Laleh Bakhtiar

Laleh Mehree Bakhtiar (July 29, 1938 –  October 18, 2020) was an Iranian-American author, translator and clinical psychologist.John Colson, Symposium focuses on Muslim women  Aspen Times, August 15, 2007Hanady Kader, Online Matchmaking Sites Court U.S. Muslims, WeNews, May 29, 2008. She was born in New York City. She translated and wrote a total of 25 books about Islam, many were about Sufism.Disobedient Muslim Women 

She also authored or co-authored many biographical works. Her translation of the Qur'an, published in 2007 and called The Sublime Quran, is the first translation of the Qur'an into English by an American woman.Andrea Useem, Laleh Bakhtiar: An American Woman Translates the Qur'an Publishers Weekly, April 16, 2007

Bakhtiar died on October 18, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois from leukemia at the age of 82.

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