# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/toshihiko-izutsu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:19:15.552Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/toshihiko-izutsu"
name: "Toshihiko Izutsu"
slug: "toshihiko-izutsu"
description: "Toshihiko Izutsu  was a Japanese scholar who specialized in Islamic studies and comparative religion. He took an interest in linguistics at a young age, and came to know more than thirty languages, including Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, Persian, Sanskrit, Pali, Hindustani, Russian, Greek, and Chinese. He is widely known for his translation of the Qurʾān into Japanese."
tagline: "Japanese author of many books on Islam and other religions (1914–1993)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cf/Toshihiko_Izutsu_%281914%E2%80%931993%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1914-05-04"
deathDate: "1993-01-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.29
  momentum:             9.018404907975457
  historical:           14.565096
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump