Laleh Bakhtiar

Laleh Mehree Bakhtiar (July 29, 1938 – October 18, 2020) was an Iranian-American author, translator and clinical psychologist.[1][2] She was born in New York City. She translated and wrote a total of 25 books about Islam, many were about Sufism.[3]

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.[4][5]

Bakhtiar died on October 18, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois from leukemia at the age of 82.[6]

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