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urn:uuid:a42032e9-53be-4042-9d71-f1109bec8c4f 03 15 9781805111795 00 EB E101 10 10 02 27538044 01 02 The Global Qur'an 01 01 The Kingdom and the Qur’an Translating the Holy Book of Islam in Saudi Arabia 1 A01 Mykhaylo Yakubovych Mykhaylo Yakubovych (born 1986 in Ostroh, Ukraine) obtained his PhD in 2011 from The National University of Ostroh Academy with a study on interreligous relations in medieval Sunni traditionalism. Currently a member of the research team on the ERC-funded project ‘GloQur—The Global Qur’an’ (University of Freiburg, Germany), he studies Qur’an translations produced by international institutions and publishers, with a focus on Central Asian and Eastern European languages. He is the author of an annotated translation of the Qur’an into Ukrainian (first published in 2013), along with several books and translations from Arabic, and many research articles published in academic journals from the UK, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Australia. Yakubovych has conducted several academic projects on the Islamic manuscript heritage, including the post-classical intellectual history of the Crimean Khanate (at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, USA) and sixteenth-seventeenth century Qur’an interpretations produced by Lithuanian Tatars (at Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland). 01 eng 00 226 03 23 Archaeology and Religion 04 BP131.13 12 HRAX 10 LAN023000 23 Qur'an translation 10 HIS037060 12 JFSR2 23 Linguistics 23 Saudi Arabia 12 1FBXS 23 History 23 Islamic theology 10 REL037060 10 HIS037070 23 Modern print culture 23 Middle Eastern political history 10 REL006000 23 Translation studies 01 06 03 00 This book presents a detailed analysis of the translation of the Qur’an in Saudi Arabia, the most important global actor in the promotion, production and dissemination of Qur’an translations. From the first attempts at translation in the mid-twentieth century to more recent state-driven efforts concerned with international impact, The Kingdom and the Qur’an adeptly elucidates the link between contemporary Islamic theology and the advent of modern print culture. It investigates this critical juncture in both Middle Eastern political history and the intellectual evolution of the Muslim world, interweaving literary, socio-historical, and socio-anthropological threads to depict the intricate backdrop of the Saudi ‘Qur'an translation movement’.Mykhaylo Yakubovych provides a comprehensive historical overview of the debates surrounding the translatability of the Qur'an, as well as exploring the impact of the burgeoning translation and dissemination of the holy book upon Wahhabi and Salafi interpretations of Islam. Backed by meticulous research and drawing on a wealth of sources, this work illuminates an essential facet of global Islamic culture and scholarly discourse. 04 00 A Note on the Author Acknowledgements Notes on Transliteration and Translation Abbreviations Introduction 1. Twentieth-Century Debates on the Translatability of the Qur’an in the Middle East 2. The Muslim World League: A Forerunner to International Translational daʿwa Networks 3. The Hilālī-Khān Translation: The First Interpretation of the Qur’an in a Foreign Language by Saudi Scholars 4. The King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Qur’an: A Turning Point in the History of Qur’an Translations 5. Translation for Everyone: Collaborative Saudi Publishing Projects in Foreign Languages Conclusion Bibliography Index Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers 04 01 20240208 02 WORLD 06 15 9781805111764 06 15 9781805111771 06 15 9781805111788 06 15 9781805111818 06 15 9781805111795 WORLD 09 Open Book Publishers 20 02 5.99 GBP WORLD