Al-Rabghūzī, the Stories of the Prophets (2 Vols.): Qiṣaṣ Al-Anbiyā' an Eastern Turkish Version (Second Edition)

2. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-29469-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Turkish, 1436 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 2449 g

A first edition of The Stories of the Prophets, written in Khwarezmian Turkish by the judge (qadi) Rabghuzi and completed in 1311, was published in 1995 by a group of authors. For the second edition H.E. Boeschoten and J. O’Kane have thoroughly revised both the text edition and the translation volume on the basis of additional manuscripts and reviews of the first edition.

The Stories of the Prophets (Qisas al-Anbiya’) is a traditional genre in Islamic literature. Such a work contains the res gestae of the biblical prophets and stories about other personalities and peoples up to the birth of the Prophet Muhammed. Exceptionally, Rabghuzi’s Stories also contains a sizable account of the life of Muhammed and his family. The work is a fundamental source both for Turkic linguistics and for Islamic Studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boeschoten, H. E.

O'Kane, J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 7. - 14. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Theologie

Über Autor(innen)

Hendrik Erik Boeschoten (1950) is Professor of Turkology at the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz. He has published on topics of Turkic linguistics and language contact, besides a number of text editions and translations.

John O’Kane (1940) has been publishing since 1972 translations of Arabic and Persian works to do with Sufism, as well as several volumes in the field of Islamic Studies translated from German into English.