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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Qur'an and Its Translators Chapter 4 Supplement 1 The following list, mostly of complete translations of the Qur'an, published in about 65 languages of the world is based mainly on the IRCICA bibliography, which lists editions that appeared until 1980 (for languages that do not have a complete translation of the Qur'an, the partial works have been mentioned).

Here only the earliest and the last editions given by the sources, separated by a (), have been mentioned for works with numerous editions. The number of other editions is given at the end of every entry in flower brackets. For Urdu, and to a lesser extent for Persian and Turkish, the lists can only be tentative due to lack of information about the exact nature of 'anonymous' works. The list of complete translations in Urdu is based on the bibliography of Urdu translations compiled by Dr.

Ahmad Khan. To give only tentative and approximate figures, the largest number of works, pertains to Urdu (171, including the anonymous translations), followed by Persian (57), Turkish (50), English (41), Bengali (33), German (22), Indonesian, Malay and Javenese (together 19), French (17), Panjabi (14), Sindhi and Spanish (both 13), and Pashto (11). Works not mentioned in either of the bibliographies are cited here with an asterisk on the serial number.

The Urdu works mentioned in the 1RClCA bibliography but not by Ahmad Khan, for some unknown reason, have been cited here with a (?) following the serial number. Common titles have been deleted for reasons of space. 1. Afrikaans: Ismail Abdurrazaak & Shaikh Salih Din, 3 vol. [n.p.] 1960. Muhammad Ahmad Baker, Kaapslad 1961, p. xliv+464. 2. Albanian: H. Sherif Ahmeti, New York, 1992, p. 204. 3. Amharic: [The Koran in Amharic] p. 450. [Anonym] Adis Ababa: Artistic Printing Press Ltd. 1981, p. 457.

Bengali: 'Abbas 'Ali, Mawlana, Calcutta 1909, p. 976 5th ed. [n.p.J Muhammad Naqib alp-Din Khan 1939.