Interview with Sean Anthony on translating the Maghazi

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OP - July 11, 2014, 05:15 PM

http://www.libraryofarabicliterature.org/2014/salty-language-and-a-plurality-of-voices-an-interview-with-sean-anthony-on-translating-the-maghazi/

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Sean W. Anthony, assistant professor of history at the University of Oregon, brings a historian’s eye to his work editing and translating Maʿmar ibn Rāshid’s Maghāzī, or The Expeditions: An Early Biography of Muḥammad. The text explores the early life of the prophet and his community and, as Anthony says, contains “humor, adventure, tragedy, and all the ingredients of great stories.”

In an interview with M. Lynx Qualey, Anthony talks about why there are so few scholarly biographies of Muḥammad, why reading J.R.R. Tolkien helped in the translation process, and what we can learn from Maʿmar’s work about the “real” Muḥammad.

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Reply #1 - July 11, 2014, 05:18 PM

Saw that interview earlier, it's a really terrific interview and a fantastic overview of the current field!

Loved this, for example:

"What’s more, it’s also somewhat of an open secret in the field that the last major attempt to produce a comprehensive biography of the Prophet by an Anglophone scholar, Muhammad at Mecca and Muhammad at Medina by W. Montgomery Watt, is viewed now, I’m sorry to say, as an abject failure in terms of historical methodology. "
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