📚 The Koran

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Islam’s central text: its recitation, translation history and the commentary tradition around it.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject koran in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
La Bible, le Coran et la science	Maurice Bucaille	1970	23
The Meaning of the Holy Qur'an	Marmaduke Pickthall	1930	18
The Holy Qur'an	Abdullah Yusuf Ali	1977	17
Rūḥ al-ma`ānĭ fĭ Tafsĭr al-Qur`ān al-`Aẓĭm wa-al-Sab` al-mathānĭ	Maḥmūd ibn `Abd Allāh Ālūsĭ al-Kabĭr	1997	17
The Koran	J. M. Rodwell	1861	15
Qur'an	Massimo Campanini	2010	14
The Koran	N. J. Dawood	1956	11
Quran	Rashad Khalifa	1980	11
The meaning of the Holy Qurả̄n	Abdullah Yusuf Ali	1991	10
Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an	Jane Dammen McAuliffe	2003	9
Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʻaẓīm	Ibn Kathīr, Ismāʻīl ibn ʻUmar	1924	8
The Qur'an and modern science	Maurice Bucaille	1970	8
Theological Approaches to Qur'anic Exegesis	Hussein Abdul-Raof	2012	8
Introduction to the Qurʾān	Bell, Richard	1953	7
Approaches to the Qur'an	G. R. Hawting	1993	7
al -Tafsĭr al-kabĭr	Ibn Taymiyyah	2000	7
Textual Relations in the Qur'an	Salwa M. El-Awa	2005	7
Pen and the Faith	Kenneth Cragg	2010	7
Qur'anic Hermeneutics	Bruce Fudge	2012	7
Tarjumah-'i tafsir-i Tabari	Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari	1960	6
Tarjumān al-Qurʾān	Abūlkalām Āzād	1962	6
Fī ẓilāl al-Qurʾān	Sayyid Quṭb	1977	6
Tafsir al-Qur'an al-`azim	Ibn Kathīr, Ismāʻīl ibn ʻUmar	2000	6
Qur'an	Oliver Leaman	2005	6
Qur'an Translation	Hussein Abdul-Raof	2010	6
Animals in the Qur'an	Sarra Tlili	2012	6
Reading the Qur'an in the Twenty-First Century	Abdullah Saeed	2013	6
Introduction to Qur'anic Script	Syed Barakat Ahmad	2013	6
Tafsīr al-Marāghī	Aḥmad Muṣṭafá Marāghī	1946	5
Readings in the Qur'an	Kenneth Cragg	1988	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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