Lecture on Abdullah Yusuf Ali (Qur'an Translator)

There will be a lecture on Abdullah Yusuf Ali (Qur'an Translator) by Dr M A Sherif this coming sunday. Admission is free.

This inaugural lecture in memory of Abdullah Yusuf Ali is being held 55 years after his death on 10 December, 1953.

Organised by Islamic Book Trust, it is the first of its kind to commemorate the man who gave one of the most widely distributed works in the English-speaking world, The Meaning of the Holy Qur’an: Text, Translation and Commentary, first published in 1934.

The lecture will be delivered by Dr M A Sherif from the United Kingdom, author of Searching for Solace: A Biography of Abdullah Yusuf Ali.

A collection of various English translations of the Qur’an will be on display, as well as an exhibition on the life and times of Abdullah Yusuf Ali.

Admission is free and open to public.

Date: SUNDAY December 14, 2008
Time: 2:45pm
Venue: Conference Hall, International Institute of Advanced Islamic
Studies (IAIS) Malaysia, Jalan Elmu, Off Jalan Universiti, Kuala
Lumpur(former INTAN building, next to Mahsa College). [near Universtiy of Malaya and UIA PJ mosque]



Details? http://www.ibtbooks.com and http://www.ibtbooks.com/lecture/