1st Edition

The Life of Muhammad Al-Waqidi's Kitab al-Maghazi

Edited By Rizwi Faizer Copyright 2011
608 Pages
by Routledge

608 Pages
by Routledge

608 Pages
by Routledge

Muhammad b. ‘Umar al-Waqidi was a Muslim scholar, born in Medina in the 1st Century. Of his several writings the most significant is the Kitab al-Maghazi, one of the earliest standard histories of the life of the Prophet. Translated into English for the first time, Rizwi Faizer makes available this key text to a new, English-speaking audience. It includes an "Introduction" authored jointly... Read more

Foreword Andrew Rippin  Introduction Rizwi Faizer  Al-Waqidi’s Kitab al-Maghazi

Biography

Rizwi Faizer is an independent scholar, formerly of McGill University. She has previously worked at the Asian Council for Law and Development in Colombo, Sri Lanka, before writing her MA thesis on Muslims Ethno-politics in Sri Lanka at the University of New Brunswick and her PhD in Islamic Studies in Montreal.