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In the 1950s and 60s, when Britain dismantled its extensive Empire, he traded with the emergent nations, particularly Nigeria, as a journalist, publisher and advertising agent.
Perhaps the crowning achievement of his career—it certainly made his fortune—was to produce for distribution in Nigeria 10,000 copies of a splendid four-colour edition of the Holy Quran.
Hard to discern from its beautifully hand-calligraphed original, written in the strikingly bold script known as Maghribi (“Western”), it is a publication which has earned admiration from Arabists and Quranic scholars alike.
The world of Charles H G Nida has long since disappeared, but its legacy lives on. Here then is his story of life on the road in India at the start of the Great War, as he bequeathed it to me, his nephew.
Ian Clark, Whitby, 2007.
© Ian A Clark, 2008.
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