Ibn Gauzi's Kitab al-Wafa fi fada'il al Mustafa : nach der Leidener Handschrift untersucht

This collection of essays concerns Ottoman literature in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Mingnon raises questions about commonly-accepted assumptions about the nature of Ottoman literary history. This investigation of Abu-al-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzi's al-Wafa bi Fada'il al-Mustafa, according to the Leiden manuscript by one of Germany's foremost Semiticists, is essential reading for anyone interested in Arabic history and literature. Ibn al-Jawzi was a twelfth-century jurist and perhaps the most prolific writer in the history of Arabic literature. Al-Wafa bi Fada'il al-Mustafa (Detailed Accounts of the Chosen Prophet), is a large work on the biography of the prophet Muhammad. In this manuscript study, Brockelmann analyzes several aspects of this composition, including citations of this work by other notable Islamic writers Ibn Gauzi's Kitab al-Wafa fi fadafil al Mustafa