Aishah, the Beloved of Mohammed - Softcover

Abbott, Nabia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0863560075 ISBN 13: 9780863560071

Verlag: Saqi Books, 1998

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Reseña del editor:

The story of Aishah, the Prophet Mohammed's favourite wife. The text tells of how she lived several decades after Mohammed's death and was deeply involved in the political conflict and civil war that shaped the early Muslim state.

Biografía del autor:

Nabia Abbott was born in Turkey in 1897. As a young child she was taken by her family across the Middle East to India, where she was educated in British schools and remained until after the First World War. Later she lived in Iraq and finally in the United States, where in 1933 she became the first female faculty member of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. A leading scholar of Arabic, she specialised in deciphering early Islamic papyri. Abbott was the author of seven books and dozens of magazine articles. She died in 1981.

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• Verlag: Saqi Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0863560075
• ISBN 13: 9780863560071
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240