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  • The Biography of Muhammad

    Nature and Authenticity

    by Gregor Schoeler ...
    Translated by Uwe Vagelpohl ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Classical Islam
    This book considers the Arabic biographies of Prophet Muhammad, the earliest of which dates from two centuries after his life. These biographies, prized by Muslims, have been approached in the Western study of Islam from a range of positions. Some scholars reject them entirely, seeing in them products of the Muslim community’s idealisation of its history, while others accept them at face value, ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • The Oral and the Written in Early Islam

    by Gregor Schoeler, Uwe Vagelpohl, James E. Montgomery ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
    Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated for the first time in English, this prestigious book from Gregor Schoeler gives a reasoned, informed and comprehensive overflow of how the written and the spoken interacted, diverged and received cultural articulation among the Muslim societies of the first two centuries of the Hijra. ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • The Epistle of Forgiveness

    Volume One: A Vision of Heaven and Hell

    by Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī, Geert Jan van Gelder, Gregor Schoeler ...
    Series Book 32 - Library of Arabic Literature
    One of the most unusual books in classical Arabic literature, The Epistle of Forgiveness is the lengthy reply by the prolific Syrian poet and prose writer Abu l-'Ala' al-Ma'arri (d. 449/1057), to a letter written by an obscure grammarian, Ibn al-Qarih. With biting irony, The Epistle of Forgiveness mocks Ibn al-Qarih's hypocrisy and sycophancy by imagining he has died and arrived with some ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • The Epistle of Forgiveness

    Volume Two: Hypocrites, Heretics, and Other Sinners

    by Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī, Geert Jan van Gelder, Gregor Schoeler ...
    Series Book 36 - Library of Arabic Literature
    One of the most unusual books in classical Arabic literature, The Epistle of Forgiveness is the lengthy reply by the prolific Syrian poet and prose writer, Abu l-'Ala' al-Ma'arri (d. 449/1057), to a letter by an obscure grammarian, Ibn al-Qarih. With biting irony, The Epistle of Forgiveness mocks Ibn al-Qarih’s hypocrisy and sycophancy by imagining he has died and arrived with some difficulty in ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • The Epistle of Forgiveness

    Volumes One and Two

    by Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī ...
    Translated by Gregor Schoeler, Geert Jan van Gelder ...
    Series Book 29 - Library of Arabic Literature
    Known as “one of the most complex and unusual texts in Arabic literature” (Banipal Magazine), The Epistle of Forgiveness is the lengthy reply by the prolific Syrian poet and prose writer, Abu l-'Ala' al-Ma'arri (d. 449/1057), to a letter by an obscure grammarian, Ibn al-Qari. With biting irony, The Epistle of Forgiveness mocks Ibn al-Qari’s hypocrisy and sycophancy by imagining he has died and ... Read more

    $15.39 CAD

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