The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation (Arabic Text Edition - Student Notes) is for students of the Qur'an in Arabic.
It replicates the column containing the Arabic text found in The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation (Reference Edition - Parallel Text). The column containing the Translation is removed to provide space for student notes.
The line-numbering system mirrors The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation (Reference Edition) and harmonises with the notes it contains.
The Background and Reference sections from the Reference Edition are included here to give the reader some understanding of the processes which inform the broader project.
The extensive supporting evidence and information found in the Reference Edition may be purchased as a separate book - Notes, Commentary & Appendix to The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation - available in both hardback and paperback.
The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation (Arabic Text Edition - Student Notes) features:
- The Arabic Qur'an in column text with each second column left blank for notes
- Logical numbering conventions designed to expedite navigation across content
Sam Gerrans
Sam Gerrans is an English writer and activist with professional backgrounds in media, strategic communications, and technologies. He is driven by commitment to ultimate meaning, and focused on authentic approaches to revelation and Realpolitik. He is founder of Quranite.com and author of The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation where his consistent, Qur'an-centric hermeneutical methodology is applied to the text of the Qur'an in its entirety. His principle interests are: - The meaning and application of languages - Strategies for authenticity and independence from conformist and authoritarian cults - Objective virtue and meaning within solipsistic and degrading mass culture - The Qur'an as the gateway to individual odyssey and freedom from tyranny After some 15 years studying Classical Arabic, reading the Qur'an and considering its contents, he decided to make a contribution based on his findings. The result is The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation - a non-sectarian translation of the Qur'an into English (free for downloaded at quranite.com). His hermeneutic method marshals reason, historical evidence, pan-textual definitions and semantic consistency to achieve a highly methodical presentation in English of the Arabic text, one unencumbered by the outcomes and dogmas which the religion of Islam assumes. The process reveals the religion of Islam as a political construct post-dating Muhammad; one neither intrinsic to his revelation nor compatible with it. His theology and worldview are predicated on the following: - That the Qur'an is from God, complete and protected (as the Qur'an itself claims to be) - That Traditionalist Islam is not only not native to the Qur'an, it is in obvious contradiction to both its tenor and stated objectives - That the Qur'an holds within it clear keys to its own interpretation in the form of embedded definitions which, when applied across the totality of the text, provide results which make consistent and illuminating sense
Sam Gerrans
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