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Asadullah Yate

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أسد الله ييت

British translator of classical Islamic texts, with a Cambridge doctorate (1987) on Ibn Rushd as a jurist. His translations include al-Mawardi's Al-Ahkam as-Sultaniyyah (Ta-Ha, 1996), Ibn Juzayy's Al-Qawanin al-Fiqhiyyah (Diwan Press) and Shabistari's Secret Garden; he has taught Arabic and fiqh at the Weimar Institute and served as imam-khateeb at the mosque of Stralsund in Germany.

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Translator · writer
Region
al-Andalus & Europe

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    Sources

    • Al-Ahkam as-Sultaniyyah (Ta-Ha, 1996) — translator's biography of Asadullah Yate
    • Al-Qawanin al-Fiqhiyyah, vol. 2 (Diwan Press, 2021) — author biography of Asadullah Yate
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    islam.museum contributors. “Asadullah Yate”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/asadullah-yate/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-06.

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