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Mohamed Ali Abdel Jalil
Syrian-French writer and translator (born 1973)
Mohamed Ali Abdel Jalil (محمد علي عبد الجليل), Syrian essayist, calligraph, critic, researcher islamologist and translator, French and Arabic-speaking, born in Damascus in 1973 in a peasant family from Damascus Suburb (Rif Dimashq Governorate) (village: Rankous). He studied at the Damascus University. He is a member of the Maaber Committee (The magazine and Publishing houseof Maaber http://www.maaber.org/). He proposes the idea that the Qur'an is a text translated into Arabic from other dominant languages and cultures.