The Journal of the American Oriental Society, April 1st, 1998
Translated by MlICHEL CHODKIEWICZ. Albany: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 1995. Pp. ix + 233. $16.95 (paper).
The publication of an English translation of Michel Chodkiewicz's selection of texts from the Kitab al-Mawaqif (Book of "Stops," or "Halts")(1) of the famous North African mujahidcure-marabout, Amir Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza iri (d. 1300/1883), is a welcome event for Ibn al-Arabi studies in English, even apart from the value that the book will have in its own proper field (somewhat neglected in the United States), relating to a seminal figure in the nascent history of Algeria and th...
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