N.J. Dawood





N.J. Dawood

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Nessim Joseph Dawood (Arabic: نعيم جوزيف داوود) was born in 1927 to an Iraqi Jewish family in Baghdad, Iraq. He emigrated to England in 1945 as an Iraq State scholar, and settled there. He graduated from the University of London. He is known for his English translations of the Qur’an, Tales from the One Thousand and One Nights (Penguin Classics) and his edition of the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun. (from Wikipedia).

"N.J. Dawood is perhaps the only Jew to have translated the Qur'an into English. Available in the Penguin edition, Dawood's translation, The Koran (London, 1956) is perhaps the most widely circulated non-Muslim English translation of the Qur'an. The author's bias against Islam is readily observable in the Introduction. Apart form ado...more


Average rating: 3.51 · 1,530 ratings · 220 reviews · 11 distinct works
Aladdin and Other Tales fro...
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3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1960 — 5 editions
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Tales from the Arabian Nights
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1978 — 2 editions
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The Koran
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Sinbad The Sailor: Seven Vo...
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions
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The Thousand and One Nights
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1954
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The Koran
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Arabian Nights (Penguin Aud...
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1995
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Sinbad the Sailor and Other...
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1997
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