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From: cmaguire@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Cary Maguire)
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Subject: On Line Qur'an
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Date: 29 May 91 14:47:06 GMT
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Greetings!  Sorry for the incredible delay, but there had been quite a
few requests from the publishers, and I had to defend my dissertation
in the interim.  Good News!  We now have permission to publicly
distribute the text, though this permission will be renewed on a
yearly basis.  I got the go ahead today.  I think within the next two
days, I should be able to find an anonymous ftp site which will write
protect the text, as the publishers had requested.

So watch s.r.i for the next few days for the announcement of the ftp
site.  Beyond this step, we still have to address two questions: 1)
final proofreading (the text has passed through only a preliminary
editing) and 2) a permanent home for the text, meeting the following
criteria: a) someone to correspond with the publishers on an annual
basis to receive the publication permission, and b) a site which will
be willing to write protect, maintain and incorporate corrections of
the text over the foreseeable future.  I will be losing all computer
access soon, and, God willing, travelling to the Soviet Union, so I
need to pass the text to someone permanently based here who can
maintain this text.  Perhaps we could consult on ways to meet these
challenges, and in the mean time enjoy the first on-line public domain
version of the Holy Qur'an in English!

Peace!

Camm
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