Ali Quli Qarai Quran Pdf Apr 2026

In the description, he wrote: "For those who want the Quran as architecture, not just poetry. Each verse is a brick. See how they fit."

It was an English translation of the Quran Reza had never seen before. The title page read: The Qur’an: With a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation — by Ali Quli Qarai. ali quli qarai quran pdf

Reza learned that Qarai, an Iranian scholar educated in Qom, had spent over a decade on this work in the 1990s. He rejected the common "dynamic equivalence" (thought-for-thought) for "formal equivalence" (word-for-word). The result was a translation that felt strange at first — almost literal — but then, dazzlingly clear. In the description, he wrote: "For those who