Aharon Ben-Shemesh
{{Short description|Israeli academic}}
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Aharon Ben-Shemesh ({{Langx|he|אַהֲרֹן בֵּן־שֶׁמֶשׁ}}; 1889–1988) was an Israeli writer, translator, and lecturer in Islamic Law at Tel Aviv University. He published a modern Hebrew translation of the Quran from the original Arabic in 1971, and an English translation in 1979.{{cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/1.4889678|access-date=29 April 2019|title=Know Thy Neighbor|first=Shiri|last=Lev-Ari|date=26 February 2003|newspaper=Haaretz}}{{cite news|url=https://www.jpost.com/Blogs/YoungDiplomats/Reading-the-Quran-in-Hebrew-by-YoungDiplomats-446264|access-date=29 April 2019|title=Reading the Quran in Hebrew|first=Jason|last=Roth|date=27 February 2016|newspaper=The Jerusalem Post}}
Selected bibliography
- {{cite book|title=Ḥuḳe ha-ḳarḳaʻot bi-medinat Yiśraʼel|trans-title=Land Laws in the State of Israel|first=A.|last=Ben-Shemesh|location=Tel Aviv|publisher=Massada|date=1953|language=he}}
- {{cite book|title=Yaḥyā ben Ādam's Kitāb al-Kharāj|series=Taxation in Islam|volume=1|editor-last=Ben-Shemesh|editor-first=A.|location=Leiden|date=1958|publisher=E. J. Brill|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oYseAAAAIAAJ}}
- {{cite book|title=Qudāma b. Ja'far's Kitāb al-kharāj, part seven, and excerpts from Abū Yūsuf's kitāb al-kharāj|series=Taxation in Islam|volume=2|editor-last=Ben-Shemesh|editor-first=A.|location=Leiden|date=1965|publisher=E. J. Brill}}
- {{cite book|editor-last=Ben-Shemesh|editor-first=A.|series=Taxation in Islam|volume=3|title=Abū Yūsuf's Kitāb al-Kharāj|date=1969|location=Leiden|publisher=E. J. Brill}}
- {{cite book|editor-last=Ben-Shemesh|editor-first=A.|title=Ha-Ḳurʼan ha-ḳadosh: sefer ha-sefarim shel ha-Iślam|trans-title=The Holy Qurʼān: The Great Book of Islam|language=he|location=Ramat Gan|publisher=Massada|date=1971}}
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Category:Arabic–Hebrew translators
Category:Academic staff of Tel Aviv University
Category:Translators of the Quran into English
Category:20th-century Israeli translators
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