George Sale
George Sale (1697–1736) was a  British Orientalist scholar and practising solicitor, best known for his 1734 translation of the Quran into English. In 1748, after having read Sale's translation, Voltaire wrote his own essay "De l'Alcoran et de Mahomet" ("On the Quran and on Mohammed"). For A General Dictionary, Historical and Critical,
an English translation and enlargement of Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire historique et critique,
Sale supplied "Articles relating to Oriental History". : title page