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The Muslim 500, a newspaper that profiles the most powerful Muslims, has named Aisha Bewley, a well-known Arabic-English translator, Muslim lady of the year for 2023.
The English-speaking Muslim community now has access to classical Islamic literature written in Arabic thanks to Ms Bewley, who is renowned for translating Islamic classics into English.
“Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley (b.1948) is one of the world’s most prolific and accomplished translators of classical Islamic works from Arabic to English,” stated the report.
The Muslim 500 publication added that since converting to Islam in 1968, she “has spent the past five decades faithfully learning the Islamic tradition and making its key texts available to the global English-speaking Muslim community, sometimes in collaboration with her husband, Abdalhaqq Bewley, with whom she translated the noble Qur’an.”
Married to Hajj Abdalhaqq Bewley, Ms Bewley has written and translated a number of works on Islam to open up the faith to a wider audience because it had previously only been available in Arabic.