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Book Review: Tantawi Jawhari and the Qurʾan: Tafsir and Social Concerns in the Twentieth Century​

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This is a partial translation of the celebrated Andalusian Qur'an commentator Abu 'Abd Allah al-Qurtubi's (d. 671/1273) manual on simple living entitled "The subduing of greed through abstinence and contentment and the repelling of the humiliation of beggary through handwritten requests and intercession" (Qam al-Hirsi bil-Zuhdi wal-Qana'a wa-Raddu Dhulli al-Su'ali bil-Kutbi wal-Shafa'a), which Maliki-trained South Africa lawyer Ahmad Ali al-Adani renders as "The curbing of covetousness by doing-without and contentment, and repelling the abasement of asking by books and intercession" (p. 3) and which has received several editions in Egypt and Lebanon since the eighties.

Journal of Islam & Science, Vol. 7 (Summer 2009) No. 1

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Gibril Haddad

Gibril Fouad Haddad is Assistant Professor at the Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien Centre for Islamic Studies, University Brunei Darussalam.

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