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MUSLIM SOCIAL VALUES AND LITERARY CRITICISM Reflections on the l;IadIth of Umm Zar by Franz Rosenthal Hamden, Conn. Rudo/j Sellheim zum 65. Geburtstag The lengthy Prophetic tradition known by its principal character as /:Iadrth Umm Zar (UZ) describes in artful literary terms how eleven women praised or criticized their respective husbands. It found extraordinary attention in Muslim religion and literature and deserves, as I hope will become clear in the following pages, another look from the Orientalist point of view. It is not that there remains anything essential for me to contribute to what a multitude of Muslim scholars have said about it during the course of more than a millen nium, but a discussion of it is clearly part of the Orientalists' main task to pro mote a sound understanding of the intellectual history of Islam through the publication and interpretation of solid data from the sources, even if these data may be but insignificant drops in a vast ocean. UZ, of which a tentative translation will be given in an appendix below, had the good fortune of becoming attached to the Prophet himself. The claim was made that the Prophet had compared himself to the (fictional) husband
Oriens – Brill
Published: Jan 18, 1994
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