicing Muslims who are also trained and respected scholars, the Study Quran offers itself as an the first English translation to incorporate significant commentary designed to contextualize nearly every ayah (verse) in the sacred book. And I’ll be dag-nabbed if it doesn’t do it. By my rough estimates, about 90% of the book consists of verse-by-verse commentary keyed to the text by a practical (and merciful) two-color printing scheme that keys the text to the notes with bright red numbers. As I read this new Quran (and I read it straight through because I am weird like that), I found that I could not realistically read all of the commentary and still follow any kind of narrative flow. I read most of the text without the commentary, glancing down at the footnotes only when I felt that I needed more context to understand the basic meaning of a passage. The Study Quran supports this kind of reading, but it is really designed for intensive study of a passage or a theme. The editorial apparatus makes this kind of reading very easy. A comprehensive (and multi-colored) index allows readers to follow themes and ideas through the text, and a set of essays at the end of the volume brings together concepts like “Quranic Ethics, Human Rights, and Society” and “Conquest and Conversion, War and Peace in the Quran.” But however one reads it, the Study Quran’s overwhelming strength is that it provides, for nearly every verse in the Quran, both the context of its original recitation and a survey of 1400 years of scholarship. To understand why this is important, consider how the Quran is structured. Unlike the Bible, it contains very little sustained narrative, and the individual surahs (chapters) were not all revealed as discrete units, so each ayah has an independent context of original reception. The Quran, in other words, lends itself to proof texting even better than the Hebrew or Christian Bibles—and that’s saying something. The editors of the Study Quran patiently and painstakingly reconstruct, to the extent possible, the original context of each recitation in the entire book and make that reconstructed context available to any reader willing to devote the time attention required to understand it. The results are remarkable, and they have the wonderful added effect of limiting the ability of both adherents and detractors to manipulate the book’s meaning through uncritical prooftexting. Here is one example (though I wish I had the space for a dozen) of what happens when a passage often used to justify both violence and Islamophobia undergoes the Study Quran’s contextualizing treatment. In the 33rd Ayah of Surah 5 (The Table Spread), we read the following injunction: Verily, the recompense of those who wage war against God and His Messenger, and endeavor to work corruption upon the earth is that they be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet cut off from opposite sides, or be banished from the land. Pretty gruesome, to be sure, and also pretty clear. But the editors of the Study Quran want us to know two things that no other single-volume English translation will tell us: 1) that this passage was recited in a specific instance and for a specific purpose; and 2) that there is a long tradition of Muslim scholarship and jurisprudence interpreting this verse. The context was a specific and extremely bloody attack upon the Muslim community in Madinah. After accepting a group of Bedouins into the community under the pretense of conversion, Mohammad allowed them to depart when they claimed that they were not comfortable with city life. He sent camels with them “for milk and sustenance” and a Muslim camel herder to help them on their way. “Once outside the city, however, they brutally maimed and killed the camelheard and made off with the camels the Prophet had given them to use (293). In context, then, the punishments in the passage were mandated against specific individuals who had acted with impunity to terrorize the Muslim community. And, the editors explain, the verse has NOT normally been interpreted as a general process for dealing with apostates: Given that the perpetrators were also, among other things, apostates . . . since they embraced Islam in the presence of the Prophet, then renounced it through their actions, a small minority have considered the verse to apply to apostates in general. It seems clear, however, that the severe punishments in this verse pertain specifically to those who commit various crimes brazenly and with exceptional brutality, violence and terrorization of innocent people. (293) This contextualizing commentary does not erase the violence in the text, of course. But it does limit its application among those willing to consider things like why a passage was originally given and what it has meant to fourteen centuries of devout Muslim scholars. And these are things that both Muslims and non-Muslims need to understand. For those who believe, as I do, that humanity’s survival into the next century will require us to understand and appreciate each other’s deepest beliefs, The Study Quran is a gift and a treasure. It does not make understanding Islam easy, but it makes it possible—if we are willing to invest the effort it takes to accept the gift and heft the treasure. And for English-speaking Muslims who are not terrorists and radical Islamists (which is about 99.9% of the total), it provides a valuable tool for deepening faith and demonstrating the shallowness of the proof-texters who constantly attack them. In an interview with CNN shortly after the volume’s publication, the lead editor, Seyyed Hossein Nasr argued that “the best way to counter extremism in modern Islam is a revival of classical Islam.” That is a tall order for any single book, but I suspect that, if a revival of classical Islam ever happens in the English-speaking world, the revivalists will all carry copies of the Study Quran–and the revolution will be extensively footnoted.

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