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George Sale (1697–1736) was a British Orientalist scholar and practising solicitor, best known for his 1734 translation of the Quran into English. In 1748, after having read Sale's translation, [ 1 ] Voltaire wrote his own essay "De l'Alcoran et de Mahomet" ("On the Quran and on Mohammed").
Other articles where George Sale is discussed: Muhammad: Western perceptions: …illustrated by the British Orientalist George Sale’s (died 1736) translation of the Qurʾān into English (1734): even though its declared objective is polemical and the Qurʾān is dismissed as “so manifest a forgery,” Sale at least leaves it open whether Muhammad’s preaching sprang from genuine religious ...
Sale was an early member of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Sale became seriously ill with fever for eight days before his death. George Sale died at Surrey Street, The Strand, London, on 13 November 1736. Sale was buried at St Clement Danes in London. His family consisted of a wife and five children.
Even in the second half of the 20 th century, Sale was spared by Edward Said in his famous book Orientalism: George Sale’s translation of the Koran and his accompanying preliminary discourse illustrate the change. Unlike his predecessors, Sale tried to deal with Arab history in terms of Arab sources; moreover, he let Muslim commentators on the sacred text speak for themselves.
The third son, Samuel Sale, perished in the great earthquake at Lisbon. A daughter, Marianne Sale, married Edward Arkell, by whom she had an only child, Edward. Sale's three remaining children died young (manuscript notes by Pennington in 1734 edition of Sale's Koran, belonging to the Rev. H. S. Pennington, rector of St. Clement Danes).
The translation was supported by the Society of the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, although Sale and the Society drifted apart soon after the book’s publication. It was the translation of choice for eighteenth century English intellectuals, as well as finding fame abroad as the favoured Qur’an for figures such as Thomas Jefferson and Voltaire.
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