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Article: Abu Salif Ahmad Ali al-Adani (tr.): The Secrets of Asceticism.(Book review)
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- Islam & Science
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- June 22, 2009
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Abu Salif Ahmad Ali al-Adani (tr.): The Secrets of Asceticism Bristol: Amal Press, 2008, Pb, 143 pp, ISBN: 978-0-9552359-6-2
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 ...