Aisha bewley husband

Abdalhaqq bewley
Aisha bewley sufi
Aisha Bewley converted to Islam in 1968.

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Aisha Bewley

Born

The United States

Website

http://bewley.virtualave.net/

Genre

Religion, Spirituality, Islam

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Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley, born 1948 in the United States. She holds a BA in French and MA in Near Eastern Languages from the University of California, Berkeley. She spent a year with a fellowship at the American University in Cairo and at the same time attended a seminar on Sufism and Islamic philosophy at Dar al-’Ulum. She is a student of Shaykh Abdalqadir al-Murabit, and also studied Ibn ‘Arabi with the late Sidi Fudul al-Hurawi in Fes, Morocco.

Aisha Bewley converted to Islam in 1968. She is the author and translator of many published and unpublished works, some available on her website. She is married to Hajj Abdalhaqq Bewley with whom she often translates and mother of three children.

http://murabitblog.wordpress.com/2009...Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley, born 1948 in the United States. She holds a BA in French and MA in Near Eastern Languages from the University of California, Berkeley. She spent a year with a fellowship at the American University

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Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley

American writer and translator

Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley (born 1948) is a convert to Islam and author or translator of many books on Islam.^[1] The WorldCat union catalog lists her as author or translator for "73 works in 172 publications in 3 languages and 855 library holdings".^[1] She and her husband collaborated on an English translation of the Qur'an.^[2]

Life

According to her website, she was born in 1948 in the United States, received a BA in French and an MA in Near Eastern Languages from the University of California, Berkeley and attended the American University in Cairo on a fellowship. She converted to Islam in 1968. She is married to Shaykh Abdalhaqq Bewley, who is often co-translator of her books, and is the father of her three children.^[3]^[4]

Selected works

Translations

(tr.) The Darqawi Way: Letters of Mawlay al-Darqawi by Muhammad al-Arabi al-Darqawi. Norwich: Diwan Press, 1981.
(tr.) Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik ibn Anas: The First Formulation of Islamic La
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[Taken from Hajj Aisha Bewley’s own website]
People keep asking me for biographical information. There is part of an interview done for the Islamic Society of Brooklyn College in 1998 which provides some information.
1.) Name: Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley
2.) Place of birth: USA
3.) Date of birth: 1948
4.) Were you born Muslim or did you convert? If so, when did you convert?
What most influenced you to convert? Converted, 1968. My family was a strong Christian one, but I eventually I felt that there was something missing in Christianity. That eventually led me to become involved in Zen Buddhism for a number of years, which was really a process of realising that dunya is not as real or permanent as it seems and of dismantling a structuralist approach to existence.
At the same time, I was reading a lot of philosophy, starting with Nietzsche and moving on to Schopenhauer, Kant, Hegel, and so forth, in an attempt to get a grasp on the significance of our existence. One thing that always stayed with me was the manner in which Nietzsche had alluded in a positive way to Islam wh