is Muhammad Asad of the most prominent men of the West who converted to Islam during the last century, and left their imprint distinct on the Arab and Islamic culture and European alike, Born (Leopold Weiss) Jewish former Austrian Empire Hungarian in 1900, and died in Spain in 1992. A writer and journalist and intellectual, linguistic and social critic and reformer, translator and diplomat and traveler Muslim. He studied philosophy at the University of Vienna; has worked reporter in the Middle of the Arab and Muslim world, visited Cairo, then moved to Jerusalem, and then engaged in in-depth study of Islam, until he decided to shift from Judaism to Islam in 1926, and changed his name, and his clothing, and language.By Muhammad Asad after his conversion to Islam Hajj pilgrimage, also participated in the jihad with Omar al-Mukhtar in Libya, visited Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan and the republics of the Soviet Islamic, then go to the Indian subcontinent, which was under British occupation, and there he met the poet Muhammad Iqbal, who suggested the idea of the establishment of an independent Islamic state in India, which later became Pakistan, has persuaded Muhammad Iqbal to stay and work to help Muslims to establish that state. Immediately after Pakistans independence in 1947, and in recognition of his efforts was awarded the Muhammad Asad Pakistani nationality. then served as president of the Institute of Islamic Studies in Lahore, where he authored books that brought him to the ranks of the brightest thinkers of the Islamists in the modern era. Months and wrote his book Muhammad Asad feat (Islam at the Crossroads) and we are going to submit it to the reader .. has a book (The Road to Mecca), and has translated the Holy Quran and Sahih Bukhari into English. It was Muhammad Asad rarely models of travelers in the world of the earth, and in the world of thought and spirit ..
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