Presentation of Prof Abdur Raheem Kidwai at International Qur'an Translators Conference 2023 | IQRA'

Abdur Raheem Kidwai is former Professor of English and
Director of the UGC Human Resource Development
Centre; and Director of the K.A. Nizami Quranic Centre,
Aligarh Muslim University, He is also a Aligarh, India. He
is also the former Visiting Fellow at the School of English,
University of Leicester, Teicester, UK. He has a
special interest in the English translations of the Quran.
The Ministry of Religious Affairs, Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia, commissioned him to write this substantial work
on the subject:
The Bibliography of the English Translations of the
Quran: 1649-2002: A Critical Study (2007). Moreover, his
other significant
works on the subject are Translating the Untranslatable: A
Critical Guide to 60 English Translations of the Quran
(2011) and God's
Word, Man's Interpretations: A Critical Study of the 21st
Century English Translations of the Quran (2018) offer
analytical reviews on all the complete English translations.
His other works on Islam and the Quran are:
The Quran: Essential Teachings (2006), 365 Sayings of
Prophet Muhammad (2014), Daily Wisdom (2013-17) (A
series of three
books presenting selections from the Quran, Hadith and
prayers) and Image of the Prophet Muhammad in English
Literature (2018). Prof. Kidwai has previously published
six other books with Viva:
Literary Orientalism: A Companion (2013), Perspectives
on National Integration (2013), New Directions in Higher
Education (2014), Orientalism in English Literature:
Perception of Islam and Muslims (2016), Believing and
Belonging (2016) and Criticism and Counter Criticism
(2017).
His reviews on the books on Islam, especially the Quran
have appeared in such reputed journals as The Muslim
World Book Review, Leicester, UK; Oxford Journal of
Islamic Studies, UK; Islamic Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan;
The Journal of Quranic Studies, Madina, Saudi Arabia;
Insights, Islamabad, Pakistan; Aligarh Journal of Quranic
Studies, etc. He has also delivered lectures on the English
translations of the Quran at the Universities of Oxford,
Birmingham, UK and Mauritius. 
His English translation of the Quran, What is the Quran
was published first in 2013 and its 4 editions have so far
come out.

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