How many of you have READ the Koran?

[DuctapeFatwa]

All the way through, in any language, for any reason, whether religious, academic, or literary.

[SmileyBoy]

1. I have. (I'm Muslim, BTW)

But I'm too pissed at the Vikings to talk about it right now.:-)

[Keebs]

2. re:re:

I've never read it, but I plan on reading it one day. Education is important to me. *nods*

[Darranar]

3. Never.

[Kamika]

4. I have

personal curiosity fyi

[THUNDER HANDS]

5. nope

[Maple]

6. Yes

English translation.

Yes, Book of Mormon, etc etc...just to save time.

[Ani Yun Wiya]

7. I have.

On two occaisions, 35 years ago and last year.
I found it to be filled with wise counsel and much wisdom.

[jody]

8. I've read an English translation. I know that one has not really read

the Koran unless it was in Arabic.

[lizerdbits]

9. I plan to

I bought an english translation and the translator wrote in the foreward that he translated it literally and thus it might lose some meaning. I guess that goes for bible too.

[mitchum]

10. yes

[Astarho]

11. Parts of it

in English out of curiosity.

[SOteric]

12. Yep. Me. I have.

:hi:

[hlthe2b]

13. I have read some of it in English. I have an Arabic/English version...

given to all attendees of a Saudi Arabian Cancer Conference by one of the Saudi Princes (I was teaching in a joint US/Saudi program at the time). I know just enough written Arabic to totally misinterpret it, so I've stuck with english. What I can say is the fundies (like Christian fundies with the bible) have read into it, what they want it to say, and not what is actually there. Something else we have in common with our Muslim brethren.

[Padraig18]

14. I have.

I read it last year, for my Comparative Religion class. :hi:

[DuctapeFatwa]

15. kick for the west coast

just to see..

[Spider Jerusalem]

16. Yes, as part of my studies in comparative religion...

want to get a better translation, though. The one I have is not that highly regarded.

[Aidoneus]

17. about 70 surah of the Koran itself

some of Sahih Bukhari's collected hadiths, a bit of Sunan Abu Dawud's collection.. more into Islamic history than the faith itself, paradoxical as that may sound.

[WindRavenX]

18. Yes, in English

Even in the best translation, the poet beauty is lost.
However, there are some very wise things said in the Koran. Sadly, I also see how easily it is to selectively pick quotes from the Koran to justify terrorism; but when you read it as a whole, you realize nothing could be further from the truth...

[jhfenton]

19. Yes, in both English and Arabic. (eom)

[regnaD kciN]

20. In English...

...by a translator with the classic name of "Mohammad Marmaduke Pickthall." Mainly notable in that he seemed to be trying to make it sound like the King James version of the Bible -- very Elizabethan.

[DuctapeFatwa]

21. LOL verily Mr. Pickthall doth pray that he be delivered from this age,

and lo, made to lie down in the pastures of righteousness, where even the words of the page neither toil nor spin, yet are clothed in purple, and wheresoever thou seest a verb, that it be set foursquare in the tenses that James knew, until such time as he was no longer King, having perished.

[hel]

22. It's boring

I read Koran many times, both in Turkish and Arabic (not understanding a word of it), and I *hate* it. (My family -and my nation- is Muslim)

But then again, I have the same feelings for any kind of religion.