Book Review: Tantawi Jawhari and the Qurʾan: Tafsir and Social Concerns in the Twentieth Century
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.
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Gibril Haddad
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