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Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872-1953)

Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872-1953). Indian scholar best known for translating Qur’an into English Originally Shi‘ite, but was concerned for all Muslims. Also mystical tendencies Born Bombay. Educated at Muslim school in India, then degree at Cambridge. Worked in Indian civil service.

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Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872-1953)

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  1. Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872-1953) Indian scholar best known for translating Qur’an into English Originally Shi‘ite, but was concerned for all Muslims. Also mystical tendencies Born Bombay. Educated at Muslim school in India, then degree at Cambridge. Worked in Indian civil service. Supported British presence in India. Died in London

  2. Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872-1953) Translation of Qur’an shows modernist and mystical tendencies, has led some Islamists to try and expurgate what they see as unorthodox

  3. Muhammad Abduh (1849-1905) and Muhammad Rashid Rida (1865-1935) Abduh was pupil of al-Afghani. Rida was pupil of Abduh. Both were modernists, advocating Islamic reform in face of modern world Together worked on Abduh’s journal Al-Manar, which included Tafsir al-Manar, commentary on Qur’an

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