N.J. Dawood

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N.J. Dawood


Born
in Baghdad, Iraq
August 27, 1927

Died
November 20, 2014

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Nessim Joseph Dawood (Arabic: نعيم جوزيف داوود) was born in 1927 in Baghdad, Iraq. He emigrated to England in 1945 as an Iraq State scholar, and settled there. He graduated from the University of London. He is known for his English translations of the Qur’an, Tales from the One Thousand and One Nights (Penguin Classics) and his edition of the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun. (from Wikipedia).

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“The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is better than poverty.”
N.J. Dawood, The Thousand and One Nights

“He who speaks of that which does not concern him shall hear what will displease him.”
N.J. Dawood, Tales from the Thousand and One Nights

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