Abdullah Yusuf Ali's Articles and Reviews

by K.K. Aziz

Abdullah Yusuf Ali' Articles And Reviews by K. K. Aziz

541 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Khursheed Kamal Aziz, better known as K. K. Aziz was born in December 1927, in village Ballamabad near Faisalabad. He was educated at the M. B. High School Batala, Forman Christian College and the Government College, Lahore, and the Victoria University of Manchester. He has been on the academic staff of the Government College, Lahore, and of the Universities of the Punjab, London, Cambridge, Khartoum and Heidelberg, and has delivered occasional lectures at the Universities of Karachi, Peshawar, Dacca, Islamabad, Hull, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Geneva, Oxford and Bergen.

During intervals snatched from teaching abroad he has served at home as Deputy Official Historian to the Government of Pakistan, Chairman of the National Commission on Historical and Cultural Research, and Special Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister (Z. A. Bhutto). Author of over a dozen books, he is a historian of rank with an international reputation.

Reviews

[Azhar Farooq · Rating 4 out of 5]

A collection of articles and essays which are completely different from the Yusuf Ali that most people know him as an expert in translating the holy Quran. Amazing how much knowledge he had with the resources available at the time.

[Abdushakour Adam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jazaka lahu khayr bro