商品簡介
In the early 1600s Europe began exporting tobacco to Turkey and it quickly caught on. This original text and translation of Al-Aqhisari's Epistle on Tobacco, written sometime before 1600, draws on the Qur'an, hadith, and then current medicinal evidence to forcefully make its case against smoking. Although the title page credits Michot (Islamic studies and Christian-Muslim relations, Hartford Seminary) with merely providing a translation and introduction, upon observation this appears to be an understatement. The book includes fifty three pages of new text versus eleven pages of the original Arabic text. It includes explanatory footnotes, tables of correspondence, and collations of manuscripts. Several different indexes are provided such as to hadiths of the prophet, Qur'anic verses, and groups and doctrines. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Ahmad al-Rumi Al-Aqhisari: (d. 1041) was a reformer and scholar from Anatolia, largely forgotten in his own country, but whose influence can be traced as far away as India in the 19th century.
Yahya Michot: Yahya Michot lectured at Louvain and from 1998 to 2008, taught Islamic theology at the University of Oxford. He is now professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary (Connecticut). He devoted earlier books to cannabis and Sufism in Mamluk Egypt (2001), and to opium and coffee in Ottoman Turkey (2008).
