Intimate Invocations: Al-Ghazzī's Biography of 'Abd Al-Ghanī Al-Nābulusī (1641-1731) (Islamic History and Civilization) (Arabic and English Edition) - Hardcover

Akkach, Samer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004211411 ISBN 13: 9789004211414

Publisher: Brill, 2012

Synopsis

Despite the growing interest in the intellectual history of early modern Arabs and Ottomans, many key figures of the period remain unknown. In this unique biographical account, edited and published here for the first time, Muḥammad Kamāl al-Dīn al-Ghazzī (1760-1799), the chief Shafi'i jurisconcult of Damascus, introduces us to one of the leading figures of early modernity, 'Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī (1641-1731). Being al-Nābulusī's great grandson, al-Ghazzī had direct access to the family's collective memory through his parents and grandparents, as well as to his great grandfather's scattered memoirs. Written about fifty years after al-Nābulusī's death, al-Ghazzī's biography, al-Wird al-Unsī, remains the authoritative account of the great master's distinguished career, covering many aspects of his life and work in breadth, depth, and sophistication unmatched by any of the competing biographies.

About this title

About the Author:

Samer Akkach, PhD (1992) in Architecture, University of Sydney, is Associate Professor in Architectural History and Theory and Founding Director of the Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture at Adelaide University. His major works include Letters of a Sufi Scholar, ‘Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi, and Cosmology and Architecture in Premodern Islam.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 9004211411
• ISBN 13: 9789004211414
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 860