Stepping off the busy London street and through the welcoming threshold of the UK’s oldest Islamic bookshop, and immediately I can breathe. The hurry and hustle of life, of the city, slip off as easily as my coat when I enter the hushed, comforting atmosphere of this literary sanctuary. For the past forty years, Ta-Ha […]
Muhtar Holland
Muhtar Holland was born in 1935, in Durham, England. He embraced Islam in 1969. He studied Arabic and Turkish at Oxford University before doing National Service in the Royal Navy learning Russian for two years.
He held academic posts at the University of Toronto, Canada; at the School of Oriental and African Studies in the University of London, England (with a five-month leave to study Islamic Law in Cairo, Egypt); and at the Universiti Kebangsaan in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (followed by a six-month sojourn in Indonesia). He also worked as Senior Research Fellow at the Islamic Foundation in Leicester, England, and as Director of the Nur al-Islam Translation Center in Valley Cottage, New York.
His freelance activities were mostly been devoted to writing and translating in various parts of the world, including Scotland and California.
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