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This major new translation of Muhammad B quir as-Sadr's classic text is rendered directly from the original Arabic by one of the world's leading Islamic scholars, and includes an introduction, a glossary of legal and theological concepts, and a full index of Arabic terms.

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9781851683932

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Reviews for The Mantle of the Prophet '[Mottahedeh] has drawn on a massive amount of learning, but he has got the scholarly apparatus out of the way and made his book accessible to a wide audience.' - New York Times Book Review 'A masterpiece [displaying] dazzling erudition.' - New York Review of Books

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Muhammad B quir as-Sadr, a highly renowned scholar of Islamic jurisprudence and economics, was assassinated in Iraq, under the regime of Saddam Hussein, in 1980. Roy Parviz Mottahedeh is Gurney Professor of History in the Middle East Studies Department at Harvard University, and author of the acclaimed The Mantle of the Prophet.

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