A failure at the gate

Dr "Tron Honto" Anthony goes back to his reviewer roots and has at Ibrahim Mohamed Zein and Ahmed El-Wakil. The latter of whom we've met.

A major university of Qatar approved this thing - which we must sigh and accept, as a product of Qatari geopolitik. More troubling, for the rest of us, is that Routledge published it. Thus, with Craig Considine, laundering Islamic-"revert" John Andrew Morrow.

Honest scholars would have taken Considine to task by way of taking Morrow's selfpub seriously. But Zein and el-Wakil are no more honest than is Considine. An honest publisher would have refused their book, as transparently taking current-year kumbaya over Veritas. Routledge seems no longer an honest publisher. I am reminded how the Slavic Orthodoxy still clings to the Constitutio ascribed to Constantine, infamous for the donatio. Anyway, now Dr Anthony can't ignore el-Wakil (or Zein), although I bet the duo are now wishing he had.

Anthony devotes footnote #4 for better scholarship. Some of it has been used at this my blog; others may supplement it. Here I discuss the late-'Abbasi redo of the "Pact of 'Umar"; here I discuss Lecker on the correspondence which Mirza may supplement.

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