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Hamid Choi (Choi Young-kil)

حامد تشوي يونغ كيل

Notable figure b. 1949 · Source: Professor Choi Young-Kil (Hamed), King Faisal Prize; report on the First Asian Arabism Conference, al-Istiʿrab al-Asyawi, vol. 2, no. 1 (2020), p. 166 · Second source: Qur'an translation of the week #185: The Qur'an in Korean, GloQur

Field: Qur'an translation

Affiliation

Translator of the Qur'an into Korean (King Fahd ed., 1997)

Biography

He studied Arabic at Hankuk University (1975) and then in Medina and Omdurman, taught at Myongji and Hankuk, and headed the Department of Arab Studies at Myongji. He translated the Qur'an into Korean (1988), issued in a bilingual edition by the King Fahd Complex (1997), and has written on translation between Korean and Arabic.