Hashim Amir-Ali 1974

A table of contents

Reference pages

Contents

Table of Contents

Appendices

Preamble

1. What is the Qur’an

2. The Bible Today

3. The Qur’an Today

Prologue

Prologue

Book One

The Portal

Sura: Fatihah

Interlude One

Book Two

The Enlightenment

Sura: ‘Alaq

Sura: Qadr

Sura: Zilzāl

Sura: ‘Ādiyāt

Sura: Qāri‘ah

Sura: Tākathur

Sura: ‘Aṣr

Sura: Humaza

Sura: Fīl

Sura: Shitā’

Sura: Ma‘ūn

Sura: Kauthar

Sura: Kāfirūn

Sura: Naṣr

Sura: Lahb

Sura: Tawḥīd

Sura: Falaq

Sura: Nās

Interlude Two

Book Three

The Guidance

Sura: Tīn

Sura: Sharḥ

Sura: Ḍuḥā

Sura: Lail

Sura: Shams

Sura: Balad

Sura: Fajr

Sura: Ghashiyā

Sura: A‘lā

Sura: Ṭāriq

Sura: Burūj

Sura: Inshiqāq

Sura: Taṭfīf

Sura: Infitar

Sura: Takwīr

Sura: ‘Abasa

Sura: Nāzi‘āt

Sura: Nabā’

Sura: Mursilāt

Sura: Insān

Sura: Qiymāmah

Sura: Muddaththir

Sura: Muzzammil

Sura: Jinn

Sura: Nūḥ

Sura: Ma‘ārij

Sura: Hāqqa

Sura: Qalam

Sura: Mulk

Sura: Qāf

Sura: Dhāriyāt

Sura: Ṭūr

Sura: Najm

Sura: Qamar

Sura: Raḥmān

Sura: Wāqi‘ah

Interlude Three

Book Four

The Book

Sura: Furqān

Sura: Shu‘arā

Sura: Namal

Sura: Qaṣaṣ

Sura: ‘Ankabūt

Sura: Rūm

Sura: Luqmān

Sura: Sajda

Sura: Sabā

Sura: Fāṭir

Sura: Yā Sin

Sura: Ṣaffāt

Sura: Ṣād

Sura: Zumar

Sura: Mu‘min

Sura: Fuṣṣilat

Sura: Shūrā

Sura: Zukhruf

Sura: Duhkhkān

Sura: Jāthia

Sura: Aḥqāf

Sura: Yūnus

Sura: Hūd

Sura: Yūsuf

Sura: Ra‘d

Sura: Ibrāhim

Sura: Ḥijr

Sura: Naḥl

Sura: Bani Isrā’il

Sura: Kahf

Sura: Maryam

Sura: Ṭā Hā

Sura: Anbiyā

Sura: Mu’minūn

Sura: An‘ām

Sura: A‘rāf

Interlude Four

Book Five

The Balance

Sura: Al-Fatihah

Sura: Baqarah

Sura: Āli-Imrān

Sura: Nisā

Sura: Mā’ida

Sura: Byyanah

Sura: Ḥadīd

Sura: Mujādila

Sura: Ḥashr

Sura: Mumtaḥinna

Sura: Ṣaff

Sura: Jum‘ah

Sura: Munāfiqūn

Sura: Taghābun

Sura: Ṭalāq

Sura: Tahrim

Sura: Muḥammad

Sura: Fatḥah

Sura: Ḥujarāt

Sura: Nūr

Sura: Aḥzāb

Sura: Ḥajj

Sura: Anfāl

Sura: Barāt

Epilogue

Epilogue

The First Three Centuries of Islam

Appendices

Appendix A 1: Perspective Placement of Suras

Appendix A 2: Consensus of Authorities on Chronological Sequence

Appendix A 3: Alphabetical Index of Suras in the Message of the Qur’ān

Appendix A 4: Tradition to Perspective Sequence Numbers

Appendix A 5: Perspective to Traditional Sequence Numbers

Appendix B 1: The Mysterious Letters of the Qur’an

Appendix B 2: List of 29 Suras with Letter Openings

Appendix C 1: Note on the word NASI

Appendix C 2: Renderings of the NASI verses (Barat: 36-37) in Persian

Appendix D: The Meanings of the word Hamd

Appendix E: Alphabetical List of Proper Names found in the Qur’an and the Bible

Appendix F: Facsimile title and two pages from the earliest translation of the Qur’an into English

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements