Abul-Fazl's translation spurred a succession of such translations...

Abul-Fazl's translation spurred a succession of such translations: twelve in six decades (one translation every five years). These translators, chronologically arranged, with the year of their works' publication enclosed in parentheses, are as follows: Muhammad Ali (1917), Ghulam Sarwar (1929), Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall (1930), Abdullah Yousuf Ali (1934), Richard Bell (1937), A.J. Arberry (1955), Sher Ali (1955), N.J.