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 "label": {
  "en": "The Islamic Will (Dar Al Taqwa, 1995) — author biographies of Abdalhaqq and Aisha Bewley"
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 "summary": {
  "ar": "نبذتا المؤلفَين المطبوعتان في كتاب «الوصية الإسلامية» ⁦(دار التقوى، 1995)⁩: اعتناق عبد الحق بيولي الإسلام سنة 1968 ودراسته في المغرب وعمله مع عبد القادر الصوفي، ونبذة عائشة بيولي ⁦(مواليد 1948)⁩ وترجماتهما المشتركة.",
  "en": "The author biographies printed in The Islamic Will (Dar Al Taqwa, 1995): Abdalhaqq Bewley's acceptance of Islam in 1968, his study in Morocco and his work with Abdalqadir as-Sufi, and the biography of Aisha Bewley (b. 1948) with their joint translations."
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  "kind": "reference_data",
  "title": "The Islamic Will: A Practical Guide to Being Prepared for Death and Writing Your Will",
  "author": [
   {
    "family": "Bewley",
    "given": "Abdalhaqq"
   },
   {
    "family": "Bewley",
    "given": "Aisha"
   },
   {
    "family": "Thomson",
    "given": "Ahmad"
   }
  ],
  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
    [
     1995
    ]
   ]
  },
  "publisher": "Dar Al Taqwa (London)",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "The book's printed author biographies, read in full in this session in the publisher's standard form as reproduced by its booksellers. The Abdalhaqq biography states that he accepted Islam in 1968, spent several years in Morocco studying Islam, has worked with Shaykh Dr Abdalqadir as-Sufi establishing Muslim communities in Nigeria, the United States, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Spain, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom, and that 'in collaboration with his wife, the renowned Arabic translator Aisha Bewley' he produced The Noble Qur'an, Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik and Muhammad: The Messenger of Allah (ash-Shifa). The Aisha biography, printed alongside, styles The Noble Qur'an 'a translation of the meanings of the Qur'an produced with her husband, Abdalhaqq Bewley', gives her birth year as 1948, her Berkeley BA in French and MA in Near Eastern languages, her study at the American University in Cairo and her embrace of Islam in 1968. The biographies name no legal school or Sufi order for either of them.",
  "type": "book",
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  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)"
  }
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 "updated": "2026-11-06",
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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