Seyyed Hossein Nasr et al. (eds.) - The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary

1. How to Read the Quran
   Ingrid Mattson
2. The Quran in Translation
   Joseph Lumbard
3. The Islamic View of the Quran
   Muhammad Mustafa al-Azami
4. Quranic Arabic: Its Characteristics and Impact on Arabic Language and Literature and the Languages and Literatures of Other Islamic Peoples
   Muhammad Abdel Haleem
5. Quranic Commentaries
   Walid Saleh
6. Traditions of Esoteric and Sapiential Quranic Commentary
   Toby Mayer
7. Scientific Commentary on the Quran
   Muzaffar Iqbal
8. The Quran as Source of Islamic Law
   Amad Muammad al-ayyib
9. The Quran and Schools of Islamic Theology and Philosophy
   Muaf Muaqqiq Dmd
10. The Quran and Sufism
    William C. Chittick
11. The Quran and Islamic Art
    Jean-Louis Michon
12. The Quranic View of Sacred History and Other Religions
    Joseph Lumbard
13. Quranic Ethics, Human Rights, and Society
    Maria Massi Dakake
14. Conquest and Conversion, War and Peace in the Quran
    Caner K. Dagli
15. Death, Dying, and the Afterlife in the Quran
    Hamza Yusuf
16. Appendix A
    adth Citations
17. Appendix B
    Time Line of Major Events Related to the Quran
18. Appendix C
    Biographies of Commentators

SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR (Editor-in-Chief), University Professor of Islamic Studies at the George Washington University, is an international authority on Islamic philosophy, mysticism, art, and science as well as comparative religion and religion and ecology. He is the author of dozens of books and hundreds of articles and the subject of a number of books, edited collections, and articles. Some of his recent publications include The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism (2007), Islams Mystical Tradition (2007), Islam in the Modern World (2010), In Search of the Sacred (2010), and Metaphysical Penetrations (a translation of Mull adrs Kitb al-Mashir, 2014).

CANER K. DAGLI (General Editor), Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross, is a specialist in Sufism, Islamic philosophy, interfaith dialogue, and Quranic studies. His publications include The Ringstones of Wisdom (an annotated translation of Ibn al-Arabs Fu al-ikam, 2004), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Science, Philosophy, and Technology in Islam (senior coeditor, 2014), and Ibn al-Arab and Islamic Intellectual Culture: From Mysticism to Philosophy (2015).

MARIA MASSI DAKAKE (General Editor) is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at George Mason University, specializing in Shiism, Sufism, Islamic philosophy and theology, the Quran, interfaith dialogue, and issues related to women and the feminine in classical Islam. She is the author of The Charismatic Community: Shite Identity in Early Islam (2007) and coeditor of The Routledge Companion to the Quran (forthcoming).

JOSEPH E. B. LUMBARD (General Editor) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Arabic and Translation Studies at the American University of Sharjah and an Associate Editor for the Integrated Encyclopedia of the Qurn (in progress). A specialist in Quranic studies, Sufism, Islamic philosophy, comparative theology, and Islamic ecotheology, he is the editor of Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition (2nd edition, 2010), and author of Submission, Faith, and Beauty: The Religion of Islam (2009) and Love and Remembrance: The Life and Teachings of Amad al-Ghazl (2016).

MOHAMMED RUSTOM (Assistant Editor), Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Carleton University, specializes in Sufism, Islamic philosophy and theology, and Quranic exegesis. He is the author of The Triumph of Mercy: Philosophy and Scripture in Mull adr (2012) and translator of Ab mid al-Ghazzls The Condemnation of Pride and Self-Admiration (2017).

Seyyed Hossein Nasr supervised the entire Study Quran, including selecting the editorial board and essay authors; editing the translation, commentary, and essays; and overseeing the style and scope of the translation and commentary. Caner K. Dagli wrote the commentary for srahs 23, 89, and 2128, was the primary translator for srahs 23, 89, and 2228, and was an editor for the remainder of the translation and commentary; he also conceived and supervised the design of the book. Maria Massi Dakake wrote the commentary for srahs 47 and 1619, was the primary translator for srahs 47, 1012, and 1421, and was an editor for the remainder of the translation and commentary. Joseph E. B. Lumbard wrote the commentary for srahs 1 and 29114, was the primary translator for srahs 1, 13, and 29114, and was an editor for the remainder of the translation and commentary. Mohammed Rustom wrote the commentary for srahs 1015 and 20 and contributed to editing other parts of the commentary and the translation.

Major funding for The Study Quran was provided by:

The Institute for Religion and Civic Values
The El-Hibri Foundation

The following organizations and individuals provided additional support:

His Majesty King Abdallah II
The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies
The Radius Foundation
Sheikh Abdul Rahman and Sadiqua Rahman
Steve and Debra York
The Islamic Speakers Bureau of Atlanta

W e would like to express our gratitude to our contributors for their generous support. The funds provided allowed the editors to devote their time to The Study Quran and subsidized the many research assistants whose contributions have been invaluable. We must also thank Shabbir Mansuri, Munir Sheikh, Karim El-Hibri, and Zen Hunter Ishikawa for their assistance in procuring and managing these funds.

George Mason University and the College of the Holy Cross provided generous leaves and financial assistance that contributed to the completion of this project.

The editors of The Study Quran wish to thank the authors of the essays for their excellent contributions. We are grateful to Daoud Casewit for his work on the citations of adth and sayings, and for conceiving of and providing the initial drawings for the maps. We also wish to thank Ryan Brizendine for several years of invaluable editorial work as well as Shankar Nair, Arjun Nair, Hamilton Cook, Sayed Amir Mirtaheri, and Abigail Tardiff, all of whom helped with research, editorial work, indexes, and the preparation of the text for publication. Their work has vastly improved the final product, though any errors remain our own.

Our special thanks go to HarperOne and its editors Eric Brandt, who helped launch the project, and Mickey Maudlin, who has guided the project to completion, along with all those who helped to prepare the text for publication, especially Ann Moru, who skillfully copyedited an enormous, demanding, and complex text, as well as our production editors, Suzanne Quist and Natalie Blachere. We would like to thank Ralph Fowler, who typeset the book, and Shiraz Sheikh, who indexed it. We are also grateful to Stephen Hanselman, our literary agent, who first proposed this project when he was an editor with HarperOne. Many friends and colleagues have made helpful suggestions and provided invaluable advice along the way. They are too numerous to name here, though we owe them all a debt of gratitude. We were honored to have the American master calligrapher Mohamed Zakariya provide the Arabic calligraphy that appears in the text.