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Dr Muhammad Isa Waley

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Muhammad Isa Waley is a British editor, translator, and researcher specializing in the literature of Muslim spirituality in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, and also in Islamic manuscript studies. Born in Cambridge in 1948, Waley converted to Islam in London in 1974. He has an MA in Oriental Studies from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Persian literature from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. For 45 years he was Curator of Persian and Turkish manuscripts and books at the British Museum and later the British Library, and has worked as a consultant and/or editor for many organizations, publishers, and individuals.

His main research specializations are the classical verse and prose literature of Islamic spirituality in Persian, Arabic, and Turkish; and the palaeography, codicology, illumination and cataloguing of Islamic manuscripts. He has written, contributed to, or translated a number of publications in these fields. The subject of his Ph.D. thesis was the Dīvān or lyrical poems of Jalal al-Din Rumi.

Among the many works edited by Dr Waley are: Islamic Codicology: an Introduction to the Study of Manuscripts in Arabic Script; the English translation of Tafsīr al-Jalālayn; the Kitāb al-Adhkār of Imam al-Nawawī; and numerous articles for Encyclopaedia Islamica and the Integrated Encyclopedia of Qur'an. His published translations include the Chihil Kalima (Forty Hadiths) of 'Abd al-Raḥmān Jāmī, and the Mawlid of Imam al-Barzanjī, a paean on the Blessed Prophet's Birth. He has also translated and commented upon the poetry of Mevlana Rumi in A Treasury of Rumi and translated Imam al-Ghazālī's Book of Contemplation (Kitaāb al-Tafakkur), Book 39 of his Iḥyā' 'ulūm al-dīn.

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