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Richard Bell was a British
ArabistThis is an article about the western scholars known as Arabists, not the political movement Pan-Arabism.An Arabist is someone normally from outside the Arab World who specialises in the study of the Arabic language and Arab culture, and often Arabic literature.-Origins:Arabists began in medieval...
at the
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. Between 1937 and 1939 he published a translation of the
Qur'anThe Quran , also transliterated Qur'an, Koran, Alcoran, Qur’ān, Coran, Kuran, and al-Qur’ān, is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God . It is regarded widely as the finest piece of literature in the Arabic language...
, and in 1953 his
Introduction to the Qur'an was published (revised in 1970 by W. Montgomery Watt. Both works have been influential in Quranic studies in the west.
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