Towards Understanding the Qur'an: English Translation

Towards Understanding the Qur'an: Abridged Tafhimal-Qur'an, HB

Towards Understanding the Quran – Abridged version is a fresh English rendering of Tafheem ul Quran by Syed Maudoodi. Here is a work with a difference, by a scholar of an entirely different sort. An immense wealth of profound understanding of the Quran is here, a vast treasure of knowledge and deep insight, and a valuable exposition of some social, political, economic, and legal teachings of the Quran.

About the Author

Syed Abul Ala Maudoodi (1903-1979) was a leading Muslim intellectual and a chief architect of the Islamic revival in the twentieth century. In 1941 he founded Jama'at-i-Islami, a political party in Pakistan, which he led until 1972. He authored more than a hundred works on Islam, both popular and scholarly, and his writings have been translated into some forty languages.