Akhund Azaz Allah Muttalawi
Akhund Azaz Allah Muttalawi (Urdu: آخوند أعزاز الله ) was a Muslim theologian from Sindh. Akhund Azaz is considered to be the first person who translated the Quran from the Arabic to the Sindhi.
According to Sindhi tradition the first translation was made by in 270 AH / 883 CE by an Arab scholar. This one might be the same as the one mentioned above. The first extant Sindhi translation was done by Akhund 'Azaz Allah Mutta'lawi (1160-124011747-1824) and first published in Gujrat in 1870. The first to appear in print was by Muhammad Siddiq (Lahore 1867).[1]
Sindhi translators of Quran
- First ever translation of Quran to any other language was in Sindhi language by Imam Abul Hassan bin Mohammad Sadiq Al-Sindhi Al-Madni.
- Maulana Abdul Waheed Jan Sirhindi, a contemporary scholar and writer of Sunni Islam. Prof. Mir Muhammad Soomro (author of several books in Sindhi, Urdu, and Persian languages) wrote a Tafseer Riyaz-ul-Qur'an in Sindhi language on this translation.[2]
- Allama Ali Khan Abro, wrote Sindhi translation of Quran and intended to give the Qur'an a practical contemporary interpretation also wrote separate translation for non-Muslims from the request of Sindh's great freedom fighter Maulana Taj Mohammad Amrothi.
- Allama Makhdoom Muhammad Hashim Thattvi
- Badi' ud-Din Shah al-Rashidi
- Maulana Ghullam Mustafa Qasmi's Sindhi Translation of Holy Quran.
- Maulvi Ahmad Mallah's poetic Sindhi Translation of Holy Quran.
- Maulana Abdul Karim Qureshi of Bair Shareef District Kambar Shahdadkot- Sindhi Translation of Holy Quran.
- Maulana Taj Mohammad Amroti's Sindhi Translation of Holy Quran.
- Prof. Dr Amir Bakhsh Channa's Sindhi Translation of Holy Quran.
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