The Introductory Text to M. I. Verevkin’s “Book of Al-Qur’ān by the Arab Mohammed…” (1790): Original and Modern Russian Translation

   The paper presents for the fi rst time the original text of the introduction to the Book ‘‘Al- Qur’ān by the Arab Mohammed …’’ (1790), together with its modern translation into Russian. The author of the introduction is the Russian educator, writer and translator M. I. Verevkin (1732–1795). The publication continues a series of studies by the Moscow Islamic Institute in collaboration with the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts on the existence of the text of the Qur’ān in Russia and Europe. The conceptual basis of the preface is formed by two principles: the classic French translation of the L’Alcoran de Mahomet (1647) by André Du Ryer (ca. 1580–1660?) and the personal vision of the Russian translator M. I. Verevkin.