Rabi'a Elizabeth · @rabia_elizabeth
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One of the 20th century's best known translators of and commentators on the is buried in the #Rauda. This is Muhammad Asad, formerly Leopold Weiss, the son of a barrister and grandson of an orthodox rabbi, born in Poland.

He was a journalist who, after travels in the region where he struck up a friendship with the , reverted to . He then went to for a while where he worked to help create an state.

His translation of and commentary on the Quran, "The Message of the Quran," was published in 1980. You can find it in hardcover and, guess what, there's a lovely app available for Apple and probably Android too.

He spent his last years in . Fortunately for us he wrote an autobiography, "The Road to Mecca," which is well worth your time.

See alt text for more detail on the gravesite.

sufism.org/origins/quran-islam

#quran #Granada #jewish #mena #sauds #islam #pakistan #islamic #spain #translations #tafsir #quranicstudies #converts #reverts #muslims

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Ghilène HAZEM · @GhileneH
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Nicolai 's "Key Terms of the Qur'an: A Critical Dictionary" (Princeton, 2023) is partially accessible via Google Books.

#sinai #IslamicStudies #quranicstudies

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IDHN · @idhn
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A message from our board of advisors:

Eric Atwell is inviting us today at 13:00 CET to a talk at the School of Computing Colloquium of the University of Leeds by

Rana Malhas (Qatar University)

about Arabic Reading Comprehension on the Holy Qur’an using CL-AraBERT.

microsoft.com/de-de/microsoft-

Meeting ID: 355 926 814 82
Passcode: 4dJRfD

Share this information with all those interested in etc.

#dh #bert #quranicstudies

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Natalie · @natalie
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PhD position at the Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies in , Germany

PhD project: "Arabic-Ottoman translations of works of Qurʾanic exegesis (Tafsīr) as an expression of the inner-Islamic transfer of knowledge in the Eastern Mediterranean between 1400–1750"

Deadline for applications: 9th February 2023

Affiliation with the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Inner-Islamic Transfer of Knowledge within Arabic-Persian-Ottoman Translation Processes in the Eastern (1400–1750)

uni-muenster.de/ArabistikIslam

@islamicstudies @religion @phdlife @phdstudents

CC @gloqur

#muenster #mediterranean #quranicstudies #IslamicStudies #translapt #arabic #persian #turkish #Ottoman

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Natalie · @natalie
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Welcome to Professor @jonhoover, a well-known expert in @islamicstudies, here in the Fediverse.

cc @religion

#IslamicStudies #quranicstudies #arabic

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Ghilène HAZEM · @GhileneH
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