The Global Qur’an (GloQur) Johanna Pink | March 10, 2020 Critical Approaches / Texts & Translations AboutCritical Approaches “The Global Qur’an (GloQur)” will be the first project that tackles the global dimension of Muslim Qur’an translation in the 20th and 21st centuries, a topic that has so far attracted surprisingly little attention in Islamic Studies. Read the rest of this entry
“Do Not Take Unbelievers as Your Leaders” The Politics of Translation in Indonesia Jeremy Menchik | March 31, 2016 Critical Approaches / Texts & Translations AboutCritical Approaches After achieving independence in 1945, Indonesian leaders began tackling the basic questions that faced all postcolonial state-builders: What principles would guide the state and nation? Communism or capitalism? Secularism or Islam? How could they craft a common national identity from a diverse population? It is against this backdrop that in the April 1954 issue of the popular Indonesian Muslim periodical Al-Muslimun, the editors published an unusual translation of a well-known verse from Sūrat al-Nisāʾ of the Qur’an from Arabic into Indonesian... Read the rest of this entry