His name is Abu Talha Dawud Burbank. He was born on Oct. 20th, 1963 in Coalville, Leicestershire, England into a Christian family. He converted to Islam at the age of 19 and studied at the Islamic University of Madinah in KSA in the mid to late 1980s. He was fluent in the Arabic language and translated numerous Arabic texts and books into English and also lectured on Islamic subjects. Burbank was considered by his mosque as a "pre-eminent translator of religious texts" and is said to have translated more than 60 books from Arabic into the English language. According to Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid, director of Small Heath's Mosque in Birmingham, he confirms that Burbank "Was well known and probably the best Arabic to English language translators in the entire West." Burbank and his wife, Khalida Begum Dost, died on Nov. 1st. 2011 when the coach bus they were travelling on from Jeddah International Airport to the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia caught fire. Burbank and his wife were buried in Mecca.
