The Ninety-nine Beautiful Names of God Ramadan "--BOOK JACKET

"--BOOK JACKET

Shaykh al-Islam Zakariyya al-Ansari and al-Khatib al-Shirbini

rise to fame

unnoticed by their teachers

As the new teller of these tales Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography

The Ninety-nine Beautiful Names of God Ramadan "--BOOK JACKETIn this work, here presented in a complete English edition for the first time, the problem of knowing God is confronted in an original and stimulating way. Taking up the Prophet's teaching that 'Ninety nine Beautiful Names' are truly predicated of God, the author explores the meaning and resonance of each of these divine names, and reveals the functions they perform both in the cosmos and in the soul of the spiritual adept. Although some of the book