M. A. S. Abdel Haleem Audiobooks

The Qur'an: a complete English-language edition, read by Ayman Haleem

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Who is M. A. S. Abdel Haleem?

Nineteen hours is the first fact worth registering, because it tells you at once what sort of entry this is. The Qur’an sits on our religion and spirituality shelf as a complete English-language edition credited to M. A. S. Abdel Haleem, and it asks to be approached quite differently from anything else nearby.

Rendering a sacred text into another language is exacting work, and the name attached to a particular edition matters a great deal to the people who use it. Ours runs to more than nineteen hours, an unhurried and unabridged length that makes no attempt to summarise or select. What is offered is the text, entire, in a form that can be listened to rather than read.

M. A. S. Abdel Haleem in audiobooks

Ayman Haleem reads, across nineteen hours and a quarter. A recording on this scale is not designed to be consumed straight through over a weekend. It is built for return visits, for particular passages, and for listeners who want the text present in the room while their hands are busy elsewhere.

The listener sample we hold is very small, which is unsurprising for a recording of this type, so there is little to be inferred from the score. It has been on our shelves since 2018, and the running time alone marks it out from most of what sits nearby. Details of the recording follow below.