Ahmadiyya translations of the Quran

Some of the many Quran translations by Ahmadi translators at the 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has translated the Quran into over 70 languages of the world.^[1] Portions of the scripture have been translated into multiple other languages. The Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement has produced translations into at least 7 languages. The period of the late 1980s and the early 1990s saw an acceleration in the number of translations being produced by Ahmadi Muslims.

Some of the earliest translations were produces by Ahmadi Muslim scholars and today there are still many languages for which only translations authored by Ahmadi Muslims exist.

Publications

The translations of the Quran authored by Ahmadi Muslim scholars always feature translated verses alongside the original Arabic text. Before the translations are published, they are checked, scrutinized and proof-read by a wide array of individuals for errors. A similar procedure is undertaken when revised versions of the translations are produced. In particular, guidance is sought from the caliph of the Community with regards to textual and other linguistic difficulties. Since the majority of the Quran translations have been made available from the 1980s, most translations have sought advice from Caliph IV and Caliph V.

List of complete translations

The translations of the Quran by Ahmadi Muslims have been listed below. The list has been divided by regions of the world. The translations produced by the main Ahmadiyya Muslim Community have been numbered, excluding multiple translations into the same language. Translations produced by members of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement have been starred (*) in place of numbering for the purpose of identification.

African languages

No.	Title	Language	Primary location of language	Year published	Translator(s)	Notes/External links
1	Kur'aan Kronkron No: Arabek Atwerεnsεm ne Asante Nkyerεaseε[2][3]	Ashanti	Southern Ghana	2008	Yusuf Ahmad Edusei	PDF version
2	[3]	Fula	West Africa	2007
3	[3]	Hausa	West Africa	1992
4	[3]	Igbo	Nigeria	1990
5	[3]	Jula	Burkina Faso; Ivory Coast; Mali	2002
6	Kũrani Theru[3][4]	Kikuyu	Kenya	1988		PDF version
7	Kulani Ntheu - Maandiko ma Kialavu na ualyulo lwa Kikamba[3][5]	Kikamba	Kenya	2002	Namaan Nthenge Lukindo	PDF version
8	[3]	Kiriol	Guinea Bissau	2010
9	Kur'āni Entukuvu mu Luganda[6][3]	Luganda	Buganda, Uganda	1984		PDF version
10	Ny Kor'any Masina - Amin'ny teny Arabo sy ny dikani amin'ny teny Malagasy[7][3]	Malagasy	Madagascar; Comoros; Mayotte	2008	Ramavonirina Oliva Rahantamalala; Razafimamony Georges Eugéne Fanja; Andriandahy Mahmoudou	PDF version
11	[3]	Mandinka	West Africa	2007
12	Le Saint Qur'ān: Texte Arabe avec traduction en créole[8][3]	Mauritian Creole	Mauritius	2004	Nazir Ahmad Hoolash; Saïda Sookia; Amina Yasmin Sooltangos	PDF version
13	[3]	Mende	South central Sierra Leone	1990
14	[3]	Mõõré	Burkina Faso, more generally West Africa	2006
15	[3]	Swahili	East Africa	1953		PDF version
16	[3]	Wolof	Senegal; Gambia; Mauritania	2007
17	[3]	Yoruba	Nigeria; Benin	1976

European languages

No.	Title	Language	Primary location of language	Year published	Translator(s)	Notes/External links
1	Kurani Karim:Arabist - shqib[9][3]	Albanian	Albania; Kosovo; Macedonia	1990	Muhammad Zakaria Khan	Online version PDF version
2	Kur'an Časni: Arapski texsti bosanskiprijevod[10][3]	Bosnian	Bosnia and Herzegovina; more generally the Balkans	2008	Fahrija Avdić; Wasim Ahmad	Online version
3	[3]	Bulgarian	Bulgaria; more generally the Balkans	1991
4	El Sagrat Alcorà: Amb text Àrab I traducció al Català[11][3]	Catalan	Catalonia, Spain; Andorra; Roussillon, France	2003		PDF version
5	Svatý Korán: Arabský text a Český překlad[12][3]	Czech	Czech Republic	1990	Šera Alího	PDF version
6	Koranen: med dansk oversaettelse[13][3]	Danish	Denmark	1967	A.S. Madsen	Online version PDF version
*	De Heilige Qoer-an	Dutch	Netherlands; Flanders, Belgium	1934	Muhammad Ali	PDF version
7	[3]	Dutch	-	1953
*	The Holy Quran	English	Australia; Canada; United Kingdom; United States; New Zealand; parts of Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia	1917	Muhammad Ali	PDF version
8	The Holy Quran - Arabic Text and English translation[14][3]	English	-	1955	Sher Ali	Online version PDF version
-		English	-	1971	Muhammad Zafarullah Khan
9	Le Saint Coran: Texte arabe et traduction français[15][3]	French	France; Quebec, Canada; parts of West Africa and Central Africa	1985		PDF version
*	Le Quran Sacre	French	-	1990		PDF version
10	Der Heilige Qur-ân: Arabisch und Deutsch[16][3]	German	Germany; Switzerland; more sparsely Central Europe	1954		Online version PDF version
*	Der Koran	German	-	1964	Sadr-ud-Din	PDF version
11	Το Ιερό Κοράνιο[17][3]	Greek	Greece	1989	Hamid Aziz Rehman	Online version
12	[3]	Italian	Italy; Switzerland	1986
13	Den Hellige Qur'ânen: Arabisk texst med Norsk oversettelse[18][3]	Norwegian	Norway	1996		PDF version
14	Swiety Koran: Tekst Arabskii tlumaczenie Polskie[19][3]	Polish	Poland	1990		Online version (including short commentary) PDF version
15	O Sogrado Al-Corão: Texto arabe e tradução portuguêsa[20][3]	Portuguese	Brazil; Portugal; more sparsely South America and Southern Africa	1988		Online version PDF version
16	Священный Коран: Арабский текст c русский переводm[21][3]	Russian	Russia; post-Soviet states; Israel	1987	Rustam Khamatvaleev; Ravil Bukharaev; Rana Khalid Ahmad	Online version PDF version
*	El Sagrado Quran	Spanish	Spain; most of South America; most of Central America; Equatorial Guinea; more sparsely Western Europe	1986		PDF version
17	El SAgrado Corán con texto en Árabe y traducción al Español[22][3]	Spanish	-	1988	Antonio Carrillo Robles	Online version (including short commentary) PDF version
18	Den Heliga Qur'anen: Arabisk Text med Svenska översättning[23][3]	Swedish	Sweden; parts of Finland	1988	Qanita Sadiqa	PDF version

Turko-Iranian languages

No.	Title	Language	Primary location of language	Year published	Translator(s)	Notes/External links
1	[3]	Kyrgyz	Kyrgyzstan;Afghanistan;Tajikistan; Xinjiang, China	2008
2	[3]	Pashto	Afghanistan; Pakistan	1990		PDF version
3	قرآن مجيد - ترجمه فارسی[24][3]	Persian	Iran; more generally regions of former Persian Empire	1989	Syed Aashiq Hussain Shah	Online version PDF version
4	Kur'an-i Kerim ve Türkçe meali[25][3]	Turkish	Turkey; more sparsely the Balkans	1990	Muhammed Celal Șems	Online version PDF version
5	[3]	Uzbek	Uzbekistan; Northern Afghanistan; Western Kyrgyzstan	2005

East Asian languages

No.	Title	Language	Primary location of language	Year published	Translator(s)	Notes/External links
1	聖クルアーン[26][3]	Japanese	Japan	1988	Muhammad Uwais Kobyashi	Online version PDF version
2	꾸란 - 한글번역본[27][3]	Korean	North Korea; South Korea	1988	Ahn Dong Hoon; Park Bang Hen; Sung Ha Chang	PDF version
3	古蘭經 - 阿文原文 中文讠圣来圣[28][3]	Chinese	China (excluding Inner Mongolia; Tibet and parts of East and South China)	1990	Muhammad Usman Chou	Online version

South Asian languages

No.	Title	Language	Primary location of language	Year published	Translator(s)	Notes/External links
1	[3]	Assamese	Assam, India	1990	Khan Bahadur Ataur Rahman Khan	PDF version
2	[3]	Bengali	Bangladesh; Eastern India	1990		Online version PDF version
3	[3]	Gujarati	Gujarat, India	1990		PDF version
4	कुरान मजीढ - के हिन्दी अनुवाद[29][3]	Hindi	India	1987		Online version
5	[3]	Kannada	Southern India	2004	Muhammad Yusuf	PDF version
6	[3]	Kashmiri	Kashmir Valley	1998		Online version PDF version
7	[3]	Malayalam	Kerala, India	1991
8	[3]	Manipuri	Manipur, India	1990	Ahmad Hasan	Online version PDF version
9	[3]	Marathi	Maharashtra and Goa, India	1992		Online version
10	[3]	Nepali	Nepal	2001		PDF version
11	[3]	Oriya	Odisha, India	1989	Abdul Qadir Khan; Mohammad Anwar-ul Haque	Online version PDF version
12	[3]	Punjabi (Gurmukhi)	Punjab, India	1983		Online version (including short commentary) PDF version
13	قرآن مجيد[30][3]	Saraiki	Bahawalpur South Punjab, Pakistan	1990		PDF version
14	قرآن مجيد[31][3]	Sindhi	Sindh, Pakistan; Kutch, India	1991	Abdul Qadir Dahri; Ghous Baksh Shaikh	PDF version
15	[3]	Tamil	Southern India	1989
16	[3]	Telugu	Southern India	1991		Online version
17	تفسیر صغیر (Tafseer-e-Sagheer)[32][3]	Urdu	Pakistan; parts of Northern India	1957	Caliph II	PDF version (includes Commentary)
-	قرآن کریم: اردو ترجمہ[33][3]	Urdu	-	2000	Caliph IV	PDF version
-	قرآن کریم: ترجمہ[34][3]	Urdu	-		Mir Ishaq	PDF version

Southeast Asian languages

No.	Title	Language	Primary location of language	Year published	Translator(s)	Notes/External links
1	[3]	Indonesian	Indonesia	1970
*	Qur'an Suci Terjemah & Tafsir Mukadimah	Indonesian	-	1979	Muhammad Ali	PDF version
*	Qur'an Suchi Jarwa Jawi	Javanese	Java, Indonesia	2001	Muhammad Ali	PDF version
2	[3]	Malay	Malaysia; Brunei; Singapore	1989
3	[3]	Sundanese	Java and Lampung, Indonesia	1998
4	[3]	Tagalog	Luzon, Philippines	1991
5	[3]	Thai	Thailand	2008
6	Thánh Thur Koran[35][3]	Vietnamese	Vietnam; Guangxi, China	1989		PDF version

Oceanic languages

No.	Title	Language	Primary location of language	Year published	Translator(s)	Notes/External links
1	[3]	Fijian	Fiji	1987
2	[36][3]	Māori	New Zealand	2010	Shakil Ahmad Monir
3	Kuran Tapu[37][3]	Tuvaluan	Tuvalu	1990	Sunema Makatui Rusia	PDF version (selected verses only)

Other languages

No.	Title	Language	Primary location of language	Year published	Translator(s)	Notes/External links
1	La Nobla Korano[3]	Esperanto	None	1970	Italo Chiussi	PDF version

Exegesis

Title	Title in English	Language	Year published	Author(s)	Translations	Notes/External links
	Commentary on the Holy Quran: Surah Al-Fateha	Urdu		Mirza Ghulam Ahmad	English by Muhammad Zafarullah Khan	Exegesis compiled from the writings of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, on the first chapter of the Quran. Only the first volume has bee translated in English. PDF (English)
حقائق الفرقان (Haqaiq al-furqan)	Inner Verities of the Discriminant	Urdu		Caliph I	None	4 volumes. Link
تفسير کبير(Tafseer-e-Kabeer)	The Extensive Commentary	Urdu		Caliph II	None	10 volumes. Exegesis on all chapters of the Quran excluding chapters 3 to 9.Link
تفسیر صغیر(Tafseer-e-Sagheer)	The Short Commentary	Urdu		Caliph II	None	PDF

See also

• List of translations of the Quran
• English translations of the Quran

References

1. "Peaceful message of Quran on show". Canberra, Australia: CityNews.com.au. Retrieved June 28, 2015.
2. Kur'aan Kronkron No: Arabek Atwerεnsεm ne Asante Nkyerεaseε (PDF). Islam International Publications.
3. "Published Translations of the Holy Quran by Ahmadiyya Muslim Community" (PDF). Retrieved June 5, 2015.
4. Kũrani Theru (PDF). Islam International Publications.
5. Kulani Ntheu - Maandiko ma Kialavu na ualyulo lwa Kikamba (PDF). Islam International Publications.
6. Kur'āni Entukuvu mu Luganda (PDF). Islam International Publications.
7. Ny Kor'any Masina - Amin'ny teny Arabo sy ny dikani amin'ny teny Malagasy (PDF). Islam International Publications.
8. [Le Saint Qur'ān: Texte Arabe avec traduction en créole https://www.alislam.org/quran/Holy-Quran-Creole.pdf] Check |url= value (help). Islam International Publications. External link in |title= (help)
9. Kurani Karim:Arabist - shqib (PDF). Islam International Publications.
10. Kur'an Časni: Arapski texsti bosanskiprijevod. Islam International Publications.
11. El Sagrat Alcorà: Amb text Àrab I traducció al Català (PDF). Islam International Publications.
12. Svatý Korán: Arabský text a Český překlad (PDF). Islam International Publications.
13. Koranen: med dansk oversaettelse (PDF). Islam International Publications.
14. The Holy Quran - Arabic Text and English translation (PDF). Islam International Publications.
15. Le Saint Coran: Texte arabe et traduction français (PDF). Islam International Publications.
16. Der Heilige Qur-ân: Arabisch und Deutsch (PDF). Islam International Publications.
17. Το Ιερό Κοράνιο. Islam International Publications.
18. Den Hellige Qur'ânen: Arabisk texst med Norsk oversettelse (PDF). Islam International Publications.
19. Swiety Koran: Tekst Arabskii tlumaczenie Polskie (PDF). Islam International Publications.
20. O Sogrado Al-Corão: Texto arabe e tradução portuguêsa (PDF). Islam International Publications.
21. Священный Коран: Арабский текст c русский переводm (PDF). Islam International Publications.
22. El SAgrado Corán con texto en Árabe y traducción al Español (PDF). Islam International Publications.
23. Den Heliga Qur'anen: Arabisk Text med Svenska översättning (PDF). Islam International Publications.
24. قرآن مجيد - ترجمه فارسی (PDF). Islam International Publications.
25. Kur'an-i Kerim ve Türkçe meali (PDF). Islam International Publications.
26. 聖クルアーン (PDF). Islam International Publications.
27. 꾸란 - 한글번역본 (PDF). Islam International Publications.
28. 古蘭經 - 阿文原文 中文讠圣来圣. Islam International Publications.
29. "कुरान मजीढ - के हिन्दी अनुवाद". Islam International Publications.
30. قرآن مجيد (PDF). Islam International Publications.
31. قرآن مجيد (PDF). Islam International Publications.
32. تفسیر صغیر (PDF). Islam International Publications.
33. قرآن کریم: اردو ترجمہ (PDF). Islam International Publications.
34. قرآن کریم: ترجمہ (PDF). Islam International Publications.
35. Thánh Thur Koran (PDF). Islam International Publications.
36. "First Maori Quran Published". November 3, 2013. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
37. Kuran Tapu (PDF). Islam International Publications.