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Ibn Ishaq was born on 704 in Medina, Saudi Arabia, the grandson of a Christian man of Kufa, by the name of Yasār. His father's name was Isḥāq.
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Hunayn Ibn Ishaq on His Galen Translations (Eastern Christian Texts)
( Hunayn Ibn Ishaq (80973), one of the most prolific ear...)
Hunayn Ibn Ishaq (80973), one of the most prolific early medieval translators of classical works, rendered hundreds of Greek volumes into Syriac and Arabic. This treatise on his Galen translations illuminates Ishaqs efforts and their ninth-century context while recognizing that the translation movement had actually begun centuries earlier with Christians, Jews, and others. Offering the definitive Arabic text with a modern English translation and apparatus, this volume will be essential for anyone interested in the transmission of knowledge in the Late Antique and early Islamic Middle East.
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The Life of Muhammad
(Alfred Guillaume's authoritative translation of the Sira ...)
Alfred Guillaume's authoritative translation of the Sira of Ibn Ishaq presents in English the complete history of the life of Prophet Muhammad. No book can compare in comprehensiveness, arrangement, or systematic treatment with Ibn Ishaq's work.
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Al-Kafi: Volume 1 The Book of Reason And Ignorance
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Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources
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A revised edition of the internationally acclaimed biography of the prophet ⢠Includes important additions about the prophetâs spread of Islam into Syria and its neighboring states ⢠Contains original English translations from 8th and 9th century biographies, presented in authoritative language ⢠Represents the final updates made on the text before the authorâs death in 2005 Martin Lingsâ biography of Muhammad is an internationally acclaimed, comprehensive, and authoritative account of the life of the prophet. Based on the sira, the eighth- and ninth-century Arabic biographies that recount numerous events in the prophetâs life, it contains original English translations of many important passages that reveal the words of men and women who heard Muhammad speak and witnessed the events of his life. Scrupulous and exhaustive in its fidelity to its sources, Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources is presented in a narrative style that is easily comprehensible, yet authentic and inspiring in its use of language, reflecting both the simplicity and grandeur of the story it tells. This revised edition includes new sections detailing the prophetâs expanding influence and his spreading of the message of Islam into Syria and its neighboring states. It represents the final updates made to the text before the authorâs death in 2005. The book has been published in 12 languages and has received numerous awards, including acknowledgment as best biography of the prophet in English at the National Seerate Conference in Islamabad.
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Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Yasār ibn Khiyār
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Ibn Ishaq lived in Medina, where he interested himself to such an extent in the details of the Prophet's life that he was attacked by those to whom his work seemed to have a rationalistic tendency. He consequently left Medina in 733, and went to Alexandria, then to Kufa and Hira, and finally to Bagdad, where the caliph Mansur provided him with the means of writing his great work. This was the Life of the Apostle of God, which is now lost and is known to us only in the recension of Ibn Hisham. The work has been attacked by Arabian writers as untrustworthy, and it seems clear that he introduced forged verses. It remains, however, one of the most important works of the age. Ibn Isḥaq wrote several works. His major work is al-Mubtadaʾ wa al-Baʿth wa al-Maghāzī - the Kitab al-Mubtada and Kitab al-Mab'ath both survive in part, particularly al-Mab'ath, in ibn Hisham and al-Mubtada otherwise in substantial fragments. He is also credited with the lost works Kitāb al-kh̲ulafāʾ, which al-Umawwī related to him and a book of Sunan. Ibn Ishaq died in 761.
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Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources
(A revised edition of the internationally acclaimed biogra...)
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Al-Kafi: Volume 1 The Book of Reason And Ignorance
(This book is one of the many Islamic publications distrib...)
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Hunayn Ibn Ishaq on His Galen Translations (Eastern Christian Texts)
( Hunayn Ibn Ishaq (80973), one of the most prolific ear...)
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The Life of Muhammad
(Alfred Guillaume's authoritative translation of the Sira ...)
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Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources
