Muhammad Ashraf (translator)
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Muhammad Ashraf is a publisher and distributor of Sunni Islamic literature based in Lahore, Pakistan.
Specialization
[edit]Ashraf publishes solely Sunni Islamic religious work and was associated with the Darul Uloom Deoband madrasah and the movement that arose there, the Deobandi.[citation needed]
Translations
[edit]Ashraf was the original publisher of the Abdullah Yusuf Ali translation of the Koran, The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary, famous for its copious missionary and apologetic footnotes (over 1200 pages), which for a long time has been used among English-speaking Muslims.[citation needed] An edited version of this Yusuf Ali translation was also subsidised for a brief period by the Saudi government.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Khaleel Mohammed: Assessing English Translations of the Qur'an