The Message of the Qur’an: The full account of the revealed Arabic text accompanied by parallel transliteration (Muhammad Asad)
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Product Description Muhammad Asad, born Leopold Weiss, was an Austro-Hungarian journalist, traveler, writer, political theorist, and diplomat, who converted to Islam after traveling across the Arab World as a journalist. During his stay in Saudi Arabia, he spent time with Bedouins and enjoyed the close company of the state’s founder, Ibn Saud. On his visit to India, Asad became friends with the Muslim poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal, who persuaded him to abandon his eastward travels and “help elucidate the intellectual premises of the future Islamic state (Pakistan)”. Asad rose to prominence as a writer with his best-selling autobiography, The Road to Mecca. Later, after seventeen years of scholarly research, he published his magnum opus: The Message of the Qur’an. Reviews "the most helpful and instructive version of the Qur'an that we have in English. This remarkable man has done what he set out to do, and it may be doubted whether his achievement will ever be surpassed." Gai Eaton
