Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley (born 1948) is a convert to Islam and author or translator of many books on Islam. 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 collaborated on an English translation 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.: , sing. ...

''.

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

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

and attended

the American University in Cairo The American University in Cairo (AUC; ar, الجامعة الأمريكية بالقاهرة, Al-Jāmi‘a al-’Amrīkiyya bi-l-Qāhira) is a private research university in Cairo, Egypt. The university offers American-style learning programs ...

on a fellowship. She converted to Islam in 1968. She is married to Hajj 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

Muhammad al-Arabi al-Darqawi Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Arabi al-Darqawi (; 1760–1823) was a Moroccan Sufi leader of the Shadhili tariqa and the author of letters concerning the dhikr he preached and instructions for daily life. He stressed noninvolvement in worldly affairs ...

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

Malik ibn Anas Malik ibn Anas ( ar, مَالِك بن أَنَس, ‎ 711–795 CE / 93–179 AH), whose full name is Mālik bin Anas bin Mālik bin Abī ʿĀmir bin ʿAmr bin Al-Ḥārith bin Ghaymān bin Khuthayn bin ʿAmr bin Al-Ḥārith al-Aṣbaḥī ...

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

Ibn Arabi Ibn ʿArabī ( ar, ابن عربي, ; full name: , ; 1165–1240), nicknamed al-Qushayrī (, ) and Sulṭān al-ʿĀrifīn (, , 'Sultan of the Knowers'), was an Arab Andalusian Muslim scholar, mystic, poet, and philosopher, extremely influenti ...

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

Al-Qurtubi Imam Abū ʿAbdullāh Al-Qurṭubī or Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr al-Anṣārī al-Qurṭubī ( ar, أبو عبدالله القرطبي) (121429 April 1273) was an Andalusian jurist, Islamic scholar and muhaddith. He ...

. 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