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The Discourses: Reflections on History, Sufism, Theology, and Literature, Volume One
Authors:
al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī (author)
,
Justin Stearns (translator)
,
Ayesha Ramachandran (foreword)
Series:
Library of Arabic Literature
ISBN:
9789376540259
Binding:
Hardcover
Year:
2027
Pages:
280
Size:
15 x 23 cm
Price:
INR
1795.00
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About the Book
Wide-ranging essays on Moroccan history, Sufism, and religious life.
Al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī 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 (al-Muhadarat fi l-adab wa-l-lughah)
, they offer rich insight into the varied intellectual interests of an ambitious and gifted Moroccan scholar, covering subjects as diverse as genealogy, theology, Sufism, history, and social mores.In addition to representing the author’s intellectual interests,
The Discourses
also includes numerous autobiographical anecdotes, which offer valuable insight into the history of Morocco, including the transition from the Saadian to the Alaouite dynasty, which occurred during al-Yūsī’s lifetime. Translated into English for the first time,
The Discourses
offers readers access to the intellectual landscape of the early modern Muslim world through an author who speaks openly and frankly about his personal life and his relationships with his country’s rulers, scholars, and commoners.
About the Authors
al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī
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
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 in Seventeenth-Century Morocco
.
Ayesha Ramachandran
Ayesha Ramachandran is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University. She is the author of
The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe
.
Editorial Reviews
“Exquisitely rendered into English . . . As is the norm for the series, the volume is beautifully produced.”
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Religious Studies Review
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