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Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley (born 1948) is a Muslim author and translator of many classical Islamic books. [1] The WorldCat union catalog lists her as author or translator for "73 works in 172 publications in 3 languages and 855 library holdings". [1] She and her husband accepted Islam very early on and now have collaborated on an English translation of the Qur'an . [2]
According to her website, she was born in 1948 in the United States, received a BA in French and an MA in Near Eastern Languages from the University of California, Berkeley and attended the American University in Cairo on a fellowship. She converted to Islam in 1968. She is married to Shaykh Abdalhaqq Bewley, who is often co-translator of her books, and is the father of her three children. [3] [4]