The Call to God: An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistle 48

ISBN-13: 9780198838982 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 480 str.

Abbas Hamdani; Abdallah Soufan

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Abbas Hamdani is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He received his BA in 1945 and LLB in 1947 from Bombay University, and his PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies in 1950 in Arabic and Islamic Studies. He taught at the University of Karachi from 1951-62, at the American University in Cairo from 1962-9, and at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee from 1970 until his retirement in 2001. He has published on Fatimid history, medieval Islamic and Ismaili thought, and on the Islamic background to the Voyages of Discovery. He was awarded fellowships from the Fulbright Commission and the American Research Center in Egypt. Abdallah Soufan received his BS in Mathematics, and his BA and MA in Arabic Language and Literature from the American University of Beirut, where he worked for several years as an Instructor of Arabic and Islamic Thought. He is currently a PhD candidate at Georgetown University. His research investigates dichotomies in classical Islamic thought, including the dichotomies of sunna/bid'a, veridicality/tropicality, reason/tradition, word/meaning, and exoteric/esoteric.