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416:. A disciple of Rashid Rida, the Salafi scholar and anti-colonial activist who began teaching Arabic at Bonn University in 1936 and became the head of the cultural department of the Foreign Office's Islamic Central Institute, as well as a Radio Berlin broadcaster in Arabic. In 1942, Amin al-Husayni sent him to Morocco to organize covert operations. 957:(1985). In it they used sustained interpolations to insert the interpretation of the Bin Baz school directly into the English rendition of the Qur'an. It was... used to inculcate Muslims and potential Muslims with militant interpretations of Islam artfully disguised, through parenthesis, as teachings of the Qur'an pure and simple. 495:, Arabic Professor at SOAS, London University, noted that he found the Hilali-Khan translation "repelling". The Director of King Fahd International Centre for Translation, King Saud University, Riyad, Dr. A. Al-Muhandis, expressed his dissatisfaction with the translation’s style and language, being too poor and simplistic. 956:
In the 1980's two Salafi scholars based in the Islamic University of Medina and working under the supervision of Bin Baz, Taqi al-Din al-Hilali and Muhsin Khan institutionalized an interpretation of Islam... through their work Translations of the meanings of the Noble Qur'an in the English Language
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The Hilali-Khan translation suffers from egregious errors and interpolations, advancing a particular orientation of Islam directly within the translation itself. Wherein prior translators largely constrained their efforts to translating the texts and footnoting their biases, Hilali-Khan elected to
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Hilali had many critics, especially among Western academics and Muslim scholars due to his translation of the Qur'an. Regarding his translation, Dr William S. Peachy, an American professor of English at College of Medicine, King Saud University at Qasseem, commented:
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school directly into the English rendition of the Qur'an. It has been accused of inculcating Muslims and potential Muslims with militant interpretations of Islam through parenthesis, as teachings of the Qur'an itself.
318:. Arrested and held for three days without charge, Hilali's release was secured and he fled Morocco. Shortly after he escaped the country, he was sentenced to death in absentia for subversive activity against the 428:, Hilali left Germany for French Morocco, which was rocked with calls for independence. He returned to Iraq in 1947, once again taking up a teaching position at the university in Baghdad. After the 621:
according to his children and students. Administrators of his website edited his biography to remove all references to his adherence to the school, with which modern-day Zahirites took issue.
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for Muslim intellectuals of Morocco to share ideas with those elsewhere, Hilali wrote a number of letters to the organization's magazine which were intercepted by authorities of the
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to verse Q 56.85 are indeed problematic. In the verse, the pronoun naḥnu (we) is translated as “Our angels”, in direct contrast with the literal meaning of the term.
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interpose those biases directly into the translated words, making the distinction between God's words and their own quite difficult. Translations such as,
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Henri Lauzière, M.A., The Evolution of the Salafiyya in the Twentieth Century through the life and thought of Taqi al-Din al-Hilali, iii
1250: 1022: 925: 469:, where he owned a house. Hilali died at June 22, 1987 (25th of Shawal in the year 1408 AH). He was buried in the neighborhood of 1270: 1188: 745: 884: 458:, of which Bin Baz was the president. Hilali accepted, living in Saudi Arabia for one more time between 1968 and 1974. 550:"I couldn't find an American Muslim who had anything good to say about that edition. I would call it a Wahhabi Koran." 1305: 949: 857: 432:, Hilali returned to a now-independent Kingdom of Morocco one more time. He was appointed to a teaching position at 150: 505:" more like a supremacist Muslim, anti-Semitic, anti-Christian polemic than a rendition of the Islamic scripture," 294:
only to drop out after being disappointed with the curriculum. Instead, Hilali spent time under the tutelage of
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and Sahih al-Bukhari. It has also been criticized for inserting the interpretations of the
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/04/AR2006090401107_3.html
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Return to Morocco, then Iraq, then Morocco, then Saudi Arabia, then Morocco
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and helped Hilali enroll (again, both as a student and a teacher) at the
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Prophets in the Quran: An Introduction to the Quran and Muslim Exegesis
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After finishing his duration of teaching in Mecca, Hilali enrolled in
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as both a student and a teacher, the most prominent of his own being
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Juergensmeyer, Mark; Kitts, Margo; Jerryson, Michael (2013-01-01).
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wrote to Hilali requesting that he take up a teaching position at
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QUR'AN: Playing into the Hands of the Extremists? (Khan Qur'an)
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attacks what he calls "grotesque misogyny" in the translation.
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And Our angels are nearer to him than you, but you do not see,
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In 1974, Hilali permanently retired from teaching, moving to
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Biography of the Sheikh, Dr. Muhammad Taqi ud-Din al-Hilali
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Scholars of other Sunni Islamic schools of jurisprudence
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Through the Looking Glass: Hilali-Khan Qur’an Translation
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at Civilizationist Dialogue. Wednesday, 13 July 2005.
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to teach in the Muslim holy land. Hilali taught and
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Dissertation Leiden University, 2015 815: 788: 773:Biography of Taqi ud-Din al-Hilali on 675: 673: 1256:Translators of the Quran into English 1004: 779: 737: 735: 733: 679:Dr. Abdul-Baqi al-Sayyid Abdul-Hadi, 545:, an Islamic think tank stated that, 325: 1276:Humboldt University of Berlin alumni 1189:Abu Abd al-Rahman Ibn Aqil al-Zahiri 1032:Muslim scholars of the Zahiri School 697:"Dr. Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din Al-Hilali" 1048:(founder of the school; d. 883/884) 683:. Alhady Alzahry, 13 November 2010. 670: 211: 13: 1281:University of al-Qarawiyyin alumni 730: 14: 1322: 1251:Alumni of the University of Wales 966: 789:Jassem, Zaidan Ali (April 2014). 743:How I came to know Dr. Al-Hilali? 440:in 1959 and later at a branch in 278:In his twenties, Hilali moved to 605: 931: 910: 889: 878: 862: 850: 836: 1165:Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali 767: 755: 703: 610:Hilali was an adherent of the 320:French protectorate of Morocco 223:Muḥammad Taqī al-Dīn al-Hilālī 1: 897:"» The Study Quran: A Review" 651: 456:Islamic University of Madinah 1271:20th-century Moroccan people 1088:Mundhir ibn Sa'īd al-Ballūṭī 1064:Muhammad bin Dawud al-Zahiri 741:Dr. Mohammed Amrani Hanchi, 631:Abd Al-Aziz Fawzan Al-Fawzan 543:Minaret of Freedom Institute 476: 249: 7: 624: 402:Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi 222: 10: 1327: 1142:Abu Bakr Ibn Sayyid al-Nās 973:Al-Hilali website (Arabic) 822:Mohammed, Khaleel (2005). 555:According to Mobeen Vaid: 348:Darul-uloom Nadwatul Ulama 306:. 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Index

Rissani
Morocco
Casablanca
Morocco
Islam
North Africa
Zahiri
Athari
Movement
Salafi
Political party
UNFP
Dawud al-Zahiri
Ibn Hazm
Muhammad Abu Khubza
Arabic
romanized
Salafi
Sahih Bukhari
Muhammad Muhsin Khan
Qur'an
The Noble Qur'an
Rissani
Morocco
Tafilalt
Sajalmasah
Algeria
Jurisprudence
Egypt
Al-Azhar University

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