Harmony, Music, and Alliteration in German Translations of the Holy Quran

This research was an attempt to study the extent to which music and form of ayahs and surahs of the Quran are regarded in Quranic translations and how such crucial elements are translatable. Each text has different aspects and in terms of form and music, religious texts also convey special messages, which regarding their particular impact on the audience, are highly important. These significant textual features can necessarily be reflected in translation.
The current study tried to analyze these textual features and standards in German translations of the Holy Quran by Friedrich Rückert (1788-1866) and to answer this very question that to what extent this Quranic translation has been successful in transferring the form and the tone of the original text. By presenting different examples from short musical Surahs, in comparison with their Persian translations, important literal and linguistic subtleties of religious texts were analyzed and the translation quality, compared with the original Quranic text, was evaluated.