Elsaid M. Badawi, (1929-2014). Educated at al-Azhar and London
Universities, Badawi was Professor of Arabic Studies and
Linguistics at the American University in Cairo, editor for the
Journal of Qurʾanic Studies, and has broadcast a complete
commentary on the Qurʾān in the Gulf and S.E. Asia. His
publications include Modern Written Arabic(2004) with M.G. Carter
and Adrian Gully, and A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic (1986) with
M. Hinds.
Muhammad Abdel Haleem, Professor of Islamic Studies, University of
London. Educated at al-Azhar, Cairo and Cambridge Universities.
Abdel Haleem is currently Director of the Centre of Islamic
Studies, and Chief Editor of the Journal of Qurʾanic Studies. His
publications include: Understanding the Qurʾān: Themes and Style
(2001), and The Qurʾān: a New Translation (2004).
"As a treasure trove of etymological, grammatical, phonological,
theological, and historical information relating to the Qur'an, it
surpasses the heretofore standard, J. Penrice's Dictionary and
Glossary of the Koran (1873)". Essential. Choice, July 2008
World Prize for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of
Iran, 2010
“…this monumental effort has filled an important intellectual
lacuna in the discourse on the Qurʾān, as it provides a detailed
exploration of the idioms and usage of the Scripture with a
remarkable exhibition of an archaeologist’s obsession with details
and finesse.”
Amidu Olalekan Sanni in Die Welt des Islams 52 (2012), pp. 207-208
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