Alexander Ross and the first English translation of the Qur an

The Muslim World | January 1, 1998| | Copyright

In the 1630s and 1640s, Abraham Wheelock, the first Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University, began working on an Arabic edition of the Quran. Although he never completed his project, Wheelock attested to the wide-ranging interest in the Quran and in Arabic and oriental studies in the England of the first half of the seventeenth century.1 Indeed, there was such an interest in the Quran that in 1648, Samuel Hartlib, one of the leading intellectuals of the period, recorded in his Ephemerides how two brothers, a grocer and a stationer, were planning to "cause all the Alcoran to bee graven and ...

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