Muhammad Ali | |
Native Name: | محمد علي |
Birth Date: | 1874 |
Birth Place: | Murar, Kapurthala State, British India |
Death Date: | 13 October 1951 |
Death Place: | Karachi, Pakistan |
Resting Place: | Lahore, Pakistan |
Occupation: | Writer |
Language: | Urdu, Arabic |
Movement: | Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement |
Nationality: | Pakistani |
Honorific Prefix: | Maulana |
Muhammad Ali (; Arabic: محمد علي; 1874 - 13 October 1951) was a British Indian, and a Pakistani writer, scholar, and leading figure of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement.
Ali was born in Murar, Kapurthala State (now in Ludhiana district, Punjab, India) in 1874. He obtained a Master of Arts in English and a Bachelor of Laws in 1899. He joined the Ahmadiyya Movement in 1897 and dedicated his life to the service of the movement as part of what he saw as a restored and pristine Islam.[1] He died in Karachi on October 13, 1951, and is buried in Lahore.
Marmaduke Pickthall, British Muslim and translator of the Quran into English, wrote a review of Muhammad Ali's book The Religion of Islam when this book was published in 1936. The review was published in the journal Islamic Culture of Hyderabad Deccan (India), whose editor was Pickthall. In this review Pickthall wrote: