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'The Sublime Quran' by Dr Laleh Bakhtiar is the first English translation/interpretation of the Qur'an by an American woman. Dr Laleh joins Everywoman from Chicago and is joined by Dr Omima Abou-Bakr, a professor from the University of Qatar who disagrees with Dr Laleh's translation.

In this work, the author challenges the common mistranslation of the word َاضْرِبُوهُن 'idribuhunna' in verse (Q. 4:34) that feminists say have been used to justify the abuse of women. Dr Bakhtiar reverts “to beat” back to its original interpretation meaning “to go away”.


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Southern New Hampshire University just began its second foray into teaching Arabic through its continuing education department. SNHU graduate and Morocco native Imane Naji Amrani teaches the 16-week course that lasts until March 3. She will introduce students to modern standard Arabic and will focus on basic language skills, along with simple conversations and awareness of the Arabic culture and traditions.

Some of Naji Amrani’s students took a previous 8-week course offered a year ago with a different instructor, but SNHU hopes the longer format will offer more in-depth study. One student has business associates in Morocco; another just got back from Iraq and still has friends there. Naji Amrani held the first class on Oct. 31, also her first day teaching English as a Second Language. She has the help of Said Alabri, a graduate assistant from Oman.

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Al-Quran Explorer is a digital reference for Al-Quran and it contains Al-Quran text, translations and tafsir. You could easily refer for a verse, or make a search over its translation and tafsir. The software aims to help professional Muslim user such as lawyers, Muslim/Syariah judges, journalist, columnist, editors, book authors, lecturers, religious researchers and students to work with Quran easier than ever.

The application contains hierarchal view of all verses in Quran, either sorted by Surah (chapters), Juzu' (parts) or Editable Maudhu' (Subject). This software also equipped with advanced search tool, advanced multiple verse lookup.

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One night in Baghdad, the 9th century Caliph Al-Mamun was visited by a dream. The philosopher Aristotle appeared to him, saying that the reason of the Greeks and the revelation of Islam were not opposed. On waking, the Caliph demanded that all of Aristotle’s works be translated into Arabic, and they were.

Over the next 200 years (about 800 A.D. to 1150 A.D.) major works in philosophy, medicine, engineering and mathematics in Greek, Syriac, Sanskrit, Pahlavi and other languages were translated into Arabic. This endeavour became known as the 'translation movement'.

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