WHAT ʿĪSĀ IBN HISHĀM TOLD US
LIBRARY OF ARABIC LITERATURE
EDITORIAL BOARD
GENERAL EDITOR
Philip F. Kennedy, New York University
EXECUTIVE EDITORS
James E. Montgomery, University of Cambridge
Shawkat M. Toorawa, Yale University
EDITORS
Sean Anthony, The Ohio State University
Julia Bray, University of Oxford
Michael Cooperson, University of California, Los Angeles
Joseph E. Lowry, University of Pennsylvania
Maurice Pomerantz, New York University Abu Dhabi
Tahera Qutbuddin, University of Chicago
Devin J. Stewart, Emory University
EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
Chip Rossetti
DIGITAL PRODUCTION MANAGER
Stuart Brown
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Amanda Yee
FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM COORDINATOR
Amani Al-Zoubi
LETTER FROM THE GENERAL EDITOR
The Library of Arabic Literature series offers Arabic editions and English translations of significant works of Arabic literature, with an emphasis on the seventh to nineteenth centuries. The Library of Arabic Literature thus includes texts from the pre-Islamic era to the cusp of the modern period, and encompasses a wide range of genres, including poetry, poetics, fiction, religion, philosophy, law, science, history, and historiography.
Books in the series are edited and translated by internationally recognized scholars and are published in parallel-text format with Arabic and English on facing pages, and are also made available as English-only paperbacks.
The Library encourages scholars to produce authoritative, though not necessarily critical, Arabic editions, accompanied by modern, lucid English translations. Its ultimate goal is to introduce the rich, largely untapped Arabic literary heritage to both a general audience of readers as well as to scholars and students.
The Library of Arabic Literature is supported by a grant from the New York University Abu Dhabi Institute and is published by NYU Press.
Philip F. Kennedy
General Editor, Library of Arabic Literature
ABOUT THIS PAPERBACK
This paperback edition differs in a few respects from its dual-language hardcover predecessor. Because of the compact trim size the pagination has changed, but paragraph numbering has been retained to facilitate cross-referencing with the hardcover. Material that referred to the Arabic edition has been updated to reflect the English-only format, and other material has been corrected and updated where appropriate. For information about the Arabic edition on which this English translation is based and about how the LAL Arabic text was established, readers are referred to the hardcover.
WHAT ʿĪSĀ IBN HISHĀM TOLD US
OR
A PERIOD OF TIME
BY
MUḤAMMAD AL-MUWAYLIḤĪ
TRANSLATED BY
ROGER ALLEN
FOREWORD BY
MARIA GOLIA
VOLUME EDITOR
PHILIP F. KENNEDY
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Muwayliḥī, Muḥammad author. | Allen, Roger, 1942– translator. | Kennedy, Philip F. editor. | Muwayliḥī, Muḥammad. Ḥadīth ʻIsā ibn Hishām. English. | Muwayliḥī, Muḥammad. Ḥadīth ʻIsā ibn Hishām.
Title: What 'Isa ibn Hisham told us or, A period of time / Muḥammad al- Muwayliḥī ; translated by Roger Allen ; foreword by Maria Golia ; volume editor, Philip F. Kennedy.
Other titles: Period of time
Description: New York : New York University, 2018. | Series: The library of Arabic literature | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017046583 (print) | LCCN 2017045494 (ebook) | ISBN 9781479840915 (paperback) | ISBN 9781479836710 (Ebook) | ISBN 9781479820993 (Ebook)
Classification: LCC PJ7850.U9 H313 2018 (ebook) | LCC PJ7850.U9 (print) | DDC 892.7/35—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017046583
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CONTENTS
Letter from the General Editor
Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 21, September 8, 1898
Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 23, September 22, 1898
Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 24, September 29, 1898
Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 30, November 10, 1898