Muḥammad Rabadán
Muḥammad Rabadán (fl. c. 1600) was an
lives of the Islamic prophets
.
Discurso de la luz de Muhamad
Rabadán's Discurso de la luz de Muhamad begins with a canto praising
Iblīs, Noah and Abraham. Subsequent cantos recount the lives of all the Jewish prophets as far as Jesus (including Jesus himself), and Arab prophets as far as Muḥammad. The life Muḥammad himself is told across five cantos, concluding with his death. The work closes by listing the ninety-nine names of Allāh, explaining each in Spanish.[1] The text was a major influence on the understanding of Islam of the eighteenth-century English historian Joseph Morgan.[2]
Other works
Rabadán has been identified as the author of a sixteenth-century Spanish poem recounting a hajj, "Coplas del peregrino de Puey Monçón". Twenty-first-century scholarship regarded the attribution as unlikely, however.[3]
Editions
- The Poetry of Mohamed Rabadan of Arragon, ed. by H. E. J. Stanley (Brentford: Austin, 1867).
References
- ISBN 9789004125896.
- ISBN 9004402837.
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