Zohurul Hoque
{{Short description|Indian Islamic scholar (1926–2017)}}
{{Other uses|Zahurul Haque (disambiguation)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2018}}
{{Infobox religious biography
| name = Dr. Zohurul Hoque
| image = ZH 2507.jpg
| caption =
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1926|10|11|df=y}}
| birth_place = Deubari, Karimganj, Sylhet district, Assam Province, British Raj (modern-day Bangladesh)
| death_date = {{death date and age|2017|1|18|1926|10|11|df=y}}
| death_place = Muscat, Oman
| alma_mater = {{ubl|Assam Medical College|University of Michigan}}
| occupation = Public Health
| religion = Islam
| denomination= Sunni
}}
Zohurul Hoque ({{langx|bn|জহূরুল হক}}; 11 October 1926 – 18 January 2017) was a Bengali Islamic scholar and doctor known for his translations of the Qur'an into the Bengali, Assamese and English languages. He later moved to Muscat in Oman.
Career
He published a Bengali translation of the Qur'an in 1986, after working on it for 12 years. He had started to work on an Assamese translation before the Bengali translation was complete. Hoque published the Assamese translation of The Quran in three volumes. He started work on an English translation in 1993. He published a book with more than 1250 pages titled Translation and Commentary on The Holy Quran on April 1, 2000. It was part of the Holy Quran Pub Project.{{cite book|title=Translation and Commentary on The Holy Qur-an|first=Zohurul|last=Hoque|date=1 April 2000|publisher=Holy Quran Publishing Project|isbn=0967830400}} The Assamese translation, published by Bina Library, Guwahati, Assam, is now in its sixth reprint. A new edition of his Bangla translation of the Quran has been published in June 2014.{{cite web|url=http://www.qurananubad.com|title=Qur'an Bangla Anubad|work=qurananubad.com|access-date=22 January 2017}}
Death
He died in Muscat, Oman on 18 January 2017, and was buried at the Central Public Graveyard in Al Amarat.{{cite news|url=https://timesofoman.com/article/101009/Oman/Education/Noted-Indian-Islamic-scholar-passes-away-in-Oman|title=Noted Indian Islamic scholar passes away in Oman|date=21 January 2017|newspaper=Times of Oman|first=Rejimon|last=K|access-date=8 October 2018}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110929233259/http://www.qurantoday.com/translator.htm A short biography]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090129090725/http://al-quran.info/ Al-Quran] project includes Zohurul Hoque's Bengali Quran translation.
- [http://tanzil.net/#trans/bn.hoque/1 Bengali translation of Quran] by Dr. Zohurul Hoque (online)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110926192038/http://www.qurantoday.com/bangla.htm Bengali] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20110928150830/http://www.qurantoday.com/assamese.htm Assamese] translations of Quran by Dr. Zohurul Hoque (pdf)
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Category:Indian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam
Category:University of Calcutta alumni
Category:20th-century Indian translators
Category:Translators of the Quran into English
Category:Translators to Assamese
Category:Translators of the Quran into Bengali
Category:University of Michigan School of Public Health alumni
Category:Bengali Muslim scholars of Islam
Category:21st-century Bengalis
Category:People from Karimganj district