When M.A.S. Abdel Haleem was a youngster in Egypt, all the boys in his school were required...problematic." John D McHugh/associated pressProfessor M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, the director of the Centre of Islamic Studies, has published...

...very worst ones. Hallelujahs for the top four of 2004: 1. "The Quran" (Oxford University Press) by M.A.S. Abdel Haleem of the University of London, which fills the huge need for a scholarly yet readable translation. (Its only competitor...