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Exploring the Quran: A Look into Bausani's Il Corano PDF

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"The Quran" or "Il Corano" in Italian, is a significant religious text in Islam, considered by Muslims to be the literal word of God as revealed to the Prophet Muhammad. To understand the value of , one must

To understand the value of , one must first understand the man behind the translation. Alessandro Bausani (1921-1988) was an Italian historian of religion, linguist, and author. He was a full professor at the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" and the Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli.

In the vast library of Western translations of the Quran, most renderings fall into two categories: the philologically precise but arid, and the theologically reverent but obscure. Alessandro Bausani’s Il Corano (first published by Sansoni in 1955, later by Rizzoli/BUR) stands apart as a revolutionary artifact. Unlike his predecessors who sought to extract meaning from the Arabic text, Bausani attempted the impossible: to translate not just the message of the Quran, but its music . His work transforms the translation of a sacred text from a mere act of linguistic substitution into a profound literary and theological argument about the nature of divine revelation.