Abdullah yusuf ali biography

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    This is the story of a man who was born into privilege, excelled in studies, served as a high government tjänsteman in British India, wrote the monumental translation and commentary of the Quran and died a homeless and penniless man in London.

    Abdullah Yusuf Ali was born in Surat, India, in 1878 to a merchant family of Dawoodi Bohra Shia Muslims. According to his own words, he was taught Arabic from early childhood, and by age fem he had finished reading the Quran. He attended Anjuman-e-Islam School in Bombay where another Indian Muslim by the name of Muhammad Ali Jinnah was his schoolmate. After receiving BA from Bombay University in 1891, he won a Bombay Presidency scholarship to study at Cambridge, from where he received another BA and a law degree. He was called to the dryckesställe at Lincoln’s Inn, where his grade school classmate Muhammad Ali Jinnah was his contemporary – as was Muhammad Iqbal (later known as Allama Iqbal).



    He passed the Indian Civil Service examination with distin
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    The year 2021-22 marks the sesquicentennial of Allama Abdullah Yusuf Ali. His remarkable life, caught between many worlds, was chaotic and turbulent, with its triumphs, tribulations, and a lasting legacy.

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    Introduction

    In December 1953, six months after Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation, London experienced another severe winter. Around the same time in the previous year, the city had suffered the Great Smog. Wednesday, the 9th, was freezing cold. Moving around was difficult. In the evening, in Trafalgar Square, Westminster, the police found an old man in tattered clothes, destitute and disoriented, on the steps of a house. He had a suitcase full of papers but no money in his pockets. They admitted him to the Westminster Hospital, which discharged him the next day. A London City Council home for the elderly, in nearby Dovehouse Street, Chelsea, took him in. The same day, he suffered a heart attack and was rushed to St Stephen’s Hospital. He died soon thereafter.

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    Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    ABDULLAH YUSUF ALI (1872-1953) was an Indian-British barrister and Muslim scholar who wrote a number of books about Islam including a translation of the Qur'an. A supporter of the British war effort during the Great War, Ali received the CBE in 1917 for his services during the war.

    Ali was born in western India on 4 April 1872 and was educated at Wilson College, Mumbai and St John’s College, Cambridge. He obtained a post in the Indian Civil Service and in 1896 he was called to the Bar by Lincoln’s Inn. Ali served in various districts of the United Provinces, including two short periods in the Finance Department of the Government of India.

    In 1905, whilst in London, he gave a series of lectures at the Passmore Edwards Institute which provided the nucleus for his book, Life and Labour of the People of India, which appeared in 1907.

    In 1914, for reasons of health and due to family anxieties, Ali was allowed to retire from the Indian Civil Service and he settl