ISLAMAWAKENED

Helping the West read the Qur’an since 2003

At one time the Muslim Student Association of the University of Southern California had a Qur’an resource, a site that displayed each verse of the Qur’an as four parallel English translations: Yusuf Ali, M. M. Pickthall, Shakir, and Rashad Khalifa. As a non-Arabic speaker G. Waleed Kavalec, a convert to Islam in 2000, found this to be an immense aid in reading and studying the Word.

To continue his studies, he downloaded the four translations from the MSA site into a popular database application, allowing for easier and more structured…