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Muhammad Asad

Muhammad Asad was an influential 20th century European Muslim scholar who authored "The Message of the Qur'an", a translation and commentary of the Quran. Asad, born Jewish but later converting to Islam, spent 17 years on the work to provide a translation for "People Who Think." The book is considered one of the most influential modern Quranic translations, first published in 1980.

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Muhammad Asad

Muhammad Asad was an influential 20th century European Muslim scholar who authored "The Message of the Qur'an", a translation and commentary of the Quran. Asad, born Jewish but later converting to Islam, spent 17 years on the work to provide a translation for "People Who Think." The book is considered one of the most influential modern Quranic translations, first published in 1980.

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Message of the Qur’an

By Muhammad Asad
Who is Muhammad
Asad?
• Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss)
was a Jewish-born Austro-
Hungarian Muslim journalist,
traveler, writer, linguist, thinker,
political theorist, diplomat and
Islamic scholar. Asad was one of
the most influential European
Muslims of the 20th century.
• Born: July 12, 1900, Ukraine
• Died: February 23, 1992, Granada,
Spain
• He was born Leopold Weiss in Lwow, Galicia now in Poland the son of
a Jewish barrister and grandson of an orthodox rabbi.
• “He traveled extensively in the Mashreq and Maghreb… The turning
point came in 1926 when he converted to Islam….
• “Asad was saddened by the intellectual insularity of the Muslim
world, the intolerance of the extremists, and was a powerful advocate
of the rights of Muslim women.
Books
• Road to Mecca-
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEL_-
sf1cDw&list=PL07F7VmjccuKLQcm-KokKl3kJvhXhEdSM
• The Message of Qur’an
• Muhammad Asad: Why I Converted From
Judaism To Islam NOT Christianity!
Interview • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuoRAImu
F1M
The Message of the
Qur’an
• http://www.muhammad-
asad.com/Message-of-Quran.pdf
• Asad meant to devote two years to completing the translation and
the commentary but ended up spending seventeen. In the opening,
he dedicates his effort to "People Who Think."
• The book was first published in Gibraltar, Spain, in 1980, and has since
been translated into several other languages. It is considered one of
the most influential Quranic Translations of the modern age.

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