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It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war--and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan.
This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to awake.
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It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war--and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan.
This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to awake.
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Known in his lifetime primarily to readers of science fiction, Philip K. Dick (1928-82) is now seen as a uniquely visionary figure, a writer who, in editor Jonathan Lethem's words, "wielded a sardonic yet heartbroken acuity about the plight of being alive in the twentieth century, one that makes him a lonely hero to the readers who cherish him." Posing the questions "What is human?" and "What is real?" in a multitude of fascinating ways, Dick produced works-fantastic and weird yet developed with precise logic, marked by wild humor and soaring flights of religious speculation-that are startlingly prescient imaginative responses to 21st-century quandaries.
This Library of America volume brings together four of Dick's most original novels. The Man in the High Castle (1962), which won the Hugo Award, describes an alternate world in which Japan and Germany have won World War II and America is divided into separate occupation zones. The dizzying The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) posits a future in which competing hallucinogens proffer different brands of virtual reality. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), about a bounty hunter in search of escaped androids in a postapocalyptic future, was the basis for the movie Blade Runner. Ubik (1969), with its future world of psychic espionage agents and cryogenically frozen patients inhabiting an illusory "half-life," pursues Dick's theme of simulated realities and false perceptions to ever more disturbing conclusions. As with most of Dick's novels, no plot summary can suggest the mesmerizing and constantly surprising texture of these astonishing books.
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dick novel sayer.......2007-09-30
The book is worth owning for the quality of the binding work. Fine paper, pages are well set, the binding is cloth and durable. The novels are also interesting, a combination of time capsule and science fiction.
Interesting but not earth-shaking collection of 1960's sci-fi.......2007-09-25
This is a collection of 4 of Philip K. Dick's sci-fi novels of the 1960's including Hugo award winner "The Man in the High Castle". The other three books are "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch", "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", and "Ubik" (see my review).
The Library of America has done the reading public a great service in printing collections of great American authors. This is the 173rd in the collection. I have read almost all of them. This one seems a little out of place, not because of the genre (I love science fiction and look forward to more LOA sci-fi), but because Dick is a second tier sci-fi author.
I know that there are Dick fanatics. But Dick's novels are dated, the characterizations are weak, the dialogue is stilted, and the plots often make no sense - and that's just what his admirers say.
Like all LOA offerings this is an excellent, low-priced hardback book that is well worth the money. Dick is still read-worthy mostly because several of his books have been made into movies - the best known of which are "Total Recall" with soft-core porn star and serial-groping Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger and "Blade Runner" with Harrison Ford. These movies are pretty good and "Blade Runner" was a great movie that has been influential. The problem is these movies are nothing like the books. The plots and characters have been changed by the screenplay authors, and I'm not talking a little bit but major changes in plot and character. So it really isn't fair to credit Dick with these movies that are loosely based, at best, on his works.
To really get the most out of these books and understand Dick's place in literature you need to understand a few things about the author. First of all Dick was nuts. Certifiably. In and out of asylum kind of nuts. His whole life. He was also into every drug you can imagine. His personal life was a shambles. His books never really sold well - as a matter of fact he was on welfare or bummed off of friends most of his life. No one knows whether anything Dick said was true or not. Many of his claims are clearly false. Some are not. He apparently was monitored by the FBI at some time, but then so were most malcontents of that period. But the prime suspect in a break-in of Dick's house was - Dick himself - as Dick himself admitted.
Dick liked to go to sci-fi conventions and use drugs. The 1968 Bay area sci-fi convention was known as "Drugcon" (Drug Convention) due to the prevalence of various mind-altering chemicals. This is important because one of Dick's novels main problems is that Dick's novels and stories often don't make sense.
And so we come to the four novels in this book. The first, "The Man in the High Castle" won the Hugo award of 1962. (The Hugo and the Nebula award are the highest honors in Science Fiction writing for you non Sci-Fi lovers) This novel is an alternate history if the US lost the Second World War. Interesting concept but the book's characters were particularly weak with none of them being particularly sympathetic. And the ending was a typical Dick ending where he made it possible that the whole book prior to that point may have been an illusion. The middle part was slow, but hey, it won a Hugo so give it a read.
The second book, "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" is a confused work that doesn't make sense as characters die and re-appear from various time-lines. Dick's favorite theme was "Is reality real", but this book has all kinds of plot inconsistencies. And any book that Yoko Lennon wanted to make a movie of is clearly suspect.
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" is the third book and the source of "Blade Runner". The movie screenplay is more interesting than the book. Dick's female characters almost always tended to by tricky, sex-starved, and one-dimensional. The movie does a much better job with the female characters.
The last book, "Ubik", is by far the best of the lot, though it won no prizes. The constant making fun of capitalist, American culture is one of my favorite things in this book. See my review for further details.
Overall, these are interesting books with the faults noted above. I think Heinlein, Card, Asimov, and other Sci-Fi writers are better though.
Much-deserved canonization.......2007-09-19
One needn't have been a sci-fi aficionado to have recognized Phil Dick's importance in American letters. His work had a prescience that relied only partly on the imaginative constructs that are staples of the genre. Dick's looks into the future were always grounded in a profound understanding of the eternal present of the human psyche -- man's desires and capabilities and the tensions created by the failure of the latter to achieve the ambitions of the former.
The four works in this collection reflect that sensitivity. They also explore, in successively more comprehensive ways, the relation between man and God, how each is a reflection of the other. In a real sense, they are works of remarkable piety.
As its inclusion in the Library of America suggests, these novels are well worth the time of the reading public.
Remarkable.......2007-07-26
I read alot, mostly sci-fi. I have never read anything like these stories by PKD. He must have been really deep into these stories as he was writing them. Very enjoyable.
The Definitive PKD.......2007-06-08
In the 1960s, when he wrote these four novels, Philip K. Dick was not known, as he is today, as an acclaimed "literary" science-fiction writer and visionary who inspired many films. Since his death in 1982, his reputation has steadily soared, a little bit too late, and now this former genre journeyman toiling in obscurity has become the first sf author to be enshrined in a handsome omnibus volume in the esteemed Library of America series. Of course, I had to buy it even though I already owned multiple copies of all these novels. It is a genuine pleasure to read any of the LOA volumes, so lovingly produced they are. And this one especially so, compiled as it was by an author heavily influenced by Dick, Jonathan Lethem. You will never see a biographical chronology so interesting to read in its own right: we even learn that Timothy Leary called Dick during John and Yoko's bed-in and he put the famous pair on the phone to tell PKD that they wanted to film one of the four novels contained here, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. Incidentally, Lethem's taste is impeccable. Though Dick wrote no fewer than 21 novels in the 1960s (plus a couple of dozen more before and after), these are without a doubt the four best: The Three Stigmata, The Man in the High Castle, Ubik, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? One could easily compile another such volume with four more extremely strong novels of this period: Clans of the Alphane Moon, Dr. Bloodmoney, Now Wait for Last Year, and Martian Time-Slip. However, the ones collected here are the ones I would pick, if I could have only four. They are all absolute classics and support many rereadings. I remember when in the 1970s, I encountered Three Stigmata for the first time and could not totally make sense of it, but I was intrigued. It was hallucinogenic, it was trippy, it was theological. A few years later I found myself seeking it out again, rereading with a passion, finally really "getting it," and then compulsively seeking out everything I could find by PKD. It took me years but I eventually tracked down every last out-of-print forgotten paperback. Since then all his works have been reprinted and made easily available. But my original "discovery" experience is why this LOA volume means so much to me now. The Man in the High Castle is perhaps the best alternate history ever written, a speculation on what life would have been like if the Germans and Japanese had won World War II. Ubik is a brilliant ontological quest into the very structure of reality. Do Androids Dream, the novel on which the film Blade Runner is based, is among other things a meditation on what it means to be human. These four novels have become like cornerstones in my own life's journey. For them to have been given this respectful and definitive publication is something that brings me a lot of pleasure, and would also, I think, have pleased Philip K. Dick.
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Americans, Germans, Japanese & the I Ching!.......2006-05-06
This book deservedly earned 1963 Hugo Prize.
PKD shows his master writing craft depicting an alternate world in which the Allied has lost the war with the Axis.
USA is dismembered into three different countries: one under the influence of the Germans, one under Japanese influence and a feeble third one in the middle of the other two.
The plot follows different threads showing how life is in this barren new world. Germans had expanded over Africa and carried there their "final solution" schema. In contrast the Japanese show a more humanistic and restrained politic, but falling back in technological aspects, they are menaced with extinction.
There are two books inside this book which take up the center of the show: the Chinese book of Changes (I Ching) and the fictional "The Grasshopper Lies Heavy" describing an alternate world more near to ours but NOT the same. This last twist is a provoking "what if" inside another one, showing PKD style.
PKD describes his characters with a firm hand, giving them deep human traits. They strive to survive against dangerous odds. At the same time they try to discover the ultimate sense of life.
As usual with PKD writings a deep melancholic undercurrent traverse the whole story.
As I've seen in some other great sci-fi books, behind the surface of the current action lay powerful moral and ethic questions.
The end of the novel satisfactorily closes all threads.
When I first read this book in the early '60s, I was puzzled by the I Ching and started studying it and finally consulting it. A great experience to be sure.
This book is a real Classic with capital letter. Not only sci-fi fans may appreciate it general (open-minded) public too!
Enjoy!
Reviewed by Max Yofre.
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Against this nightmare-come-true, one man, alone in a high castle surrounded by barbed wire, pits his solitary courage.
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Great Potential, Lesser Execution.......2007-09-02
(This review is based on the Library of America edition)
This novel deals with alternate history, one in which the Nazis and the Japanese Empire won World War 2. Roosevelt was assassinated, which led the USA to develop a different foreign affairs policy, and a failure to overcome the 1929 depression, which in turn made it so that the USA weren't ready to save the world from the Nazi menace.
There are 3 main characters in the book and these stories cross each other's path. Two of them are Americans, a third is a Japanese working in America. I would have given 5 stars for the two first thirds of the book, really, but then, things seem to cheapen somewhat. There's no real ending, and upon the author's own admission "I like to think of the ending as an open ending". It sure is open, as it isn't really one. Besides, I'm still somewhat confused about the ending and I think it doesn't do justice to the whole idea.
I had high hopes for this book, given the basic concept of alternate history, but in the end I find myself somewhat disappointed. As I said, the two first thirds are good, but I suspect it was so because I still had hope for things to get more interesting as the story went by. They didn't. And that's too bad.
Nevertheless, it was interesting to see what Dick did with this concept. There are some really good things about this novel, don't be too concerned with my giving it only 3 stars. It is a bit harsh, but I couldn't give more without somehow feeling like I'm forcing it. Good ideas alone are not enough, you got to execute them well too. So... I'm confused as to whether this is a good novel or not. Dick has a way of writing that you may or may not like. He uses a freestyle switch from third person to first person narratives; meaning that the characters infect the otherwise neutral narrator's voice without quotation marks or the likes. He also has a tendency to cut pronouns from sentences altogether. I'm not saying any of these are bad but they're a style one may like or not.
If you're curious, have a go at it; the novel is slightly over 200 pages and so it's not an excruciatingly long read to go through if you happen to dislike it.
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When WWII Ends Wrongly the I Ching May Rescue the Allies!.......2006-06-01
This book deservedly earned 1963 Hugo Prize.
PKD shows his master writing craft depicting an alternate world in which the Allies has lost the war with the Axis.
USA is dismembered into three different countries: one under the influence of the Germans, one under Japanese influence and a feeble third one in the middle of the other two.
The plot follows different threads showing how life is in this barren new world. Germans had expanded over Africa and carried there their "final solution" schema. In contrast the Japanese show more humanistic and restrained politic, but falling back in technological aspects, they are menaced with extinction by Germany unstoppable rise.
There are two other books inside this book which take up the center of the show. One the Chinese book of Changes (I Ching) and the fictional "The Grasshopper Lies Heavy" describing an alternate world more near to ours but NOT the same as ours. This last twist is a provoking "what if" inside another one, showing PKD style.
PKD describes his characters with a firm hand, giving them deep human traits. They strive to survive against dangerous odds. At the same time they try to discover the ultimate sense of life.
As usual with PKD writings a deep melancholic undercurrent traverse the whole story.
As I've seen in some other great sci-fi books, behind the surface of the current action lay powerful moral and ethic questions.
The end of the novel satisfactorily closes all threads.
When I first read this book in the early '60s, I was puzzled by the I Ching and started studying it and finally consulting it. A great experience to be sure.
This book is a real Classic with capital letter. Not only sci-fi fans may appreciate it general (open-minded) public too!
Enjoy!
Reviewed by Max Yofre.
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Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book of the Year. This innovative cultural critique offers valuable insights into science fiction, thus enlarging our understanding of critical theory.
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Critical Theory needs critical response.......2002-05-01
It's amazing that people can judge a book by reading excerpts on the net. Critical Theory and Science Fiction is not an easy read but CT never was or will be. You don't have to agree with the Marxist theories of Bloch and Adorno, Carl Freedman uses to make his various points, to appreciate his insights and the challenges he throws at the reader. That is what academics are supposed to do and not to wallow in old cliche's and easy answers. The "excursuses" (his term) into classic SF novels such as Stanislaw Lem's SOLARIS, Ursula Le Guin's THE DISPOSSESSED, Joanna Russ' THE TWO OF THEM, Samuel Delany's STARS IN MY POCKET LIKE GRAINS OF SANDS and the greatest SF writer, Philip K Dick's THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE are lessons every SF reader and writer should make their own. At least Freedman is raising the level of SF discourse beyond Star Trek Convensions or Star Wars hype.
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Containing the full Arabic text of the Qur'an, an accompanying English translation, and extensive commentary, this is a compilation of the Muslim faith's Final Revelation from God to mankind through the last Prophet Muhammad, Peace be upon Him. The Qur'an has a wealth of information--both worldly wisdom and intellectual concepts--providing a code of life for humankind generally and Muslims in particular. Indeed, the Qur'an's miracle lies in its ability to offer something to non-believers and everything to believers. This elegantly-packaged edition includes a ribbon marker and is fully indexed.
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To Understand Islam, One Must Read the Qur'an.......2007-10-01
This is a beautiful book, containing the full text of the Qur'an, in Arabic, a full translation in English, as well as commentary in English.
I purchased this translation of the Qur'an, that I might read "The Truth About Muhammad" by Robert Spencer, with greater facility. According to Spencer, "Qu'ranic verse numeration is not standard." To be able to lookup the verses mentioned by Spencer, one must have a copy of one the translations which he used as a reference. This translation of the Qur'an is one referenced by Spencer.
better understanding.......2007-09-30
I reverted to Islam about a year and a half ago and a friend who is also an American Muslim recommended this translation to me. I had been reading from a different translation ("Al-Qur'an: A Contemporary Translation by Ahmed Ali"). Although I found that translation sufficent, this translation helped me gain a better and more thorough understanding because of the depth and detail of the commentary on each Surah. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to read Qur'an in English.
excellent translation.......2007-09-16
The translator Yusaf Ali did a wonderful job with the translation, and the commentary was a great help. The commentary provided much needed reasoning behind the scripture, and laid it out wonderfully for all to understand.
Thanks again,
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Reviewing the quality of this edition, not the Quran itself........2007-06-02
I bought this edition some months ago from Amazon.com and for most purposes it is a fine edition however it has many printing errors and typographical errors. letters left out (for example 'lood' where 'blood' is obviously intended). The paper is rather thin, so you see the printing on the backing page when you are reading, this can be distracting.
It is well bound, and the print quality is good. On the whole it is a good production but the publishers need to do a much better job of proof-reading before they go to the presses.
The Qur'an: Text, Translation & Commentary.......2007-05-13
Don't know enough about this item to rate it. But according to other reviews, it said to be the best.
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PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION
It has been more than half a century since the first appearance of 'Abdullah Yusuf 'Ali's superlative work, The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary. Since that time, there have been innumerable reprinting and millions of copies distributed throughout the world. It is, by far, the best known, most studied, and most respected English translation of the Qur'an. It was the first monumental and authoritative work of its kind and it subsequently inspired many such similar endeavors. The eloquent poetic style of the translation and the authenticity of the extensive commentaries and explanatory notes, have, no doubt, contributed greatly to its much deserved reputation as the English translation of the meaning of the Qur'an.
The tremendous impact that this work has made upon the English-reading Muslims (as well as, many non-Muslims) of the world, has never been greater than it is today and shall continue-insha'a Allah (Allah willing)-for generations to come. It has enabled interested readers of English, who do not have a proficiency in reading and comprehending Qur'anic Arabic, to greatly enrich their understanding of the meaning and the incomparable beauty and perfection of the Glorious Qur'an. It has given them a more authentic and reliable translation and commentary from which they could make a serious study.
`A. Yusuf 'All was quick to point out that there can be no absolute or perfect rendition of the meaning of the Qur'an and, at best, only an interpretation of its understood meaning can be offered. Probably, he never envisaged how universal his work would someday become, for he was primarily attempting to explain his understanding of the Qur'an to his fellow-countrymen-both Muslims and no Muslims alike. Therefore, he was apt to occasionally use references, which could not be easily appreciated outside the milieu of the Indian Subcontinent.
Although it may not have been the intention of the author to reach such a wide range of readers as exists today, there nevertheless has long been a need for a revised new edition reflecting the needs and demands of today's enthusiastic readership. In response to this need, the present edition represents the first major revision since the initial printing over fifty years ago.
Revisions have been made in both the content and form of the original work. Where necessary, the content has been brought up-to-date and within the current understanding and interpretation of the Qur'an. In the translation, the Surah introductions, and the commentaries, such changes were relatively few and infrequent and have been noted as having been revised. The reader will however, find such notable changes as the use of the name 'Allah' for the word 'God' (as used in previous editions) since it was felt that the use of this Most Glorious Name is more widely understood and accepted by the general reader today. In addition, the word 'Messenger' has been given preference over the word 'Apostle' for the meaning of the original Qur'anic word in Arabic 'Rasul'. The reason being, it was felt, that the former term more clearly expresses the Islamic usage of the term without any negative connotations, which may be associated with the latter term resulting from inaccuracies in its use by other religious or historical works.
The explanatory footnotes and the appendices, however, were subject to more frequent, and occasionally more substantial, changes than those in the translation and the commentaries. The reason being there was a greater need of general updating of information and clarification of certain explanations, which were subject to misinterpretation. There were also a few instances in which certain portions of the material were deleted, either due to its out datedness or due to its proneness to misinterpretation.
The form of this newly revised edition has undergone a more dramatic change in style and has been vastly improved in order to facilitate its readability and study. The type for the English text has been completely reset for the first time, thereby making the character definition more legible after many years of reprinting.
In addition, the spelling has been modernized and the system of transliteration of Arabic into English has been modernized and standardized. For reasons of practicality, the title of each Surah appears in its transliterated form at the head of each page within the Surah. This should enable the non-Arabic reader to not only become more familiar with the names of the Surahs in Arabic but also to begin to associate the content of what he/she is reading with the name of the Surah in which he/she is reading. In addition, the 'Abbreviated' Letters (or al Muqatta'at) have been transliterated as they are spelled out in Arabic to make it possible to learn their pronunciation.
Furthermore, anew system of Qur'anic notation of the Surah and Ayah numbers used in the English text has been adopted. The Roman numerals used in the original system have been converted to Arabic numerals thus making it easier for most readers to readily understand the notations and to encourage them to investigate the frequent references and cross-references found in the Table of Contents Index, and Footnotes. In this edition (1416/1995), anew and comprehensive index for the translation and the commentary has been added to the book to facilitate its use and maximize the benefits of the work. Finally the method of indicating each Juz' (or 1/30th part of the Qur'an) has been modified in order to incorporate the more conventional method of notation commonly used today and thereby reduce the potential for confusion to the reader.
In sum, the editors have acted out of a sincere desire to improve upon this great work. It is hoped that this will-insha a Allah- help in furthering the aim of 'Abdullah Yusuf 'Ali by enhancing the usefulness and relevance of his work to the ever-changing needs and demands of the countless readers of today. May Allah bless him for his truly extraordinary efforts in producing this invaluable work of translation and commentary.
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My Favorite English Translation.......2007-08-23
I have read several translations of the Quran, and this is by far my
favorite. It is written beautifully and the commentaries are very
helpful. I highly recommend this version.
Good translation but is it Yusuf Ali?.......2007-07-21
This is a pretty good translation (transliteration) well put together and a little easier to read than that of Pickthall and includes an exellent comentary to the text which I have to say, is prtty important as the Quran is a difficult book to read.
My only problem is that just how much of this transliteration and comentary is that of Yusuf Ali and how much of it has been revised, changed, altered etc...... Recent editions have been published in Saudi Arabia or with Saudi money with the title 'Revised edition' would be interesting to read the original.
DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME ON THESE CUSTOMER "REVIEWS".......2007-07-05
I have plowed through almost 60 of the (at this time) 69 "reviews" of this translation. SAVE YOURSELF THE TROUBLE!
Amazon.com sometimes lets the "customer review" section become nothing more than a chat room for a bunch screeching polemicists who give no indication of having read the book being reviewed and who certainly give no useful information about it. THIS IS ONE OF THOSE SECTIONS.
Continue only if your taste for screed, invective, and (yes) threats of physical violence is high.
If you wanted a review, this is NOT the place.
I came here because the paperback edition of this same translation was reviewed by one person as being inferior in print quality. If it is so, nobody here seems to care.
I suggest that you read the reviews at The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary
The best Koran for somebody learning Arabic.......2007-02-16
The Arabic script is big enough to actually read! The choice of script is also good, in that it is not overy ornate and very much like that used in popular books for learning Arabic. There is also some interesting commentary that does not seem over the top.
Error In Quran?.......2006-10-09
S18 v86 when he reached the setting of the sun, he found it set in a spring of murky water: Near it he found a People: We said: "O Zul-qarnain! (thou hast authority,) either to punish them, or to treat them with kindness."
This is to the error in quran ...................its is simple if you go to any beach and observed the sun you will see it setting in water(appearance) so it says in Quran that HE Zul-qarnain! found it set in a spring of murky water, it has nothing to do with creator and there is no mistake.
The Quran talks about Zul-qarnain not the shape of earth.
Read the Quran and find out shape of earth,creation of humans,plants,animals much much more. the Quran says there is not a quation that it can't answer if you have difficulty ask a muslim to help
There are more than 1000 verses in Quran dealing with science. challenge to any one to prove them wrong with proven scientific facts not assumptions
Other scriptures I could write a book, Atheism refer to the Quran you will find what, the term God means.
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Revised Fifth Edition - Holy Qur'an, Arabic text, English translation and commentary.
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Of the existing translations and commentaries of the Qur'an in English, 'Abdullah Yusuf 'Ali's version is perhaps the most popular and the widely read. Its chaste English prose and scholarly notes and appendices, have made it a major landmark in the Qur'anic interpretations. It has enjoyed such authority that both scholars and students have widely used this as their reference ever since it was first published in new edition, printed on thin paper, comes in a new readable format, beautifully typeset in large font sizes both Arabic and English, with footnotes and commentaries.
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