Michael Everson wrote:

>At 07:09 -0400 2004-07-30, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
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>> > "and most notably the recent first full translation of the Quran
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>>> into Berber, published 2003, a powerful influence in itself."
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>>Then the publicist, at least, is not an orthodox Muslim.
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>This is going to go rapidly off topic.
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It is.

>I have a bilingual Qur'an, with the Arabic text on one side and the
>Mandenkan text in N'Ko script on the other.
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>It is a lovely edition, produced I am sure with care and reverence.
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It's a matter of terminology, I understand. A text written in anything
but Arabic cannot, by definition, be "the Qur'an." It can be an
expression of the *meaning* of the Qur'an, but it isn't the actual
thing. So I have translations, usually titled things like "The Meaning
of the Glorious Qur'an." It's just a fine point of word-choice.

~mark