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About
Adil Salahi is a contemporary scholar, author, and translator whose work has helped bring the Islamic tradition to English-speaking readers. Trained in the classical sciences under teachers in Damascus, in the long-standing tradition of study and certification, he combined that grounding with a background in English literature. For many years he taught at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education in England.
The greater part of his career was in broadcasting and print journalism. He worked with Syrian radio and the BBC Arabic Service, contributed to the Arabic daily al-Sharq al-Awsat, and for more than thirty years wrote the full-page column "Islam in Perspective" for the Saudi newspaper Arab News.
As an author, Salahi is best known for Muhammad: Man and Prophet, a widely read life of the Prophet that has gone through many printings and appeared in several languages, and for the companion study Muhammad: His Character and Conduct, as well as Pioneers of Islamic Scholarship. His translations include Sayyid Qutb's eighteen-volume Qur'anic commentary Fi Zilal al-Qur'an (In the Shade of the Qur'an) and an English rendering of the Qur'an. His other writings range across hadith studies, Qur'anic sciences, and questions of family and society, reflecting a lifelong concern to explain Islam clearly to a modern audience.
The greater part of his career was in broadcasting and print journalism. He worked with Syrian radio and the BBC Arabic Service, contributed to the Arabic daily al-Sharq al-Awsat, and for more than thirty years wrote the full-page column "Islam in Perspective" for the Saudi newspaper Arab News.
As an author, Salahi is best known for Muhammad: Man and Prophet, a widely read life of the Prophet that has gone through many printings and appeared in several languages, and for the companion study Muhammad: His Character and Conduct, as well as Pioneers of Islamic Scholarship. His translations include Sayyid Qutb's eighteen-volume Qur'anic commentary Fi Zilal al-Qur'an (In the Shade of the Qur'an) and an English rendering of the Qur'an. His other writings range across hadith studies, Qur'anic sciences, and questions of family and society, reflecting a lifelong concern to explain Islam clearly to a modern audience.
