Muhammad Asad

Who is Muhammad Asad?

Muhammad Asad (born Leopold Weiss; 1900-1992) was an Austro-Hungarian Pakistani Muslim convert and polymath, born in modern day Ukraine.
He worked as a journalist, traveler, writer, political theorist, and diplomat. Born to a Jewish family, Weiss had acquired a passing fluency in Hebrew and Aramaic by age 13, in addition to his native German and Polish languages. By his mid-twenties, he could read and write in English, French, Persian and Arabic. In Mandatory Palestine, Weiss engaged in arguments with Zionist leaders like Chaim Weizmann, voicing his reservations about some aspects of the Zionist Movement. After traveling across the Arab World as a journalist, he converted to Sunni Islam in 1926 and adopted the name "Muhammad Asad". Asad being the Arabic rendition of his root name Leo (Lion).
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