Guntur District, ANDHRA PRADESH :

Hamidullah Shariff who translated the Qur’an into Telugu in 1985 died recently in his home town in a village in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh.

Hamidullah Sharif is well versed in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Telugu and English languages and is considered a scholar particularly of Arabic, Urdu and Telugu.

The Telugu translation of Qur’an is named or titled Divya Qur’an.

He was also a member of Andhra Pradesh’s Jamat-e Islami Hind Majlis-e Shoora.  

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