Tehran Times
Sept 7 2004

Two Joz’s of Holy Qur’an translated into Armenian

Tehran Times Culture Desk

TEHRAN (MNA) — The last two joz’s (thirtieths) of the Holy Qur’an
have been translated into the Armenian language.

According to the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization, the
138-page text was translated by Armenian Edward Haqverdian, making
use of the Persian translations of the Qur’an by Ayatollah Makarem
Shirazi, Elahi Qomshe’i, and Allameh Tabataba’i.

Due to the dearth of Armenian equivalents for Qur’anic terms, the
translator has used descriptive texts accompanied with the original
Arabic text for some sections of the work.

Although there are very few Armenian Muslims, Orientalists and
Iranologists of Armenia are very interested in becoming more
familiarized with the tenets of Islam.

The project was sponsored by the Iranian Cultural Office in Armenia.

This work is the only Armenian language Qur’anic text translation
which was produced under the supervision of Muslim experts.