The Discourses
Reflections on History, Sufism, Theology, and Literature—Volume One
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- Paperback
280 pages
- Release Date
4 October 2021
Summary
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 o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781479810581 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1479810584 |
| Author: | al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī, Justin Stearns, Ayesha Ramachandran |
| Publisher: | New York University Press |
| Imprint: | New York University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 4 October 2021 |
| Weight: | 431g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 210mm |
| 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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al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī
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.
Ayesha Ramachandran (Foreword by)
Ayesha Ramachandran is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University. She is the author of The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe.
Justin Stearns (Translator)
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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