The Discourses
Reflections on History, Sufism, Theology, and Literature—Volume One
$95.01
- Hardcover
530 pages
- Release Date
10 February 2020
Summary
Wide-ranging essays on Moroccan history, Sufism, and religious life Al-Hasan al-Yusi was arguably the most influential and well-known Moroccan intellectual figure of his generation. In 1084⁄1685, at the age of roughly fifty-four, and after a long and distinguished career, this Amazigh scholar from the Middle Atlas began writing a collection of short essays on a wide variety of subjects. Completed three years later and gathered together under the title Discourses on Language and Literature …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780814764572 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0814764576 |
| Author: | Justin Stearns, al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī |
| Publisher: | New York University Press |
| Imprint: | New York University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 530 |
| Release Date: | 10 February 2020 |
| Weight: | 916g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Library of Arabic Literature |
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“Exquisitely rendered into English … As is the norm for the series, the volume is beautifully produced.”
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About The Author
Justin Stearns
al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī (Author) Al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī (d. 1102⁄1691) was a major eleventh/seventeenth-century Moroccan scholar and a prolific author of books on a wide variety of subjects, including Flowers from the Greatest Proverbs and Sayings. Justin Stearns (Edited and Translated by) Justin Stearns is Associate Professor in Arab Crossroads Studies at NYU Abu Dhabi. He is the author of Infectious Ideas: Contagion in Pre-Modern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean and Revealed Sciences: The Natural Sciences in Islam inSeventeenth-Century Morocco.
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