Book Review: Martin Lings: The Holy Qurʾan: Translations of Selected PassagesWhen he passed away on May 12, 2005, Martin Lings was working on a translation of the Qur'an commissioned by the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute of Islamic Thought in 2004. It seems that he had barely start ed on the project when he made his passage to the other world. After his death, his widow granted permission to the publisher to put together all the translations of the Qur'anic passages found in his published and unpublished works. The result is The Holy Qur'an: Translations of Selected Passages. The book is, however, not what one assumes from its title; rather, it is a painstakingly collated work of what can be called a valuable collection of Ling's Qur'an translation project in progress. The collator of this bi-lingual posthumous publication, Aftab Ahmed, has gathered together all the variant translations of Qur'anic verses found in Martin Ling's published and unpublished works and presented them in an orderly manner, clearly indicating the source where they first appeared or else marking them as previously unpublished.
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