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1. Cover
2. Table of Contents
3. Acknowledgements
4. Transliteration Notes
5. Contributors
6. Map
7. List of Illustrations
8. Introduction
9. 1. Hybrid Subjectivity in a Translation of the Qur’an: al-Ramzī’s Farewell to Sufism
10. 2. ‘Vernacular Qur’anic Space’ within Post-Soviet Uzbekistan: A Qur’an Translation by a Leader of the Turkestani Émigré Community, and its Uzbek Competition
11. 3. ‘I Quenched the Thirst of Seventy Million’:1 Sumayya ʿAfīfī, an Egyptian Qur’an Translator for a Post-Soviet Readership2
12. 4. The State, ‘Official’ ʿUlamāʾ and Tatar Qur’an Commentary-Translations in Russia
13. 5. A ‘Qur’an Race’ in the Cold War: Max Henning’s Qur’an Translation in the German Democratic Republic
14. 6. Constructing a Qur’an-Based sīra in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan: Denominational Approaches to the Prophet’s Biography in Azerbaijani Qur’an Translations
15. 7. Implications of Theological Diversity in Shii-Authored Translations of the Qur’an and tafsīrs into Russian
16. Index
17. About the Team
18. This book need not end here…
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20. Back cover

Headings Outline

• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
  • Funding
• Transliteration Notes
• Contributors
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction
  • Why Qur’an Translations in the Former Eastern Bloc?1
  • A Survey of the Contributions to this Volume
  • Bibliography
• 1. Hybrid Subjectivity in a Translation of the Qur’an: al-Ramzī’s Farewell to Sufism
  • Introduction1
  • Yet Another Male Biography
  • The Production of the Manuscript
  • Al-Ramzī the Scholar
  • Al-Ramzī the Sufi
  • Al-Ramzī the Translator
  • Al-Ramzī the Warrior
  • Discussion
  • Appendix
    • Muḥammad Murād al-Ramzī, An Explanation of Holy War in Islam120
  • Post Scriptum125
  • Bibliography
• 2. ‘Vernacular Qur’anic Space’ within Post-Soviet Uzbekistan: A Qur’an Translation by a Leader of the Turkestani Émigré Community, and its Uzbek Competition
  • Introduction
  • Al-Ṭarāzī’s Qur’an Translation in Soviet Uzbekistan31
  • The Vernacular Qur’anic Space in Uzbekistan at the Turn of the 1990s
  • The Circulation of al-Ṭarāzī’s Qur’an Translation within Post-Soviet Uzbekistan
    • The Gifts of a Turkestani Emigrant from the USA
    • Al-Ṭarāzī’s Qur’an Translation in the Collections Held at the Mir-i ʿArab Madrasa and the Tashkent Islamic Institute
    • Pilgrimage Trips and jumʿa-bazaars
  • The Tashkent Editions of al-Ṭarāzī’s Qur’an Translation, and Their Competition
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Bibliography
• 3. ‘I Quenched the Thirst of Seventy Million’:1 Sumayya ʿAfīfī, an Egyptian Qur’an Translator for a Post-Soviet Readership2
  • Introduction
  • Between Nasserism and Communism: Sumayya ʿAfīfī’s Life Trajectory
  • The Ṣaḥwa and Sumayya ʿAfīfī’s ‘Islamic’ Persona
  • The Beginning of ʿAfīfī’s Involvement with daʿwa and the Russian аl-Muntakhab
  • The Spiritual Significance of Qur’an Translation
  • Some Remarks on Reception
  • Bibliography
• 4. The State, ‘Official’ ʿUlamāʾ and Tatar Qur’an Commentary-Translations in Russia
  • Introduction
  • The Türki-Tatar Qur’an Commentary Tradition Prior to 1917
  • The Muftiate and the Qur’an Debates
  • The Role of the Qur’an in the Domesticisation of Islam in Russia
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
• 5. A ‘Qur’an Race’ in the Cold War: Max Henning’s Qur’an Translation in the German Democratic Republic
  • Introduction
  • Henning’s Original Qur’an Translation in its Wilhelminian Context
  • After the War: The German Division and the Division of Reclam
  • Reclam Stuttgart’s Henning-Schimmel Edition
  • East of the Iron Curtain: Reclam Leipzig in the GDR Book Market of the 1960s
  • Between Scholarship and Ideology: Preparing a Qur’an Edition for Socialist Readers
  • A Better Qur’an from ‘the Better Germany’: Outdoing the FRG
  • A Prophet for GDR Readers: The Leipzig Edition’s Framing of Islam
  • The West has Won: Henning’s Translation after Reunification
  • Bibliography
• 6. Constructing a Qur’an-Based sīra in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan: Denominational Approaches to the Prophet’s Biography in Azerbaijani Qur’an Translations
  • Introduction
  • Qur’an Translations by Azerbaijani Arabists: The Incorporation of the Classical sīra Tradition into the Framework of the Qur’an
  • Institutional Translations Affiliated with Foreign Organisations: Competing Versions of the sīra with Different Companion Circles
  • Diversification in Translation: Varying Approaches to the Inclusion of sīra in Translations of the Qur’an
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
• 7. Implications of Theological Diversity in Shii-Authored Translations of the Qur’an and tafsīrs into Russian
  • Russian-Language Qur’anic Literature
  • Academic Translations: Prozorov’s Translation of Tafsīr al-Mīzān
  • Iranian-Authored Translations:Svet Sviashchennogo Korana:Raz’iasneniia i tolkovaniia
  • Translations by Local Shii Scholars
    • Amin Ramin’s tafsīr and Translation of al-Sayyid Hāshim al-Baḥrānī’s al-Burhān fī tafsīr al-Qurʾān
    • Nazim Zeinalov’s Sviashchennyi Koran. Perevod i kommentarii49
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
• Index
• About the Team
• This book need not end here…
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