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kann. Die einen Kommentatoren instrumentalisieren ihre Vorlage für eigene Zwecke,<br />
andere arbeiten mit Mitteln, die schon die moderne Textkritik vorwegnehmen.<br />
Kommentare werden mit dem Grundtext kontaminiert und umgekehrt.<br />
Frühmittelalterliche Übersetzer greifen in den Text ein, um ein für die Leser<br />
gefälliges Produkt herzustellen und frühe Humanisten erfinden aus demselben<br />
Grund ganze Passagen ihrer Editionen selbst. Der Rez. findet dies alles spannender<br />
als so manchen Kriminalroman und ist erfreut, dass er mit dieser Ansicht<br />
noch nicht allein ist. 9<br />
Fabian Käs: Biburg, F.Kaes@gmx.de<br />
John Renard (ed.): Tales of God’s Friends. Islamic Hagiography in Translation.<br />
Berkeley, Los Angeles and London 2009: University of California Press, XV +<br />
413S. ISBN 978-0-520-25896-9, $ 24.95.<br />
This anthology was designed as a companion volume to the editor’s other book<br />
on Islamic saints, Friends of God. 1 The editor writes, “The present anthology seeks<br />
to provide through primary sources a sense of the multiple facets and expansive<br />
dimensions of Islamic hagiography” (p. xi). The book contains twenty-seven<br />
chapters, each of which contains a translated hagiographic text with a bibliographical<br />
introduction and provides an overview of the complex reality of Islamic<br />
hagiography.<br />
The anthology deals with the hagiography of different regions, from Morocco<br />
to China; its chapters are ordered geographically, from East to West, and are arranged<br />
in six parts. (Part 1: The Arab Middle East and North Africa, Part 2: Iran<br />
and Afghanistan, Part 3: Turkey and Central Asia, Part 4: Africa: West and East,<br />
Part 5: South Asia, and Part 6: Southeast Asia and East Asia.) Naturally, the languages<br />
of original texts, of which there are seventeen, are quite diverse: Arabic,<br />
Persian, Kurdish, Pashtu, Chaghatay Turkic, Turkish, Wolof, Fulfulde (Fulani),<br />
Hausa, Swahili, Siraiki, Gujarati, Urdu, Bengali, Malay, Indonesian and Chinese.<br />
The saints covered in these chapters include some who are known to almost<br />
9 Errata: S. 15,8 statt 805] lies 804; S. 65,15 peÜma] pneÜma; 167,3 ] ; 180,21 hrvbh]<br />
Xrvbh; 180,-6 ^elyono©] ^elyonim; 256,19 empiricists] methodics. Die englischen Zitate S. 30 und<br />
40 stimmen nicht bzw. nicht ganz mit dem arabischen Text überein.<br />
1 John Renard, Friends of God. Islamic Images of Piety, Commitment, and Servanthood. Berkeley,<br />
Los Angeles and London 2008.