The Qur'an: A New Translation
The standard scholarly English Qur'an, by a Muslim scholar of Arabic — the text in which shukr, gratitude owed to God, runs as a persistent theme, most famously in the promise of 14:7: "If you are thankful, I will give you more." Goodreads 4.49.
Abdel Haleem’s Oxford World’s Classics translation (2004) is the modern academic standard for the Qur’an in English, made by a scholar from within the tradition. This directory cites it for the Qur’anic vocabulary of gratitude — shukr and its family — rendered by someone for whom the text is scripture.
A translation by one scholar, and Muslims hold that no translation is the Qur'an itself — only the Arabic is. It presents the tradition's own claims of faith, not empirical findings.
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