Title:

Koran: Zakonodatel'naia kniga mokhammedanskogo veroucheniia

Short title

Koran

Title variations

Title in English

Koran: The Law book of Mohammedan Creed

Section

Language

Russian

Creation date

1877

Genre

Translation of the Qur’an

Content

Translation

Content table

Formal Expression

Prose

Qur'an quotations

Yes

Original

Yes

Source

Use (macro-category)

Polemical

Use (micro-category)

Polemics against Islam

Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Sablukov's translation (1877, the year on the book cover 1878) is considered to be the first published rendering of the Qur'an into Russian made directly from the Arabic source text. This translation offered greater accuracy and fluidity than the earlier works.

Entry author

Gulnaz Sibgatullina