Mohamed Ali Abdel Jalil

Mohamed Ali Abdel Jalil (محمد علي عبد الجليل) is a Syrian essayist, calligraph, critic, researcher islamologist and translator. He spoke French and Arabic. He was born in Damascus in 1973 in a peasant family from Damascus Suburb (Rif Dimashq Governorate) (village: Rankous). He studied at the Damascus University. He is a member of the Maaber Committee (The magazine and Publishing houseof Maaber http://www.maaber.org/). He proposes the idea that the Qur'an is a text translated into Arabic from other dominant languages and cultures.