List of translations of the Quran

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This is a list of translations of the Quran.

Historical (up to the 21st century)

7th–10th centuries

This is inferred from two references: "... an anonymous early 9th century Kashmiri Hindu king ..." wrote a letter to Amir Abdullah bin Umar bin Abdul Aziz of Mansura, requesting him to dispatch a scholar to his court who could explain the tenets of the Islamic shariah in the language "al-Hindia". The 9th-century Persian traveller Buzurg bin Shahryar mentions in his travelogue, Ajaib-ul Hind [The Wonders of India], that the Hindu king of Mehroke in Kashmir had commissioned the preparation of a Kashmiri translation of the Quran.

10th century

11th century

12th century

Punjabi- Quran was translated into Punjabi by Sufis of Punjab in Shah Mukhi Script for ease of understanding for the local population (Punjabis). Same sufis had earlier created "Shah Mukhi" script by combining Arabic and Persian alphabets

13th century

16th century

17th century

18th century

19th century

20th century

later translated into various other languages including English.

21st century

By writer and language

Adyghe

Acehnese

Afrikaans

Albanian

Armenian

Assamese

Azerbaijani

Balochi

Belarusian

Bengali

2023: Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib, Tarjamatul Quran. A full Bangla translation of the noble Quran with short exegesis.

Bosnian

Burushaski

The government of Pakistan had conferred on him Sitara-e-Imtiaz, one of the state’s highest civilian awards. His work has also been translated into several languages, including English, Persian, Arabic, Turkish, French Etc. Allama Nasir, as he was popularly known, had also served as a soldier in the Gilgit Scout. Although never schooled formally, the University of Montreal, Canada, had conferred on him an honorary degree of doctorate, in acknowledgement of his work. He is the co-author of a German-Burushaski dictionary published by Heidelberg University, Germany and “Hunza Proverbs” published by the Calgary University of Canada. Breathed his last today in Austin, USA. He had recently celebrated his centennial birthday.his contribution books, booklets and papers on spirituality, Islam, the Holy Quran, religion, spiritual sciences and other topics.

Buginese

Bulgarian

Catalan

Chinese

Czech

Danish

Dari

Dogri

India

Pakistan

Dutch

(in chronological order of publication)

English

(In chronological order of publication)

Esperanto

Estonian

Finnish

French

Georgian

German

Gojri

Gorontalo

Greek

Gujarati

Hebrew

(ISBN 978-9-38658-938-5)

Hindi

Hungarian

Icelandic

Indonesian/Malay

Italian

Japanese

There are at least seven complete translations of Qur'an:

Javanese

Kannada

Kashmiri

Kazakh

Kurdish

Central Kurdish

Northern Kurdish

Khowar/Chitrali

Korean

Latin

Macedonian

Madura

Malayalam

Maldivian

Mandar

Mande

Manipuri

Norwegian

Pahari

Pakistan

Pashto

There are numerous translations of the Qur'an in Pashto. Some of the most famous are listed below:

Persian

There are more than 60 complete translations of Qur'an in Persian and many partial translations. In the past some Tafsirs which had included Qur'an were translated like translation of Tafsir al-Tabari in 10 CE.

Polish

Portuguese

Punjabi

. Gurmukhi script . Shahmukhi script

Romanian

Romani

Russian

Sanskrit

Saraiki

There are more than twenty translations of Quran in Saraiki.

Serbian

Sindhi

Sinhala

Al Asheik Salsabil, Al Hafiz Al Alim M.S.M Yunus, H.M.M Saleem Jem, Ajmal Rafeek, 2019. (ISBN 978-9-38658-916-3)

Spanish

Sundanese

Swahili

At least 7 complete translations in Swahili have appeared and dozens of partial translations.

Swedish

Tamil

Tatar

Telugu

Thai

Turkish

Over fifty translations of the Koran have appeared in Turkish. Although it has been claimed that the Koran was first translated into Turkish on the instructions of Kemal Atatürk, other sources claim that Turkish translations have existed since the beginning of the Muslim era

Tajik

Ukrainian

Urdu

Following translations are known to exist, but need more information, such as publisher, title, year of publication etc.

Uyghur

Yiddish

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