# Licence — The Meaning of the Glorious Koran

- **Translation:** The Meaning of the Glorious Koran
- **Translator:** Marmaduke Pickthall
- **Language:** English
- **First published:** 1930
- **Licence:** Public Domain
- **Basis:** Public domain worldwide. Translator Marmaduke Pickthall died 1936 (life+70 term expired 2007); first published 1930, before 1 Jan 1931, so also public domain in the United States.
- **Verified at:** https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Meaning_of_the_Glorious_Koran_(1930)

## Retrieval

The verse text was retrieved from **fawazahmed0/quran-api** (Unlicense (public-domain dedication)), a public-domain compilation of public-domain translation texts, pinned to immutable commit `6be8e17f2a0c13b1f33b1c3057f73cb28d5e848e` (https://github.com/fawazahmed0/quran-api).

The right to redistribute this edition derives from the work's own public-domain status recorded above, not from where the bytes were fetched. Alignment to the corpus is **verse-level only**: there is one translation line per counted verse, keyed by the verse identifier. No word-level alignment is claimed or provided.