René Rizqallah Khawam was a Syrian translator foremost known for his translations of the Qur'an, One Thousand and One Nights, The Perfumed Garden and Ahmad al-Tifashi's A Promenade of the Hearts.
Khawam was born to a Christian family of Caucasian... Wikipedia
Born: April 27, 1917, Aleppo, Syria
Died: March 22, 2004 (age 86 years), Paris, France