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Ali won the King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies in 2000. [3] While most of his books and essays are in English, he has translated Jawhart al-Bukhari from Arabic into Bengali and published a word for word English translation of the Qur'an [4] in addition to Arabic essays such as Orientalists' Claims concerning the Glorious Qur'an ...
Muhammad Mohar Ali (1932–2007) (King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies in 2000) Shankha Ghosh (1932–2021) Nikhil Sarkar (Sripantha) (1932–2004) Adrish Bardhan (1932–2019) Mani Shankar Mukherjee (born 1933) Amartya Sen (born 1933) Anil Kumar Dutta (1933–2006) Sandipan Chattopadhyay (1933–2005) Samir Roychoudhury (1933 ...
William Montgomery Watt (14 March 1909 – 24 October 2006) was a Scottish historian and orientalist. An Anglican priest, Watt served as Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh from 1964 to 1979 and was also a prominent contributor to the field of Quranic studies.
The Markaz Khidmah As-Sunna Wa As-Seerah (Centre for the Service of the Sunnah and Sirah) published in English in 2 large volumes “Sirat Al-Nabi (Saw) And The Orientalists with the special reference to the writings of William Muir, D.S. Margoliouth and W. Montgomery Watt” by Muhammad Mohar Ali. SafiurRahman Mubarakpuri reviewed this work.
Muhammad Ali (/ ɑː ˈ l iː /; [2] born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer and social activist. [a] A global cultural icon, widely known by the epithet, "The Greatest," he is frequently cited as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time.
Muhammad Ali was born in 1878 at Rampur in North-Western Provinces, British India. [4] [8] [9] He was born to a wealthy family with roots in the city of Najibabad. His father, Abdul Ali Khan, died when he was five years old. [10] [11] His brothers were Shaukat Ali, who became a leader of the Khilafat Movement, and Zulfiqar Ali.
In 2019 Men's Health named Ali: A Life the 23rd best sports book of all time. [3] In 2020, Esquire called Ali one of the 35 best sports books ever written. [6] In a review, Joyce Carol Oates of The New York Times noted that "...As Muhammad Ali's life was an epic of a life so Ali: A Life is an epic of a biography."
It is alleged that Ali was not involved, and not interested, in the writing of this book to the extent that he never read it till after it was published. [5] It is also alleged that before any material in this book was submitted to the publisher, each page had to be approved by Herbert Muhammad who exercised effective censorship on the contents of the book.