Muhammad A. S. Abdel Haleem

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محمد عبد الحليم سعيد

1930 CE · 1349 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Egyptian scholar of Qur'anic studies, King Fahd Professor of Islamic Studies at SOAS, University of London, and editor of the Journal of Qur'anic Studies. He memorised the Qur'an in childhood in the village of al-Isdiyya in Sharqia, studied at Al-Azhar and Dar al-Ulum and took his PhD at Cambridge, and has lectured at SOAS since 1971. Oxford University Press published his translation, The Qur'an: A New Translation, in 2004; he was appointed OBE in 2008.