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Blurb: “THE KORAN - TRANSLATED BY N. J. DAWOOD
The Koran, as Mr Dawood claims, 'is not only one of the greatest books of prophetic literature but also a literary masterpiece of surpassing excel-lence'. Unquestioningly accepted by Muslims to be the infallible word of Allah as revealed to Mohammed by the Angel Gabriel over thirteen hundred years ago, the Koran still provides the basic rules of conduct fundamental to the Arab way of life. Mr Dawood has produced a translation which retains the beauty of the original, altering the traditional arrangement to increase the understanding and pleasure for the uninitiated.
The cover shows the title-page of an Egyptian Koran of 1304 in the British Museum (photo John Freeman)”