Translations of the al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya
There are many printed editions of Nasafi’s creed (al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya) in circulation for as soon as it was released it was widely circulated therefore a discussion of the many published editions of this work is in order. This work continued to be popular into the modern period even as soon as Modern Arabic printing using moveable metal type started this was one of the early printed texts where in 1843 the Rev. Curton published it. As we mentioned elsewhere it was commented on by many authors. The most popular and widely circulated commentary is by Saʿd al-dīn al-Taftāzānī simply titled Sharḥ al-ʿaqāʾida al-Nasafiyya (commentary on Nasafi’s creed). Since it was published it has attracted attention of academics to not only study but to translate it as well. Below is a selection of the few available translations.
English translations:
A Commentary one the Creed of Islam, E. E. Elder, Columbia University Press, New York, 1950. (translation of Saʿd al-dīn al-Taftāzānī, Sharḥ al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya) PDF, PDF
Translation by W. M. Watt, Islamic Creeds: A Selection (The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys) Translated by W. Montgomery Watt, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994.
Second translation Saʿd al-dīn al-Taftāzānī, Sharḥ al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya -trans. Mufti Muhammad Huzaifah ibn Adam aal-Ebrahim, Nidaa-ul-Haqq Publication, n.p. 2018. PDF
Home grown translations (PDF)
Other Language translations:
Urdu:ʿUmar al-Nasafī, al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya, translated by. Ghulam Ḥussaīn, 2015 Karachi? Pakistan PDF
Persian:ʿUmar al-Nasafī, al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya, translated by. Muḥamad ʿUmar Joya, Biynat.org PDF
Malay: See Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas study of it: The oldest known Malay manuscript a 16th century Malay translation of the ʻAqā’id of Al-Nasafī, Kuala Lumpur Dep. of Publ., Univ. of Malaya 1988.
German: Die Glaubenssätze des Imām al-Nasafī Al-ʻAqā’id al-Nasafiyya, Hellenthal Warda Publikationen Wentzel 2017. and Türkischer Catechismus der Muhammedanischen Religion, Hamburg Leipzig 1792, PDF