Muhammad Ali (writer)


Muhammad Ali was an Indian writer, scholar, and leading figure of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam.

Biography

Ali was born in Murar, Kapurthala State in 1874. He obtained a Master of Arts in English and a Bachelor of Laws in 1899. He joined the Ahmadiyya Movement in 1897 and dedicated his life to the service of the movement as part of what he saw as a restored and pristine Islam. He died in Karachi on October 13, 1951, and is buried in Lahore.
Marmaduke Pickthall, famous British Muslim and translator of the Quran into English, wrote a review of Muhammad Ali's book The Religion of Islam when this book was published in 1936. The review was published in the journal Islamic Culture of Hyderabad Deccan, whose editor was Pickthall. In this review Pickthall wrote:

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