This is a list of translations of the Quran. This is a sub-article to Qur'an translations.
Historical (up to the 21st century)
7th–10th centuries Salman the Persian translated the first chapter of the Qur'an, Al-Fatiha, from Arabic to Persian.An-Nawawi, Al-Majmu', (Cairo, Matbacat at-'Tadamun n.d.), 380. Greek: The purpose is unknown but it is confirmed to be the first-ever complete translation of the Quran. It is known (and substantial fragments of it are preserved) because it was used by Nicetas Byzantius, a scholar from Constantinople, in his 'Refutation' written between 855 and 870.Christian Høgel, "An early anonymous Greek translation of the Qur'an. The fragments from Niketas Byzantios' Refutatio and the anonymous Abjuratio", Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 7 (2010), pp. 65–119; Kees Versteegh, "Greek translations of the Quran in Christian polemics (9th century)", Zeitschrift der Deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft 141 (1991); Astérios Argyriou, "Perception de l'Islam et traductions du Coran dans le monde byzantin grec", Byzantion 75 (2005); Christian Høgel, The Greek Qur'an: scholarship and evaluations. Orientalia Suecana, 61 (Suppl.) (2013), pp. 173–180. Although not existing today, a Sindhi translation was completed in 884 in Alwar (present-day Sindh, Pakistan), which had been commissioned by Abdullah bin Umar bin Abdul Aziz. This is inferred from two references: "...an anonymous early 9th century Kashmiri Hindu king..." wrote a letter to Amir Abdullah bin Umar bin Abdul Aziz of Mansura, requesting him to dispatch a scholar to his court who could explain the tenets of the Islamic Shariah in the language "al-Hindia".Directorate of Information, Kashmir Today, Srinagar: Government of Jammu and Kashmir, 1998, pp. 113–14. The 9th-century Persian traveller Buzurg bin Shahryar mentions in his travelogue, Ajaib-ul-Hind [The Wonders of India], that the Hindu king of Mehroke in Kashmir had commissioned the preparation of a Kashmiri translation of the Quran.Khwaja Muhammad 'Azam Didamari, Waqi'at-i-Kashmir (The History of Kashmir) [translated by Khwaja Hamid Yazdani], Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Islamic Research Center, 1998, p. 117.
An incomplete Berber translation may have been promulgated by the Barghawata King Salih ibn Tarif in the 8th century, radically expanded with original, non-Quranic material which he claimed had been revealed to him.
10th century Tafsir-e Tabari: The first complete translation of the Quran in Persian, along with its tafsir, which has survived till today. The book is a translation of Tafsir al-Tabari in Arabic.
11th century Persian translation which is called Qur'an Quds was translated by an unknown translator. Kashf al-Israr wa 'Eddat al-Abrar (lit. Unveiling of the Mysteries and Provision of the Righteous): Complete translation and tafsir of Quran in Persian by one of the students of Abu Mansur Abdullah al-Ansari. The book is available and has been published.
12th century 1143, Latin, Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete, by a group led by Robert of Ketton and Hermann of Carinthia, under direction of Peter the Venerable. Tafsir Nasafi: Complete Persian translation, along with the Quran exegesis, by Najm al-Din Abu Hafs al-Nasafi. The work has recently been published. Quran was translated into Punjabi by Sufis of Punjab in Shah Mukhi script for ease of understanding for the local population (Punjabis). Same Sufis had earlier created "Shah Mukhi" script by combining Arabic and Persian alphabets.
13th century 1193–1216, Latin, an improved Latin translation from Arabic by Mark of Toledo (fl. 1193–1216)
16th century 1518–1525: Latin translation of the Quran by Juan Gabriel of Teruel and Leo Africanus, which was commissioned by Giles of Viterbo. 1543 reprint Latin text of Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete (1143), edited by Theodor Bibliander. 1547 enigmatical Italian edition, printed at Venice. Belarusian Tatars` manuscripts (kitabs)
17th century 17th century Malay, Tafsir Tarjuman al-Mustafid by Shaikh Abdur Ra'uf al-Fansuri from Aceh Sultanate. This is the first translation in Malay. The translation is in the classical Malay language (not to be confused with Malaysian) before it evolved into Indonesian and Malaysian in recent times. This translation was written with Jawi script. 1616, German, Alcoranus Mahometicus from Italian by Salomon Schweigger, Nuremberg. 1622, Latin, Animadversiones, Notae ac Disputationes in Pestilentem Alcoranum (MS A-IV-4), which also includes the complete original Arabic text. It was translated by the Genoese Jesuit priest Ignazio Lomellini (1560–1645). 1632, Latin, Turcarum Alcoranus from Arabic by Johann Zechendorff (1580–1662), unpublished manuscriptRoberto Tottoli: The Latin Translation of the Qurʾān by Johann Zechendorff (1580-1662) discovered in Cairo Dār al-Kutub. Oriente Moderno, 95.2015, S. 5–31 1647, French, L'Alcoran de Mahomet from Arabic by Andre du Ryer, the third from the original Arabic directly into a European language, the first two being to Latin (12th century, 13th century). 1649, English, Alcoran of Mahomet from the French by Alexander Ross. 1657, Dutch, Mahomets Alkoran translated from the French by Jan Hendriksz Glazemaker. 1686, Polish, the Minsk tafsir, first suras were written in Turkish, but from the 19th and onwards they were written in Polish using the Arabic alphabet, translation by Tatars. 1698, Latin, a third Latin translation from Arabic, extensively annotated, sometimes from a Christian perspective, preceded by a biography of the Prophet and a discussion of Islamic doctrines, by Father Louis Maracci, Padua.
18th century 1716, Russian, «Алкоран о Магомете, или Закон турецкий» (Al-Koran of Mahomet, or the Turkish Law) by P. V. Postnikov.П. В. Густерин. Первый переводчик и первое издание Корана на русском языке // Исламоведение. — 2011. — № 1. 1734, English, The Koran by George Sale, Translated into English immediately from the original Arabic with explanatory notes and commentaries and evidently making use of the Latin translation of Maracci (1698).One of the copies owned by American Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, on which Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, was sworn. 1749, Sindhi, "Tafsir-e-Hashmi" by Makhdoom Muhammad Hashim Thattvi. First commentary of the Quran in Sindhi and the most ancient translation of Quran in Sindhi that could be found. 1790, Russian, "Книга Аль-Коран аравлянина Магомета ..." by M. I. Veryovkin. 1792, Russian, "Ал-Коран Магомедов ..." by A. V. Kolmakov. 1793, Persian, Tafsir 'Azizi, Abd al-Aziz Dehlawi
19th century 1828, Urdu, Muzihul-al-Quran by Shah Abdul Qadir Dehlvi, first Urdu translation of Quran 1834, Gustav Leberecht Flügel's text formed the foundation of modern Qur'an research and the basis for several new translations into European languages. 1834 Swedish Koran öfversatt från arabiska originalet by 1858, Polish, Quran (al Quran) by Jan Murza Tarak Buczacki. 1861, English, The Koran by John Medows Rodwell. 1864, Russian, "Коран Магомеда" by K. Nikolayev. 1871 (issued 1995), Russian, "Коран Магомеда" by D. N. Boguslavsky. 1878 (reissued a lot of times), Russian, "Коран, законодательная книга мохаммеданского вероучения" by G. S. Sablukov. 1880, English, The Koran, by Edward Henry Palmer. 1886, Bengali, by Girish Chandra Sen 1895, Serbian, "Коран" by Mićo Ljubibratić 1896, Urdu,Tarjuma-i Qur’an by Nazeer Ahmad Dehlvi
20th century Later translated into various other languages including English. 1902, Urdu, Tarjamul Quran by Maulana Aashiq Ilahi Meeruti. 1905, Urdu, Bayanul Quran by Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi. 1909, Western Armenian, Ղուրան by Abraham Amirkhanyan. 1911, Western Armenian, Քուրան (Հանդերձ Մուհամմէտի կենսագրութեամբ) by Levon Larents. 1912, Western Armenian, Գուրան by Hagop Kurbetian. 1910 Urdu, "Tafseer E Siddiqui" By[Bahrululoom Muhammad Abdul Quadeer Siddiqui (HASRAT) RH. 1912, Urdu, Kanzul Iman by Maulana Ahmad Raza Khan. 1912, Romanian, Coranul by Silvestru Octavian Isopescul 1915–19, Urdu, Tarjuma Shaikhul Hind by Maulana Mahmud ul Hasan Deobandi. 1917, English, The English Translation of the Holy Qur'an with Commentary by Maulana Muhammad Ali. 1961 Urdu, Mafhoom-ul-Quran by Ghulam Ahmed Perwez. 1930, English, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran, by Marmaduke Pickthall.() 1934, English, The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary, by Abdullah Yusuf Ali.() 1936, Croatian, Kur'an by Hafiz Muhamed Pandža and Džemaludin Čaušević 1936, Hebrew, AlQur'an, by Josef Rivlin. 1943-1955/1980, Turkish, Tanrı Buyruğu: Kur’ân-ı Kerîm’in Tercüme ve Tefsiri (İstanbul 1943, 1947, 1955, 1980), by Ömer Rıza Doğrul 1955, English, The Koran Interpreted: A Translation, by Arthur John Arberry.() 1963 (reissued a lot of times), Russian, "Коран" by I. Yu. Krachkovsky. 1971, English, The Quran, by Muhammad Zafrulla Khan. 1971, Hebrew, HaQur'an, by Aharon Ben-Shemesh. 1974, English, The Message of the Qur'an : Presented in Perspective by Hashim Amir Ali (Hyderabad, Deccan, India). He translated the Qur'an into English and arranged it according to chronological order. 1978, Kannada, Divya Qur'an, Qur'an Majid, (An effort of six scholars: Mawlana Shah Abd al-Qadir, Mawlana Sayyid, Abu Raihan Ahmed Noori, Abd Allah Sahib, I’jaz al-Din and Abd al-Ghaffar), 2 volumes, Bangalore. 1980, Kurdish, Tefsîra Şîrîn by Mula Muhammad Shirine Nivili. 1980, English Transliteration, Arabic Text written in Latin Script by Maulana Maqsood Ahmad Naseem, Germany. 1980, English, The Message of The Qur'an by Muhammad Asad (born as Leopold Weiss a Polish Jew, converted to Islam in 1926). 1981, English, Al Qur'aan, by As Sayyid Imam Isa Al Haadi Al Mahdi, founder of the Ansaaru Allah Community of the West. 1985, English, Noble Qur'an, by Muhammad Muhsin Khan. 1985, English, The Qur'an: First American Version, by T. B. Irving. 1986, Polish Koran by Józef Bielawski. 1987, Kurdish Nami Tafsir by Abdul Karim Mudarris. 1987, Hungarian Korán by Róbert Simon. 1989-05, English, The Qur'an, by Muhammad Habib Shakir. 1989, Kurdish Hazhar Tafsir by Abdurrahman Sharafkandi. 1990s, Khowar also known as Chitrali Language, spoken in the North West of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, by Qari Syed Bazurg Shah Al-Azhari (Sitara Imtiaz). 1990, Belarusian, Свяшчэнны Каран. Анталогія, by Tomasz Tamaszewicz, Hrodna, Belarus 1991, English, The Clarion Call of the Eternal Qur-aan, by Muhammad Khalilur Rahman from Dhaka, Bangladesh. 1991, Hindi, Quran Sharif: Anuwad awr Vyakhya by Jamiat Ulama Hind, New Delhi, India. 1993, Sindhi, Kanzul-i-iman by Mufti Muhammad Raheem Sikandri Pir jo Goth Dargah Shareef Pir Pagara. 1993, English, A Simple Translation of The Holy Qur'an (with notes on Topics of Science), by Mir Aneesuddin. 1994, Kurdish, "Qurana Pîroz û Arşa Wê ya Bilind" by Abdullah Varli. 1995, Russian, «Коран» by T. A. Shumovsky. 1995, Russian, «Коран» by M.-N. O. Osmanov. 1996, English, El's Holy Qur'an, by Malachi Z. York for the Holy Tabernacle Ministries. 1997, Russian, "Коран" by V. M. Porokhova. 1998, Swedish, Koranens budskap, by Mohammed Knut Bernström 1998, Urdu, English Bayan-ul-Quran by Israr Ahmed 1998, Turkish, Kur'an-ı Kerim ve Türkçe Meâl-i Âlisi, by Ömer Öngüt 1999, German, Edlen Qur’ân by Ömer Öngüt 2000, Romanian, Coranul by George Grigore
21st century 2001, Kurdish, "تەفسیرا ژیان" by Ismail Sgeri. 2002, Russian, "Коран" by E. R. Kuliyev. 2003, Kurdish, "Meala Fîrûz Şerha Qur’ana Pîroz" by Mula Muhammad Garsi Farqini. 2004, Kurdish, "تەفسیری ئاسان" by Burhan Muhammad Amin. 2005, Kurdish, "تەفسیری ڕامان" by Ahmed Kaka Mahmood. 2005 (January), Bengali, "Al-Qur-aa-nul-Hakeem" by Professor Maulana Hafez Shaikh Ainul Bari Aliavee, Published by Sufia Prakashani, Kolkata (INDIA). 2006, Eastern Armenian, Սուրբ Ղուրան by Eduard Hakhverdyan. 2007, Burushaski, "Al Qur'an Al Karim, Burushaski Tarjuma (القرآن الکریم برشسکی ترجمہ)" by Aalijah Ghulam Uddin Ghulam Hunzai, Published by Oxford Gilgit Printers 2007, Kurdish, "Ronahîya Qur’ana Pîroz" by Mula Muhammad Hakari.