I don't trust any translation after Arberry due to political baggage associated with Islam

Gabriel Said Reynolds has a Christian commentary on the Quran. Or the "Kor-An" as goofy performative scholars pronounce it.
Gordon Nickel has one out too.
Robert Spencer's "Critical Koran" is a sort of New King James update of, I think, Pickthall, but does have somewhat-decent footnotes mostly supplied by Ibn Warraq. Could itself use an update.

>>25190044
The first syllable is short and can't be transliterated into English really because it's a throat letter, and the second syllable is quantitatively long. Classical Arabic like Greek and Latin uses syllable length instead of stress

I decide on the version of the Krr-An based on the rendition of 4:34

>>25190022
Here's a list of reviews of 120 Quran translations from the past few centuries as of last December
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/400288583_Towards_Translating_the_Quran_Assessment_of_120_English_Translations_of_the_Quran

>>25190124
Kek

>>25190044
Yeah but there's only like 4 English Quran translations that are poetic:

1. Arberry
2. Nikayin (a Shia translation)
3. Shawkat Toorwa (partial translation)
4. The one in OP

You can get a lot of literal translations but they all ruin the flow of the original language

>>25189949
let me guess, they edited out all the stuff about beheading infidels?

>>25190163
Nope, they kept it in:
>But when the forbidden months are over , kill the polytheists wherever you encounter them ; seize them and besiege them and lie in wait for them .

>>25190232
Mushrikeen should really be translated as idolators. Polytheist is such flattening choice of English terminology that accentuates why this is inferior to ol arberry.

>>25190132
You forgot Rodwell

>>25190303
But it doesn't refer exclusively to idol worship but any type of polytheism