Dictionary of the Holy Quran (English and Arabic Edition) Review

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Dictionary of the Holy Quran (English and Arabic Edition) ReviewThis dictionary is indeed easy to use. It is well and clearly organised. However, I found the actual content rather disappointing as the semantic and etymological information it provides is very basic. After giving (without quoting any sources) the enormous (and somehow disconcerting) semantic field of a root, it proceeds to give a contextual tranlation (or paraphrase) of a word in each of its qur'anic contexts, with Muslim exegtical overtone. In other words, a mainstream Muslim translation of the Qur'an offers the same results with less hassle. For example, al-naffaathaat fii al-'uqad (verse 113:4) is explained as follows: "are those human beings (men and women) who try and whisper evil suggestions to deter people from doing their duty and regulating and ordering their affairs", which sounds more like a later theological understanding of this qur'anic expression, than a real linguistic, etymologcal, and anthropoligcal explanation. (At the "nafatha" entry, the author feels he has to add: "Zamakhshari categorically rejects a belief in the reality and effect of such practices, as well as the concept of magic as such").
Useful to readers who might be reassured by the strong theological overtones, not so useful to readers who would like to know more and understand possible qur'anic connotations which have been ignored or supressed by the classical orthodox exegesis.
Dictionary of the Holy Quran (English and Arabic Edition) OverviewThis is the 3rd edition of this valuable historical work ever published.

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