Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley (born 1948) is a Muslim author and translator of many classical Islamic books. The

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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 ''

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''.

Life

According to her website, she was born in 1948 in the United States, received a BA in French and an MA in Near Eastern Languages from the

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and attended

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on a fellowship. She converted to Islam in 1968. She is married to Shaykh Abdalhaqq Bewley, who is often co-translator of her books, and is the father of her three children.

Selected works

Translations

* (tr.) ''The Darqawi Way: Letters of Mawlay al-Darqawi'' by

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. Norwich: Diwan Press, 1981. * (tr.) ''Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik ibn Anas: The First Formulation of Islamic Law'' by

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. London & New York: Kegan Paul International, 1989. *(tr. with Abdalhaqq Bewley) ''The noble Qurʼan: a new rendering of its meaning in English''. Norwich: Diwan Press, 1999. * ''The Madinan Way: the soundness of the basic premises of the School of the People of Madina'' by

Ibn Taymiyyah Ibn Taymiyya (; 22 January 1263 – 26 September 1328)Ibn Taymiyya, Taqi al-Din Ahmad, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam. http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195125580.001.0001/acref-9780195125580-e-959 was a Sunni Muslim ulama, ...

. 2000. * (tr.) ''Ibn al-Arabi on the mysteries of bearing witness to the oneness of God and prophethood of Muhammad'' by

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. 2002. * (tr.) ''Tafsir al-Qurtubi: classical commentary of the Holy Qurʼan'' by

Al-Qurtubi Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr al-Anṣārī al-Qurṭubī () (121429 April 1273) was an Andalusian Sunni Muslim polymath, Maliki jurisconsult, mufassir, muhaddith and an expert in the Arabic language. Prominent scholar ...

. 2003.

Other works

* (with Abdalhaqq Bewley and Ahmad Thomson) ''The Islamic will: a practical guide to being prepared for death and writing your will according to the Shariʻa of Islam and English law''. London : Dar Al Taqwa, 1995. * ''A glossary of Islamic terms''. 1998. * ''Islam: the empowering of women''. 1999. * ''Muslim women: a biographical dictionary''. 2004.

References

External links

Aisha Bewley's Islamic Home Page
Converts to Islam Muslim writers Translators from Arabic 1948 births Living people UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni American Muslims {{translator-stub Women scholars of Islam Scholars of Sufism Translators of the Quran into English