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Reliance of the Traveller
Umdat as-Salik wa 'Uddat an-Nasik (Reliance of the Traveller and Tools of the Worshipper, also commonly known by its shorter title Reliance of the Traveller) is a classical manual of fiqh for the Shafi'i school of Islamic jurisprudence. The author of the main text is the 14th-century scholar Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn al-Naqib al-Misri (AH 702–769 / AD 1302–1368). Al-Misri closely followed the order and conclusions of Nawawi's encyclopedic al-Majmu' , a commentary on Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi's al-Muhadhdhab (The Rarefaction), together with its addendum, the Takmila of Taqi al-Din al-Subki.
In 1991, an English translation by Nuh Ha Mim Keller became the first translation of a standard Islamic legal reference into a European language to be certified by Al-Azhar University in Egypt.
Umdat as-Salik was translated into English by the American Muslim scholar Nuh Ha Mim Keller in 1991 and became the first translation of a standard Islamic legal reference in a European language to be certified by Al-Azhar University; the certification is reproduced in the book. The translation comprises 26 sections titled according to the letters of the English alphabet, Book A, Book B, Book C, etc.
Books A through C contain introductory material forming a guide to fiqh compiled by Keller. Books D through O correspond to the original work of al-Misri, commencing with an "Author's Introduction". Following are translations of a series of shorter works (Books P through V) which address topics such as personal ethics, character, and traditional Islamic Sufism, and include famous classical texts such as Al-Ghazzali's Ihya' 'ulum al-din and Nawawi's Riyadh as-Saaliheen. Book W consists of extensive notes and appendices, Book X offers thumbnail biographies of hundreds of figures mentioned throughout the work, and Books Y and Z conclude it with a bibliography and indexes.
Certain sections of the book were left untranslated (although the original Arabic text is retained), as Keller considered them irrelevant to modern societies. These parts include sections on slavery, describing the rights and duties of slaves and their masters, which a translator's note describes as left untranslated "because the issue is no longer current".
The contents of the translation are as follows:
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Reliance of the Traveller
Umdat as-Salik wa 'Uddat an-Nasik (Reliance of the Traveller and Tools of the Worshipper, also commonly known by its shorter title Reliance of the Traveller) is a classical manual of fiqh for the Shafi'i school of Islamic jurisprudence. The author of the main text is the 14th-century scholar Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn al-Naqib al-Misri (AH 702–769 / AD 1302–1368). Al-Misri closely followed the order and conclusions of Nawawi's encyclopedic al-Majmu' , a commentary on Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi's al-Muhadhdhab (The Rarefaction), together with its addendum, the Takmila of Taqi al-Din al-Subki.
In 1991, an English translation by Nuh Ha Mim Keller became the first translation of a standard Islamic legal reference into a European language to be certified by Al-Azhar University in Egypt.
Umdat as-Salik was translated into English by the American Muslim scholar Nuh Ha Mim Keller in 1991 and became the first translation of a standard Islamic legal reference in a European language to be certified by Al-Azhar University; the certification is reproduced in the book. The translation comprises 26 sections titled according to the letters of the English alphabet, Book A, Book B, Book C, etc.
Books A through C contain introductory material forming a guide to fiqh compiled by Keller. Books D through O correspond to the original work of al-Misri, commencing with an "Author's Introduction". Following are translations of a series of shorter works (Books P through V) which address topics such as personal ethics, character, and traditional Islamic Sufism, and include famous classical texts such as Al-Ghazzali's Ihya' 'ulum al-din and Nawawi's Riyadh as-Saaliheen. Book W consists of extensive notes and appendices, Book X offers thumbnail biographies of hundreds of figures mentioned throughout the work, and Books Y and Z conclude it with a bibliography and indexes.
Certain sections of the book were left untranslated (although the original Arabic text is retained), as Keller considered them irrelevant to modern societies. These parts include sections on slavery, describing the rights and duties of slaves and their masters, which a translator's note describes as left untranslated "because the issue is no longer current".
The contents of the translation are as follows:
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