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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 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.
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.
Muhammad Ali (/ m ɔː ˈ l ɑː n ə m ʊ ˈ h ɑː m ə d ɑː ˈ l iː /; Arabic: محمد علي ; 1874 – 13 October 1951) was a British Indian, and a Pakistani writer, scholar, and leading figure of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement.
Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times is a biography of the boxer Muhammad Ali, written in 1991 by Thomas Hauser. [1] It won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award in that year. Critical reception
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.
King of the World is a 1998 biography of Muhammad Ali written by David Remnick with a special focus on the period in Ali's life from his victory in the Olympics to his second fight with Sonny Liston. [1] It has been described as "a book about a boxer, not a book about boxing." [2]
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."