Bandwagon-jumping: Blogging the Qur'an!

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Bandwagon-jumping: Blogging the Qur'an!
OP - April 26, 2009, 02:42 PM

Hey folks, just want to refer you to my blog (which I didn't update in ages, and usually use to store scraps I find interesting online, though I do have a few decent posts on it, lol), which I have now started to use to blog the Qur'an.

I have a new translation by Tarif Khalidi, a great guy who wrote The Muslim Jesus (a collection of ahadith of Jesus in Islamic literature and folklore). It is a surprisingly readable translation of the Qur'an, and fabulously laid out. I decided to log my reactions to it!

http://rascaduanok.blogspot.com/

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Re: Bandwagon-jumping: Blogging the Qur'an!
Reply #1 - April 26, 2009, 09:45 PM

Quote from: Pazuzu on April 26, 2009, 02:42 PM
Hey folks, just want to refer you to my blog (which I didn't update in ages, and usually use to store scraps I find interesting online, though I do have a few decent posts on it, lol), which I have now started to use to blog the Qur'an.

I have a new translation by Tarif Khalidi, a great guy who wrote The Muslim Jesus (a collection of ahadith of Jesus in Islamic literature and folklore). It is a surprisingly readable translation of the Qur'an, and fabulously laid out. I decided to log my reactions to it!

http://rascaduanok.blogspot.com/

I don't know why I didn't have your blog on my blogroll before Pazuzu - but I have corrected that oversight now, mate.

I love it so far (am still reading it)
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Re: Bandwagon-jumping: Blogging the Qur'an!
Reply #2 - April 27, 2009, 07:42 AM

Does it have Arabic on the side? Does it follow the English direction or the Arabic direction? Footnotes? Commentary?

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Re: Bandwagon-jumping: Blogging the Qur'an!
Reply #3 - April 27, 2009, 07:31 PM

Alas no. It's pretty sparse, though with a great introduction, and a small glossary for non-muslims at the back, explaining some key terms they arise first time in the Qur'an.

Incidentally, I've now put up my comments on the whole of the second Surah.

http://rascaduanok.blogspot.com/2009/04/blogging-quran-part-2-al-baqarah.html

I flag towards the end and didn't write everything I wanted to, but it should get easier from here now that the really long and convoluted boring stuff is out of the way!

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Re: Bandwagon-jumping: Blogging the Qur'an!
Reply #4 - May 01, 2009, 03:12 AM

Quote from: Pazuzu on April 27, 2009, 07:31 PM
Incidentally, I've now put up my comments on the whole of the second Surah.

http://rascaduanok.blogspot.com/2009/04/blogging-quran-part-2-al-baqarah.html

I flag towards the end and didn't write everything I wanted to, but it should get easier from here now that the really long and convoluted boring stuff is out of the way!

Your commentary is very balanced. However, I thought the prayer at the end of Sura al-Baqara was quite nice ... I mean, an atheist could question the point of prayer at all, but I didn't think it was offensive or anything.

Verses 263-4 are also good -- you're right, probably some of the best ones in the Quran.
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Re: Bandwagon-jumping: Blogging the Qur'an!
Reply #5 - May 01, 2009, 11:14 PM

Quote from: ned on May 01, 2009, 03:12 AM
However, I thought the prayer at the end of Sura al-Baqara was quite nice ... I mean, an atheist could question the point of prayer at all, but I didn't think it was offensive or anything.

Neither did I. I don't mind it, though it does smack of the Lord's Prayer a little bit, but my issue with it was that the Qur'an is supposed to consist of the words of allah and not Muhammad, though that passage quite clearly shows a devotional attitude to god that would be completely arrogant, schizophrenic and unbecoming from a deity!

Thanks for reading. I'll be starting surah al-`Imran shortly.

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