Mustafa Khattab is a Canadian–Egyptian Muslim scholar, author, youth mentor, public speaker, imam, and university chaplain.
Khattab memorized the entire Quran at a young age, and later obtained a professional ijâzah in the Ḥafṣ style of recitation with a chain of narrators going all the way to Muḥammad.
in Islamic Studies in English with Honors from Al-Azhar University's Faculty of Languages & Translation.
Khattab has stated that a mistranslation of the Arabic word dābbah was an early motivation to begin the project.
[3] Khattab's translation has been officially approved by Al-Azhar and was endorsed by the Canadian Council of Imams and many other Muslim organizations and scholars worldwide.