Towards Understanding the Quran (Tafhim al Quran) Abridged

This modern and readable translation is a fresh English rendering of Sayyid Abul A'la Mawdudi's monumental Urdu translation of the Qur'an and a selection of his commentary. Here is a work with a difference by a scholar of an entirely different sort. An immense understanding of the Qur'an is offered here, a vast treasure of knowledge and deep insight and a valuable exposition of some social, political, economic, and legal teachings of the Qur'an. But what makes this work unique is that it presents the Qur'an as a book to be lived by.

This book contains thousands of notes, an introduction and a comprehensive index. Despite being an Abridged version it endeavours to answer many contemporary questions and makes the Qur'an fully relevant to the concerns of our day, yet it loses nothing of its timelessness nor sacrifices any of the traditional understanding. It demonstrates the unity and coherence of the Qur'an by centring everything on its message like pearls hung upon a single thread. A Glossary, biographical notes and general and subject indexes add to the understanding of the Quran. 

About the commentator and translator

Abul A'la Mawdudi (1903-1979) was a leading Muslim intellectual and a chief architect of the Islamic revival in the twentieth century. In 1941 he founded Jama'at-i-Islami, a political party in Pakistan, which he led until 1972. He authored more than a hundred works on Islam, both popular and scholarly, and his writings have been translated into some forty languages. 

Zafar Ishaq Ansari (b.1932) is the Director General of the Islamic Research Institute of the International Islamic University, Islamabad.

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