Zohurul Hoque ( bn, জহূরুল হক; 11 October 1926 – 18 January 2017) was an Indian Islamic scholar and doctor known for his translations 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. ...

into the

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, Assamese and English languages. He later moved to

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Career

He published a

translation of the

in 1986, after working on it for 12 years. He had started to work on an Assamese translation before the Bengali translation was complete. Hoque published the Assamese translation of The Quran in three volumes. He started work on an English translation in 1993. He published a book with more than 1250 pages titled ''Translation and Commentary on The Holy Quran'' on April 1, 2000. It was part of the ''Holy Quran Pub Project''. The Assamese translation, published by Bina Library, Guwahati, Assam, is now in its sixth reprint. A new edition of his Bangla translation of the Quran has been published in June 2014.

Death

He died in

on 18 January 2017, and was buried at the Central Public Graveyard in

Al Amarat Al ‘Āmrāt ( ar, العامرات) or Al Amirat is a city in Muscat, in northeastern Oman. Al Amarat is the fifth (out of six) most populated province in the Muscat Governorate after Muscat itself, As Seeb, Bawshar and Muttrah. Al Amarat is ...

References

External links

A short biography

Al-Quran
project includes Zohurul Hoque's Bengali

Quran The Quran (, ; Standard Arabic: , Classical 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 in Islam, revelation from God in Islam, ...

translation.
Bengali translation of Quran
by Dr. Zohurul Hoque (online)

an

translations of Quran by Dr. Zohurul Hoque (pdf) {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoque, Zohorul 1926 births 2017 deaths Indian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam University of Calcutta alumni 20th-century Indian translators Translators of the Quran into English Quran translators Translators to Assamese Translators of the Quran into Bengali University of Michigan School of Public Health alumni Bengali Muslim scholars of Islam 21st-century Bengalis People from Karimganj district 20th-century Bengalis Deaths in Oman Omani people of Bengali descent