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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,[1] Voltaire wrote his own essay "De l'Alcoran et de Mahomet" ("On the Quran and on Mohammed").
For A General Dictionary, Historical and Critical,[2] an English translation and enlargement of Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire historique et critique,[3] Sale supplied "Articles relating to Oriental History".[2]: title page