Tuesday, February 20, 2024

SLAEI is coming back

Over the first decade of the 2000s I filled my shelf with Darwin Press' series on Late Antiquity and Early Islam - SLAEI. Indeed, when they were in print, they slaei'd it. From Andreas Goerke I find that Gerlach Press has been reissuing a lot of it - excepting Hoyland, whose tome Gorgias Press snapped up. And more: at least of what Gerlach hasn't posted already, are coming translations and second-editions.

That's where Goerke is coming in: The Earliest Writings on the Life of Muḥammad (2008) now in English with four more chapters by Gregor Schoeler. (I used to call this dynamic-duo, "The Umlauts".)

Although, with the focus on ʿUrwa [bin al-Zubayr], do we... need this? Some of us have ʿUrwa already from Sean Anthony's Muḥammad and the Empires of Faith. We could argue that the documentary genre is looking better than the Muslims themselves have creditted it.

Are we getting second-editions from Lecker and Rubin? Maybe Lecker might have summat new to report on those treaties.

Do Gerlach have plans to resurrect the nonpublished material Darwin didn't get to? Will we be seeing more content in future?

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