Aisha Bewley, a renowned Arabic-English translator, has been named Muslim woman of the year in the 2023 edition of the Muslim 500, a publication that profiles the most influential Muslims.

Ms Bewley, who is well known for translating traditional Islamic literatures into English, has worked hard over the years to ensure that the English-speaking Muslim community gets access to Islamic literatures written in Arabic.

“Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley (b.1948) is one of the world’s most prolific and accomplished translators of classical Islamic works from Arabic to English,” stated the report.

The Muslim 500 publication added that since converting to Islam in 1968, she “has spent the past five decades faithfully learning the Islamic tradition and making its key texts available to the global English-speaking Muslim community, sometimes in collaboration with her husband, Abdalhaqq Bewley, with whom she translated the noble Qur’an.”

Married to Hajj Abdalhaqq Bewley, Ms Bewley has written and translated a number of works on Islam to open up the faith to a wider audience because it had previously only been available in Arabic.