5/20/2023 0 Comments Islam for Beginners by Nabil MatarMatar takes us on a fascinating journey through time and into the depth of the human mind. Undoubtedly, this meticulously researched book will interest an array of scholars, including those from disciplines of English literature, History, and Religious Studies. Matar here presents a very learned and documented work of significant revisionism. In meticulously researching and footnoting this extraordinary late-seventeenth-century text, Matar and Columbia University Press have rendered Islamic Studies, and the study of early English texts, a service of inestimable value. This is an excellent edition of an important work that testifies to the benefits of scholarly translation and the ability of an Englishman writing in the late 1600s to open his mind to alternate narratives about the rise of Islam and the merits of the Prophet as a man and religious reformer. An essential tool for any future treatment of the man and his work.
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