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Hello,

 

I am thinking about purchasing Accordance but have not for one reason, the lack of Islamic texts. I am someone who reads both the Bible and the Quran on frequent basis, and not being able to read both nor compare the two is a game changer. I would be willing to invest heavily in this product if there was at least some scholarly Islamic resources. 

 

 

Does this company believe that investing in this area would not return a profit?

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The Meaning of the Glorious Quran

An Explanatory Translation by Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall
London, 1930
 
Is available as a user module on the Accordance Exchange.
 
-Dan
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Here's the link to the appropriate page.  It's near the bottom.  If you do a search for pickthall it comes up.

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From a biblical Herbew perspective, it would be great to have digital access to the Quran, pre-Quranic materials, and Arabic lexica like Lane's massive multi-volume work. Many linguists, myself included, would make good use of such resources.

 

#4,376 for your to-do list.

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I completely agree with Daniel. It certainly would be an asset to have a grammatically tagged Qur'an for these kind of comparative analyses. One drawback, though, is that there does not exist (to my knowledge at least) a critical edition of the entire text with variant readings on par with Novum Testamentum Graece or Biblia Hebraica etc, so by going with the standard Qur'an, you would only have one fixed aspect of the text and its language at your disposal. It's not a bad place to start, however. Nevertheless, a good friend of mine who is an expert in the field told me of one such project currently being undertaken in Germany (named Corpus Coranicum, I believe), but who knows when they'll be finished. We're talking at least 10-20 years of hard work here: Biblia Hebraica Quinta is taking forever, too, and with good reason.

 

But there are scholarly editions available on pre-Islamic inscriptions and the like, at least, so that is less problematic. As for the multi-volume Lane, I use the online edition when needed, but it would make a great tool for Accordance, too. On that note, Arne Ambros also made an excellent and shorter dictionary only for Qur'anic Arabic which I use a lot for quick references.

 

With kind regards

 

Peter Christensen

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Oh, you're quite welcome. Sorry for not putting up the link, by the way - glad you found it!

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From a biblical Herbew perspective, it would be great to have digital access to the Quran, pre-Quranic materials, and Arabic lexica like Lane's massive multi-volume work. Many linguists, myself included, would make good use of such resources.

 

#4,376 for your to-do list.

 

Add my name to those who would make use of Quranic and pre-Quranic Arabic texts, as well as Arabic study tools, such as lexica.

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  • 2 months later...

Logos came out with a collection called The Perseus Arabic Collection that is a whopping 37 volumes. It has Lane's Lexicon, a shorter less well know Lexicon, two English translations of the Quran and an Arabic Quran... all for free. They also have an amazing Islamics collection but it's a little pricy (but worth it). 

 

I would love to see Accordance offer it but again... time and resources and I don't think there are many of us that want this resource!

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And my understanding is Perseus is free to develop on the basis it is free. So Accordance would only be able to do it if they were willing to give it away. At least we had been told Logos was allowed to develop it on the stipulation it had to be free.

 

-Dan

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