The Noble Quran (Deluxe Edition)

The Noble Quran (Deluxe Edition)

This is a beautiful, deluxe edition of Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani’s English translation of the Holy Quran, praised for its accuracy and attention to detail.

The hardback deluxe edition is elegantly bound in thermo-leather with gold-blocking and foil embellishments. An Arabic medallion al-Qur’an al-Karim is laser engraved on the side of the cover. This edition is printed on the finest 92gsm Japanese Speciart paper.

Special illuminated medallions have been placed in the margins to designate the start of a new sūrah or new part (juz). Each page of the Qur’an is decorated with Pantone gold borders around the Arabic text.

The clear and beautifully typeset text of the Qur’an is based on the Madinan mushaf while retaining the useful features of the Indian subcontinent copy. The Arabic text is presented at the top of each page, accompanied by Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani’s renowned English translation and notes below it.

The elegant illuminated calligraphy found on the opening spread of the Fātiḥah and Baqarah are a facsimile of the Tipu Sultan (1441–1442/845) mushaf. This was a copy originally produced for Sultan Abu Shuja’ ad-Din Bahadur Khan, the ruler of the Transoxiana region at the time, and now housed at the University of St Andrews’ Library in Scotland. The Qur’anic text is concluded with a beautiful and meaningful supplication to be read upon completion, also taken from the Tipu Sultan mushaf. An English transliteration and translation of the supplication is included. A detailed twenty-two-page index is appended at the end.