Publisher's Synopsis
This third edition of the Koran provides the following advantages: - It reproduces the Arabic version of the Koran in chronological order according to the Azhar. - It gives the Koufi, Modern, Koranic orthographies with, for the first time in history, the modern punctuations. - It refers to the canonical and apocryphal Jewish, Christian and other sources of the Koran. - It indicates the causes of the revelation, the most important variations of the Koran, the abrogated verses and those which abrogate them. - It mentions the meaning of the difficult words and insists on the linguistic and stylistic mistakes of the Koran. Author: Sami Awad ALDEEB ABU-SAHLIEH Christian of Palestinian origin. Swiss citizen. Graduate and Doctor in law (Fribourg). Graduated in political sciences (Geneva). Habilitated to direct researches (HDR, Bordeaux 3). Professor of universities (CNU-France). Responsible for Arab and Islamic Law at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (1980-2009). Visiting professor in different French, Italian and Swiss universities. Director of the Centre of Arab and Islamic Law. Author of many books and of a translation of the Koran in French, English and Italian. See his website: www.sami-aldeeb.com.
