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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.

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