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

He was a journalist who, after travels in the #MENA region where he struck up a friendship with the #Sauds, reverted to #Islam. He then went to #Pakistan for a while where he worked to help create an #Islamic 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 #Spain. 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.

https://sufism.org/origins/quran-islam/the-legacy-of-muhammad-asad-2

#Translations #Tafsir #QuranicStudies #Converts #Reverts #Muslims

Nicolai #Sinai's "Key Terms of the Qur'an: A Critical Dictionary" (Princeton, 2023) is partially accessible via Google Books. #IslamicStudies #QuranicStudies

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.

https://www.microsoft.com/de-de/microsoft-teams/join-a-meeting?rtc=1

Meeting ID: 355 926 814 82
Passcode: 4dJRfD

Share this information with all those interested in #dh #BERT #quranicstudies etc.

PhD position at the Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies in #Muenster, 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 #Mediterranean (1400–1750)

https://www.uni-muenster.de/ArabistikIslam/translapt/call/index.html

#quranicstudies #islamicstudies #translapt #arabic #persian #turkish #ottoman @islamicstudies @religion @phdlife @phdstudents

CC @gloqur

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

cc @religion
#islamicstudies #quranicstudies #arabic

#SBL #2022AnnualMeeting #Denver #IQSA #IslamicStudies #QuranicStudies

Highlights from this year's program.