Review
The French original of this work has stood for most of this century as a model of the way Western scholarship can illumine a foreign culture, not patronize or denature it... This translation climaxes one of the most focused projects of humanistic scholarship this century has seen. -- Huston Smith Commonweal An incomparable study of the religious forces, the social and political life, and the whole culture of the Islamic world within which [this saint] lived and died. -- Seyyed Hossein Nasr Speculum: A Journal of Mediaeval Studies
Review
The French original of this work has stood for most of this century as a model of the way Western scholarship can illumine a foreign culture, not patronize or denature it.... This translation climaxes one of the most focused projects of humanistic scholarship this century has seen.
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Huston Smith Commonweal )
An incomparable study of the religious forces, the social and political life, and the whole culture of the Islamic world within which [this saint] lived and died.
(
Seyyed Hossein Nasr Speculum: A Journal of Mediaeval Studies )
