Alfred Guillaume

Alfred Guillaume (8 November 1888 – 30 November 1965) was a British Christian Arabist, scholar of the Hebrew Bible and Islam. Quotes The Qurān is one of the world’s classics which cannot be translated without grave loss. It has a rhythm of peculiar beauty and a cadence that charms the ear. Many Christian Arabs speak of its style with warm admiration, and most Arabists acknowledge its excellence… indeed it may be affirmed that within the literature of the Arabs, wide and fecund as it is both in poetry and in elevated prose, there is nothing to compare with it. Islam (1954), Penguin Books: 1962, pp. 73-4. External links Category:1888 births Category:1966 deaths Category:Orientalists Category:Islamic scholars Category:Non-fiction authors from the United Kingdom