The Shorter Sūras of the Qu’rān

50-114 with Al-Fātiḥa

"Samuel Zinner’s book is a journey into the depths of the Qur’an. The work is truly brilliant. Through a daring translation and luminous commentary, Qur’anic terms are set ablaze by their Semitic kin and resonant biblical and other spiritual echoes. Meanings are resurrected, intertexts breathe again, and language becomes revelation. This is a true masterpiece."

Abdulla Galadari, Associate Professor at Khalifa University
Author of Qur’anic Hermeneutics: Between Science, History, and the Bible (Bloomsbury Academic 2018) and Metaphors of Death and Resurrection in the Qur’an: An Intertextual Approach with Biblical and Rabbinic Literature (Bloomsbury Academic 2021).

Dr. Samuel Zinner (Aulla, Italy) is an internationally recognized scholar of ancient and modern languages, literatures, and history. He is co-editor of the forthcoming Foundations and Applications of Language and Number: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Bloomsbury 2026), featuring contributions by Noam Chomsky and other experts.