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Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “convert to islam and author or translator of many books on islam”. Today it says “muslim author and translator of many classical islamic books”.
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Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley (born 1948) is a Muslim author and translator of many classical Islamic books. The WorldCat union catalog lists her as author or translator for "73 works in 172 publications in 3 languages and 855 library holdings". She and her husband accepted Islam very early on and now have collaborated on an English translation of the Qur'an . Marked Word Order in the Qurān and its English Translations: Patterns and Motivations .
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “convert to islam and author or translator of many books on islam”. Today it says “muslim author and translator of many classical islamic books”. Read the current article and compare.
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convert to islam and author or translator of many books on islam
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muslim author and translator of many classical islamic books
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