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Listen to the complete thirty-part English recitation of the Sublime Quran on YouTube. Click on the video to listen to the recitation of the first part.
The first American woman to translate the Sublime Quran into English has now narrated her pioneering translation into an easy and accessible audio book format, Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar is once again breaking new ground. People now have the option of downloading and listening to her inclusive translation at work, home, and in between. Dr. Bakhtiar s narration is divided into thirty parts, in order that individual sections may be listened to she has made the Quran accessible to even people on-the-go. Utilizing the best of contemporary innovation, she has facilitated Muslims spiritual development and religious growth for the twentyfirst century. Dr. Bakhtiar recently received an email which emphasized how her translation can transform the experience of a sacred text and invite one to both read and listen. It said Encountering your translation represented a real personal breakthrough for me regarding Islam, or at least Islam as approached through English translation of the Quran. The internal consistency and your attempted avoiding of subjective interpretation worked for me, and as I read more and more, what normally strikes the English only reader as disjointed and theologically fragmented in the Quran gave way to a kind of majesty, a kind of excitement (and unique sadness) I'd never encountered before in any other book. I felt that at last I'd gotten a glimpse of what the Quran means, or at least what it could mean, on a very personal psychological level...Finally, as I was reading to my eight year old at bedtime from your translation, she did something she'd never done before. She stopped me and took the book from my hands so she too could read aloud... There is real power to this translation... Thank you for this book. The audio DVD contains more than 20 hours of recording. It should be downloaded on your computer and transferred to any audio player or CDs made for your CD player. For the first time on the web prominence is given to Female Reciters of the Quran and Female Reciters of Prayers in Praise of the Prophet. Muslims in most Islamic countries do not allow Female Reciters to be recorded as it is forbidden for men to listen to the voice of Women Reciters of the Quran. Exceptions are Malaysia and Indonesia. With the web, women have the opportunity to choose to listen to a Female Reciter. Hopefully this will increase efforts of Female Reciters to learn to recite the entire Quran for female listeners. Female prayer groups during the month of Ramadan who pray the tarawih prayer could then have a Female Reciter recite for them. If anyone would like to add their recitation to this page, please contact us.
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