1st Edition
The Early Muslim Conquest of Syria An English Translation of al-Azdī’s Futūḥ al-Shām
Introduction; 1 Summary of al-Azdī’s Futūḥ al-Shām; 2 The compiler-author and his work; 3 Policies of translation; 4 Translation
Biography
Hamada Hassanein is Assistant Professor at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University (Saudi Arabia), on secondment from Mansoura University (Egypt). His academic interest is the application of linguistic theories to Arabic texts. His recent publications include Arabic Antonymy Translation (2017) and Discourse Functions (2018).
Jens Scheiner is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Göttingen (Germany). His research interests are the political and social history of the early and classical periods of Islam and HadithStudies (in particular isnad-cum-matnanalysis). He published on the early Muslim conquests, the cultural history of Baghdad and hadith.
"We should once again emphasise the careful work and the exceptionally high quality of scholarship that went into the production of the volume under review. It is a most welcome addition to the existing corpus of modern translations of medieval Arabic historiography, for which both the translators undertaking the time-consuming work of preparing a precise study translation of an Arabic historical text and the publisher are to be duly thanked and commended. That said, it is also to be remarked that the present translation will reach its full impact with the publication of Scheiner’s forthcoming monograph, not least because there is hardly any other early or classical Arabic historiographer whose writing was chosen for a full translation and comprehensive study in its entirety by one and the same leading scholar in the field. With both volumes in hand, al-Azdi’s doubtless very significant oeuvre will not merely attain its proper place in the canon of early Muslim historiography, but will instantly become one of its best-studied representatives too."
Mónika Schönléber, Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, Hungary; Acta Orientalia Hung. 73 (2020).
