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Muhammad Abdel-Haleem

b. 1930

Professor of Islamic studies

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Born 1930. Muhammad Abdel-Haleem is a British islamicist, orientalist and africanist.

Muhammad A. S. Abdel Haleem (, born 05/06/1933), , is an Egyptian Islamic studies scholar and the King Fahd Professor of Islamic Studies at the SOAS University of London in London, England. He is the editor of the Journal of Qur'anic Studies.

Biography Born in Al-Isdiyya, a village in Abu Hammad in Egypt in 1933, Abdel Haleem learned the Quran by heart during his childhood. He studied at Al-Azhar University and completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge. He has lectured at SOAS since 1971. in recognition of his services to Arabic culture, literature, and inter-faith understanding.

Works 2006 with Robinson, Danielle (eds.), The Moral World of the Qur'an, London: IB Tauris. 2006 "Islam, Religion of the Environment" in Cotran, E. and Lau, M. (eds.), Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, Netherlands: E.J. Brill, pp. 403–410. 2006 "Arabic and Islam" in Brown, Keith (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 34–37. 2006 "Qur'an and Hadith" in Winter, Tim (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2005 with Badawi, Elsaid M., Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage, E. J. Brill. 2004 The Qur'an: a New Translation, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics Hardcovers Series). 2002 "The Prophet Muhammad as a Teacher: implications for Hadith literature" in Islamic Quarterly vol. XLVI (2), pp. 121–137. 1999 Understanding the Qur'an: themes and style, London: I B Tauris. 1999 "Human Rights in Islam and the United Nations Instruments" in Cotran, E. and Sherif, A. (eds.), Democracy, the Rule of Law, and Islam, London: Kluwer Law International, pp. 435–453. 1995 (as translator) Chance or Creation? God's design in the Universe (attributed to Jahiz, translated and introduced), Reading, Berkshire: Garnet. 1994 "Qu'ranic Orthography: the written presentation of the recited text of the Qur'an" in Islamic Quarterly, vol. 38 (3), pp. 171–192.

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Born
1930
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Occupation
Islamicist, orientalist, Africanist
Nationality
Employers
SOAS, University of London
Awards
Officer of the Order of the British Empire; Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists
Also known as
M. A. Abdel Haleem

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Professor of Islamic studies

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Muhammad Abdel-Haleem was born in 1930.

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Muhammad Abdel-Haleem is an islamicist, orientalist and africanist.

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Muhammad Abdel-Haleem is British.

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· Wikipedia: Muhammad Abdel-Haleem

· Wikidata: Q12240689

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