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Yosef Yoel Rivlin

يوسف يوئيل ريفلين

Notable figure 1889–1971 · Source: Rivlin, Joseph Joel, Encyclopaedia Judaica, Encyclopedia.com; Dirasat Istishraqiyya, no. 1, al-Bahnasi, p. 269 · Second source: Hebrew rendition of Koran wins Moslem praise, JTA (14 Feb 1937)

Field: Qur'an translation

Affiliation

Hebrew translator of the Qur'an and the Arabian Nights

Biography

A Jew born in Jerusalem, Palestine, he studied Arabic at the University of Frankfurt and taught at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem from 1927. His translation of the Qur'an appeared in 1936, and he also translated the Thousand and One Nights.