M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (born 1933), is the King Fahd Professor of Islamic Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS)] in London, England, and editor of the Journal of Qur'anic Born in Egypt in 1930, Abdel Haleem learned the Qur'an by heart during his childhood, and is now a hafiz.[5][6] He studied at Al-Azhar University and completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge.[3] He has lectured at SOAS since 1971.[3] In 2004, Oxford University Press published his translation of the Qur'an into English. He has also published several other works in this field. Abdel Haleem was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's 2008 Birthday Honours, in recognition of his services to Arabic culture, literature and to inter-faith understandin