AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. SANIYASNAIN KHAN

AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. SANIYASNAIN KHAN CHILDREN’S AUTHOR | SPEAKER| FOUNDER GOODWORD BOOKS Saniyasnain Khan is an Indian television host and children’s author, with over 100 children’s books to his credit. These are on subjects relating to Islam, and a number of them have been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Polish, Swedish, Bosnian, Norwegian, Russian, Uzbek, Turkish, Arabic, Malay, Thai, Malayalam, Bengali, Urdu, etc. His most recent books are 365 Prophet Muhammad Stories, 365 Days with the Quran and Bedtime Quran Stories. After doing his post-graduation from the University of Delhi, he began assisting his father, the noted Islamic scholar Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, who has translated the Quran into English and Urdu and also written a commentary on it. Goodword Books In 1996, Saniyasnain Khan established Goodword Books, which deals mainly with books on Islamic subjects. Realizing the need to educate the younger generation about the message of Islam as a religion of peace and harmony, he began writing stories for children. His first book, Tell Me About Hajj, was published in 1999. Afterwards he began to write children’s books based on the Quran and Hadith which became popular all over Europe and America. Goodword Quran Project In 2009, Goodword started publishing the Quran translations in major languages of the world. So far Goodword has published the Quran in 25 languages including English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Sinhalese, Urdu, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Punjabi, Kannada, Telugu, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil, etc. Goodword aims at publishing Quran translations in more than 100 languages and distribute copies of the Quran around the world.