This edition of the Norton Critical Edition is based on a revised and annotated version of Pickthall's translation of the Quran. Topics include the academic traditions of studying the origins of the Quran, centuries of commentary, analysis, and intellectual dissemination that have created a library of Quranic scholarship, the history of translations, and the ways in which the Quran informs Muslim life and culture. It also includes texts that represent the full spectrum of Islamic religious thought and a selected bibliography.