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Mahmud Yunus (Old Spelling: Mahmoed Joenoes) (February 10, 1899 – January 16, 1982) was an Indonesian Minangkabau Islamic preacher and teacher. [1] He authored over seventy-five books, including Tafsir Qur'an Karim ("Interpretation of the Karim Koran") and an Arab-Indonesian dictionary. His books are used in madarsas and pesantrens.
Mahmood Mamdani, FBA (born 23 April 1946) is an Indian-born Ugandan academic, author, and political commentator. [1] He currently serves as the Chancellor of Kampala International University, Uganda. [2]
Muhammad Mahmud Ghali (1920–29 November 2016) [1] [2] was the Professor of Linguistics and Islamic Studies, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. Ghali studied phonetics at the University of Exeter in the UK before obtaining his PhD in Phonetics from the University of Michigan. He spent 20 years interpreting the meanings of the Quran into English.
Ismail Marzuki (also known as Bang Ma'ing; 11 May 1914 – 25 May 1958) was an Indonesian composer, songwriter and musician who wrote around 202 to 240 songs between 1931 and 1958, including numerous popular patriotic songs.
Sir Peter George Bruce, FRS, FRSE, FRSC is a British chemist, and Wolfson Professor of Materials in the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford. [1] Between 2018 and 2023, he served as Physical Secretary and Vice President of the Royal Society. [2] Bruce is a founder and Chief Scientist of the Faraday Institution. [3]
Mahmoud Darwish was born in 1941 in al-Birwa in the Western Galilee, [5] the second child of Salim and Houreyyah Darwish. His family were landowners. His mother was illiterate, but his grandfather taught him to read. [3]