Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Abdullah Yusuf Ali CBE, MA, LL.M, FRSA, FRSL (14 April 1872[1] – 10 December 1953) was a British-Indian barrister and Shi'i scholar in the Dawoodi Bohra tradition who wrote a number of books about Islam including a translation of the Qur'an. A supporter of the British war effort during World War I, Ali received the CBE in 1917 for his services to that cause. He died in London in 1953. There has been 30 printed versions of his Quran translation. Ali was a Shia in the Dawoodi Bohra tradition. The Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project, whose "particular emphasis [is] on the Twelver Shi'ah Islamic school of thought", has analysed printings of Ali's translations to ascertain whether they have maintained Ali's understandings of the original Arabic text. They have determined there have been changes. In Saudi Arabia, The Presidency of Islamic Researches, has modified the original Yusuf Ali translation