Kassis (Hanna E.), A Concordance of the Qur’an, Foreword by Fazlur Rahman, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1984, XXXIX+1484 p. Index. ISBN 0-520-04327-8

L’auteur

Hanna E. Kassis taught Islam and Near Eastern history at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Extraits de la préface de Fazlur Rahman

This Concordance of the Qur’an in English satisfies a paramount need of those—and there are millions of them—who have no command of the Arabic language and yet desire to understand the Qur’an. The benefit derivable from English translations of the Sacred Book is, in principle, limited because, first, the Qur’an is not a "book" but a collection of passages revealed to Muhammad over a period of about twenty-three years and, second, because the Qur’an is not really translatable. This does not mean that the Qur’an should not be translated. It does mean that translations lose much in tone and nuance, let alone the incommunicable beauty, grandeur, and grace of the original. . . .
The main distinction of Hana Kassis’s concordance, in my view, is that it utilizes the semantic structure of Arabic vocabulary itself in revealing the meaning of the Qur’an on any given issue, point or concept. A reader who looks in the index of this concordance for a word which he has encountered in reading an English translation of the Qur’an—the word pride, for example—is directed immediately to the roots of the Arabic, Qur’anic terms for pride. At tne entries for these Arabic roots, all the derivative forms are shown, and the verses of the Qur’an in which they appear are there listed in translation. . . . (lire la suite)

—Fazlur Rahman, Professor of Islamic Thought, University of Chicago

Sommaire

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Table of Transliterations
Introduction
A. The Qur’an: An Introductory Comment
B. How to Use the Concordance
C. The Language of the Qur’an
Appendix: A Numerical and Chronological List of the Chapters of the Qur’an
The Concordance
— The Divine Name (Allah)—100 pages
— The Remaining Vocabulary of the Qur’an—1250 pages
The Index
I. Terms Associated with the Divine Name
2. A. Divine Attributes
2. B. Proper Nouns
2. C. General Index

(Source : Oxford Islamic Studies Online)