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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1885|03|29|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = Keezh Manthoor, [[Tanjore district]], [[Madras Presidency]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1969|02|24|1885|03|29|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[Madras]], [[India]]<br />
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| occupation = [[Tamil language|Tamil]] scholar and activist<br />
| education = [[Government Arts College, Kumbakonam]]<br />
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| notable_works = translating [[Quran]] into [[Tamil language|Tamil]]<br />
| awards = gold medal, Madurai Tamil Sangam<br />
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'''P. Dawood Shah''' (Tamil: '''பா. தாவூத் ஷா''') (29 March 1885 – 24 February 1969) was a [[Tamil language|Tamil]] scholar and activist.<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Dawood Shah was born on 29 March 1885, in [[Keezh Manthoor]], [[Tanjore district]], [[Madras Presidency]].{{fact|date=August 2020}} He had his early education in [[Government Arts College, Kumbakonam]] where he was a classmate of [[Srinivasa Ramanujan]].{{fact|date=August 2020}}<br />
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==Career==<br />
P. Dawood Shah loved the Tamil language and won a gold medal from the Madurai Tamil Sangam. He strongly advocated the replacement of [[Arabic]] with Tamil in mosques and led a campaign. He was the first person to translate the [[Quran]] into Tamil and served as the editor of the Tamil magazine ''[[Darul Islam (magazine)|Darul Islam]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.darulislamfamily.com/Main/Welcome.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2009-10-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708233205/http://www.darulislamfamily.com/Main/Welcome.html |archivedate=2011-07-08 }}</ref><br />
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==Death==<br />
He died on 24 February 1969 in [[Madras]], India.<br />
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