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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

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Average rating: 3.51 · 1,530 ratings · 220 reviews · 11 distinct works

	Aladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights by N.J. Dawood (Editor), Anonymous, William Harvey (Illustrations) 3.54 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1960 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Tales from the Arabian Nights 3.82 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1978 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Koran by Anonymous, N.J. Dawood (Translator) 4.29 avg rating — 9,566 ratings — published 650 — 166 editions	My rating:
	Sinbad The Sailor: Seven Voyages Of Sinbad The Sailor (Penguin 60s) 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Thousand and One Nights 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1954	My rating:
	The Koran 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Arabian Nights (Penguin Audiobooks) 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1995	My rating:
	Sinbad the Sailor and Other Stories 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History (Abridged Edition) (Bollingen Series (General)) by Ibn Khaldun, N.J. Dawood (Editor), Franz Rosenthal (Translator) 4.26 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 1987 — 21 editions	My rating:
	Sinbad the Sailor and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights by N. J. Dawood, N.J. Dawood (Retold by), William Harvey (Illustrator) 3.91 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1997	My rating: