The Saudi-sponsored English Qur’an interpolates Wahhabi doctrine while disavowing the connection.

Evidence

The translators also interpolate Wahhabi terminology regarding tawh˙ı¯d directly into their English rendition of the Qur’a¯n. An appendix to the volume, with subheadings such as “Tawh˙ı¯d – (Islamic Monotheism),” is an organized summary of the principles of Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahha¯b’s Kita¯b al-Tawh˙ı¯d, although it does not acknowledge itself as such (Hila¯lı¯ and Kha¯n 1996, 825–45; 1999, 854–68). Indeed, in the 1999 edition of NQEL, any connection to Wahhabi doctrine is disavowed explicitly in a bilingual facing page notice (iʿla¯n) placed at the end of the volume (Hila¯lı¯ and Kha¯n 1999, 925–26). — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 1888

Categorization

• SEED: The NQEL translation — which weights ‘Jews’ and ‘Christians’ far beyond the Arabic text — is a rich case for an essay on how translation itself becomes an instrument of enemy-marking, with the translators disavowing authorship to hide the interpolation.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: whether NQEL’s inflated ‘Jews/Christians’ counts have measurably shaped Anglophone Muslim and anti-Muslim reading of the Qur’an, given it is the free default translation from Saudi institutions.
• XREF: connects to: An English Qur’an translation inflated mentions of Jews and Christians to manufacture animus — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 1887; Wahhabi clerics shifted their target from internal Muslim apostates to Jews and Christians. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 1882; Saudi rulers exported Wahhabi militancy abroad to deflect criticism at home. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 1904 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The modern period also brought about a new ‘fundamentalist’ movement, which came with a reinterpretation of Islam and its own stance on jihad. The fundamentalists tended to focus less on legal… #expands (0.82)
• Saudi rulers exported Wahhabi militancy abroad to deflect criticism at home. #corroborates (0.78) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 1904