PS
"I encountered an alarming caveat." sear

Perhaps the caveats are similar, or perhaps they vary. Here's the first one I found, in today's search.
On this Web site, there are three translations of the Qur'an. Note that any translation of the Qur'an immediately ceases to be the literal word of Allah, and hence cannot be equated with the Qur'an in its original Arabic form. In fact, each of the translations on this site is actually an interpretation which has been translated.

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/

PS
Perhaps we should note, while there is much merit in fidelity to tradition, this institutional resistance to change over centuries could rationally be imagined to cause some problems.
And just as we can see, problems have occurred. I do not believe the two are unrelated.
It's called "cause and affect".
When god tells believers, in eternally unchanging writing: "... slay the infidels wherever ye find them..." Qur'an: Sura 9 Verse 5
how can we be sincerely surprised when they do?

"when the bigots of this world have been privileged for as long as they have, to them equality feels like discrimination." shiftless2