Description
THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD - A TRANSLATION OF IBN ISHAQ'S SIRAT RASUL ALLAH / A. GUILLAUME / OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS / Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780196360331 / 978-0196360331
- ISBN-10 : 0196360331
Printed in Pakistan
Pages 813
About the Author
Alfred Guillaume (1888 1966) was Professor of Arabic and Head of the Department of the Near and Middle East in the SOAS, University of London, UK.
Professor Guillaume's translation of Ibn Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah is now reissued. The translator used Ibn Hisham's abridgment and also included many additions and variants found in the writings of early authors. The book thus presents in English practically all that is known of the life of the Prophet.
In the Introduction, the translator discusses the character of the Sira in the light of the opinion of early Arabian scholars, noting especially the difficulties of the poetry. As the earliest monument of Arabian prose literature, the Sira remains a work of the first importance.
| ISBN: | 9780196360331 |
| Publisher: | OUP Pakistan |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Pub date: | 05 Jan 1989 |
| Language: | English |
| Number of pages: | xlvii, 813 |
| Weight: | 1180g |
| Height: | 227mm |
| Width: | 148mm |
| Spine width: | 46mm |
