Muhammad Habib Shakir (1866 in

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– 1939 in Cairo) ( ar, محمد حبيب شاكر) was an Egyptian judge, born in Cairo and a graduate from Al-Azhar University.

Life

Sheikh Mohammed Shakir b. Ahmad b. ‘Abd al-Qadir was born in 1866 CE in

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, a city in Upper

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. He studied and graduated from Al-Azhar University. He died in 1939 in Cairo. His son, Sheikh

Ahmad Muhammad Shakir Ahmad Muhammad Shakir ( ar, أحمد محمد شاكر, Aḥmad Muḥammad Shākir) (January 29, 1892, Cairo – June 14, 1958) was an Egyptian Islamic scholar of hadith. He is the son of Muḥammad Shākir ibn Aḥmad, an Islamic scholar of A ...

, wrote his biography in a treatise entitled ''Mohammed Shakir ‘Alam min A‘lam al-‘Asr''

Positions

* Sudan's Supreme Judge for four years (1890-1893) *Dean of Alexandria's Scholars *Al-Azhar Secretary General ("Wakil") and a member of its board of directors *Member of

Al-Azhar Al-Azhar Mosque ( ar, الجامع الأزهر, al-Jāmiʿ al-ʾAzhar, lit=The Resplendent Congregational Mosque, arz, جامع الأزهر, Gāmiʿ el-ʾazhar), known in Egypt simply as al-Azhar, is a mosque in Cairo, Egypt in the historic ...

Corps of High Scholars *Member of

legislative Society ("al-Jam‘iyya al-Tashri‘iyya")

Works

*"Al-Durus al-Awwaliyya fi al-‘Aqa’id al-Diniyya" *"Al-Qawl al-Fasl fi Tarjamat al-Qur’an al-Karim" *"Al-Sira al-Nabawiyya"

Qur'an controversy

Mohammed Habib Shakir has been stated by many internet sources as "a well known translator of the

Qur'an The Quran (, ; Standard Arabic: , Quranic Arabic: , , 'the recitation'), also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation from God. It is organized in 114 chapters (pl.: , s ...

into

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." He has been associated with the translator M. H. Shakir of the translation published by Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an. However this idea is contradicted by two pieces of evidence that have now come to light: # There is strong evidence that Mohammed Habib Shakir was against the translation of the Qur'an and considered the rendering of the Arabic into any other language unlawful. # There is strong evidence that M. H. Shakir, the translator, is actually a pen name for Mohammedali Habib Shakir the son of Habib Esmail of The House of Habib. The translator of this edition was in fact a Pakistani Shi'a.

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