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David Benjamin Keldani (1867 – c.1940), later known as Abd al-Ahad Dawud (Arabic: عبد الأحد داود, romanized: Abd al-Aḥad Dāwūd) was a Chaldean Catholic priest who converted to Islam. He is famous for his book Muhammad in Bible. [1]
Additionally, Muslims also honor David for having received the divine revelation of the Zabur . [4] [5] Dawud is considered one of the most important people in Islam. Mentioned sixteen times in the Quran, David appears in the Islamic scripture as a link in the chain of prophets who preceded Muhammad. [6]
David Benjamin Keldani – former Catholic priest who converted to Islam and changed his name to Abd ul-Aḥad Dāwūd [72] Nuh Ha Mim Keller – Islamic scholar who converted from Catholicism to agnosticism to Sunni Islam [73] Rebeka Koha – Latvian weightlifter, two time junior world champion and two time European champion. [74]
Muslim tradition maintains that the Zabur mentioned in the Quran is the Psalms of Dawud (David in Islam). [ 1 ] The Christian monks and ascetics of pre-Islamic Arabia may be associated in pre-Islamic Arabic poetry with texts called mazmour , which in other contexts may refer to palm leaf documents . [ 2 ]
The Quran mentions the Zabur, interpreted as being the Book of Psalms, [14] as being the holy scripture revealed to King David . Scholars have often understood the Psalms to have been holy songs of praise, and not a book administering law. [15] The current Psalms are still praised by many Muslim scholars. [16]
The Kitāb al-wāḍiḥ was translated into Latin in the 13th century under the title Liber denudationis sive ostensionis aut patefaciens ('Book of Denuding or Exposing, or the Discloser'). [19] It is preserved in whole or in part in four Arabic manuscripts [ 20 ] and in one Latin manuscript.
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The Holy Quran with English translation and commentary is a 5 volume commentary of the Quran published in 1963 by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. [1] It was prepared by a board of translators consisting of Maulvi Sher Ali, Mirza Bashir Ahmad and Malik Ghulam Farid.