Bausani Il Corano.pdf
Il Corano. Edizione aggiornata 2022 - Alessandro Bausani - Libro - IBS
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Alessandro Bausani ’s 1955 Italian translation of the Qur’an is recognized as a landmark in Western Islamic studies for its direct translation from Arabic and high philological accuracy. It remains a key academic resource, valued for Bausani’s scholarly footnotes and effort to capture the original text’s poetic rhythm in Italian. For legitimate access, researchers and readers should seek authorized editions from major Italian publishers. Bausani Il Corano.pdf
No work is without critique. Some Arabists have noted that Bausani’s obsessive pursuit of rhyme occasionally leads to semantic distortion. A word in Sura 108 ( Al-Kawthar ), for instance, might be stretched to fit a rhyme scheme, losing its precise nuance of “abundance.” Furthermore, his poetic approach sometimes obscures the legalistic, prosaic sections of the Quran (e.g., Sura 4 on inheritance), making them sound more lyrical than they actually are in the original.
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The central thesis of Bausani’s introduction and his notes throughout Il Corano is the acknowledgment of the Quran’s structural inimitability ( i‘jāz ). Classical Islamic doctrine holds that the Quran is a miracle of language; its rhymed prose ( saj‘ ), its abrupt syntactic shifts, and its phonetic density cannot be reproduced. Traditional Western translators—from Rodwell to Pickthall—often smoothed over these features to produce fluent, readable prose. Bausani, however, embraced the roughness.
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