Reliance of the Traveler : A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law
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Nuh Ha Mim Keller
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About The Book
The new edition of the in-depth manual of Islamic law based on the Shafi'i school of thought, with a detailed index and commentary on specific rulings. 1,200 pages in an exceptional binding with Arabic and facing English text in two column format with occasional diagrams. 'Umdat al-Salik wa 'Uddat al-Nasik (Reliance of the Traveler and tools of the Worshiper) is a classic manual of fiqh. It represents the fiqh rulings according to the Shafi'i school of jurisprudence.
The appendices form an integral part of the book and present original texts and translations from classic works by prominent scholars such as al-Ghazali, Ibn Qudamah, al-Nawawi, al-Qurturbi, al-Dhahabi, Ibn Hajar and other, on topics of Islamic law, faith, spirituality, Qur'anic exegesis and Hadith sciences.
It has also biographical notes about every person mentioned (391 biographies), bibliography of each work cited (136 works), and a detailed subject index (95 pages). Of the 136 works drawn upon in its commentary and appendices, 134 are in the original Arabic. The sections and paragraphs have been numbered to facilitate cross-reference.
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About the author
Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri: Imam Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri rahimahullah (702-769 AH / 1302-1368 CE) was a recognized authority within the traditional Sunni discipline of fiqh, working within the Shafi'i school. His most celebrated work, Umdat al-Salik wa Uddat al-Nasik (known in its English translation as Reliance of the Traveler), is a comprehensive manual of Shafi'i sacred law that has endured as a foundational text in classical and contemporary Shafi'i scholarship and teaching. The work was translated into English by Shaykh Nuh Ha Mim Keller, and its translation received formal certification from al-Azhar University - the first Islamic legal work in a European language to do so.
About the translator
Nuh Ha Mim Keller: Nuh Ha Mim Keller (b. 1954 CE) is an American Islamic scholar, translator, and Sufi teacher who has lived and taught in Amman, Jordan, since the 1990s. Born in Washington State to a German American family, he studied philosophy and Arabic at the University of Chicago and UCLA, and embraced Islam in 1977 after a path that began in Roman Catholicism. He is best known for Reliance of the Traveller (1991), his richly annotated English translation of ʿUmdat al-Salik, a classical manual of Shafiʿi sacred law. It was the first Islamic legal work in a European language to receive certification from al-Azhar, and it remains a standard English reference for Shafiʿi fiqh. He also produced Al-Maqasid, a translation of Imam al-Nawawi's concise manual of worship, alongside fiqh studies such as Port in a Storm, on the qibla in North America, and essays on the concept of bidʿa. On the Sufi path, Keller was a longtime disciple of the Damascene Shadhili master and poet Shaykh ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Shaghouri, with whom he studied from 1982 until the shaykh's death in 2004, and who authorized him as a shaykh in the order in 1996. His Sea Without Shore presents a manual of the Sufi path. Through his translations, teaching circles, and a seminary he established in Amman, he has become a widely read voice for traditional Sunni scholarship and Sufism in the English-speaking world.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9789159577281
Publisher
Amana Publications
Author
Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri
Pages
1232
Translator
Nuh Ha Mim Keller
Year Published
1997
Size
W-6.5 in | H-9.5 in | D-2.2 in
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