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Michael Cooperson

    Michael Cooperson è uno studioso e traduttore dedicato a illuminare il panorama della letteratura araba, in particolare le sue tradizioni classiche. Il suo lavoro accademico approfondisce le vite e le eredità intellettuali di figure chiave, offrendo spunti sui loro contesti storici e culturali. Come traduttore, Cooperson colma le lacune linguistiche, rendendo significative opere arabe accessibili a un pubblico globale. Attraverso la sua rigorosa erudizione e le sue ponderate traduzioni, rivela la ricchezza e la complessità del pensiero e della cultura araba per i lettori contemporanei.

    Classical Arabic Biography
    • Classical Arabic Biography

      The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of Al-Ma'mun

      • 242pagine
      • 9 ore di lettura

      Premodern Arabic biography has served as a major source for the history of Islamic civilization. In the first book-length study to explore the origins and development of classical Arabic biography, Michael Cooperson demonstrates how Muslim scholars used the notions of heirship and transmission to document the activities of political, scholarly and religious communities. The author also explains how medieval Arab scholars used biography to reconstruct the life stories of important historical figures. He then examines the careers of four of these figures, analyzing their relationships and their place in later biography. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Note on transliteration; Note on dating systems; Glossary; 1. The development of the genre; 2. The caliph al-Ma'mun; 3. The Imam 'Ali al'Rida; 4. The Hadith-scholar Ahmad Ibn Hanbal; 5. The renunciant Bishr al-Hafi; Conclusions; Appendix: the circumstances of 'Ali al-Rida's death; Bibliography; Index.

      Classical Arabic Biography