If you want to read it from an secular perspective
• The Quran with Cross-References - Mun'im Sirry - De Gruyter (2022)
• The Quran Seminar Commentary: Collaborative Study of 50 Quranic Passages - Mehdi Azaiez, Gabriel S. Reynolds, Tommaso Tesei, Hamza M. Zafer - De Gruyter (2016)
• The Quran: A Historical Critical Introduction - Nicolai Sinai - Edinburgh University Press (2017)
• The Quran: A New Annotated Translation - Arthur J. Droge - Equinox Publishing Ltd. (2014)
• The Quran: Text and Commentary (Several volumes) - Angelika Neuwirth, Samuel Wilder - Yale University Press (2022)
What would be a good English translation of the Quran to reference? Thanks!
Unbiased?
You can see translation by NJ Dawood and AJ Arberry
If you want the orignal interpretation you can go for quran ibn katheer tafsir
https://ar.wikisource.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%AB%D9%8A%D8%B1
http://m.qtafsir.com/
If you want to read it from an secular perspective
• The Quran with Cross-References - Mun'im Sirry - De Gruyter (2022)
• The Quran Seminar Commentary: Collaborative Study of 50 Quranic Passages - Mehdi Azaiez, Gabriel S. Reynolds, Tommaso Tesei, Hamza M. Zafer - De Gruyter (2016) • The Quran: A Historical Critical Introduction - Nicolai Sinai - Edinburgh University Press (2017) • The Quran: A New Annotated Translation - Arthur J. Droge - Equinox Publishing Ltd. (2014) • The Quran: Text and Commentary (Several volumes) - Angelika Neuwirth, Samuel Wilder - Yale University Press (2022)
Thank you!