Translations From Urdu Into English
- The Meaning of the Qur'an (Lahore, 1967), by Muhammad Akbar is the first English translation of Maulana Abul Ala Maududi's original Urdu translation of the Qur'an. Towards Understanding the Qur'an (2006) is a later English translation by Dr. Zafar Ishaq Ansari.
- Kanzul Iman, Ahmad Raza Khan Barelvi's (1856-1921 C,E,1272-1340 H) Urdu translation, originally published in 1910, has been translated into English several times. The first translation into English was by University of Kuwait-based Professor Hanif Akhtar Fatmi. A second translation was completed by Professor Shah Fareed al Haq in Pakistan. Aqib Farid Qadri recently published a third translation.
- Exposition of the Holy Quran (1996) by Ghulam Ahmed Pervez is an English rendering of the 1961 Urdu translation, Mafhum-al-Quran.
- The Holy Qur'an (2005), by Allamah Nooruddin, is an English rendition of Allamah's Urdu translation by two of Allamah's modern-day disciples, Amatul Rahman Omar and Abdul Mannan.
- The Meaning of the Noble Qur'an (with Explanatory Notes) (2007) is a translation by Justice Maulana Muhammad Taqi Usmani. It is published by Maktaba-e-Darul Uloom, Karachi, Pakistan. It is not clear whether this translation is a direct Arabic to English translation by Dr. Taqi or whether this is a reproduction of an Urdu to English translation undertaken by Dr. Taqi as part of his English translation of the popular Urdu commentary Ma'ariful Qur'an originally by Mufti Muhammad Shafi (1897–1976).
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