Luise von Flotow is a Professor of Translation Studies at the School of Translation and Interpretation, University of Ottawa, Canada. She got her BA in German and French from the University of London (1974) and her MA in French from the University of Windsor (1985) and her Ph.D. in French from the University of Michigan (1991). Professor von Flotow was the director of the School of Translation ...

For almost thirteen centuries, the Qur’ān had been interpreted by men before it was first translated a woman. In 1995, Umm Muhammad, Amina Assami, into English under pseudonym Saheeh International. Extensive research indicates that Muhammad’s translation reproduces patriarchal gender hierarchies (Al-Sowaidi et al., 2021), while Laleh Bakhtiar’s Sublime Quran comprises feminist elements (Kidwai,...