Al-Arba'in al-Nawawiyyah ("al-Nawawi's Forty") is a compilation of forty hadiths by Imam al-Nawawi, a thirteenth-century ce scholar and one of the most eminent and revered authorities in Islamic jurisprudence. These hadiths, or reports of the Prophet Muhammad's sayings, derive mainly from al-Bukhari and Muslim, who, in the ninth century ce, collected the hadiths that are considered the soundest and most authentic by Muslims today. Al-Nawawi's distillation was undertaken with the objective of establishing an "axis of Islam". Indeed, it became one of the most influential texts in Islam down to the present day. In this volume, Dr Mahmoud Makkouk has translated al-Nawawi's Forty anew, adding commentary and jurisprudence after each hadith.
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Dr Mahmoud Makkouk was born in Beirut in 1948. He obtained an MA in Humanities from the Lebanese University, and received a scholarship to pursue doctorate studies in UK. He earned a diplôme d'études approfondie from the Université de Saint-Etienne, and undertook his second doctorate at Imam al-Ouzai University's Faculty of Islamic Studies in Beirut. He has taught at many schools in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, and at universities such as the Lebanese University (LU); American University of Beirut (AUB); and Arts, Sciences and Technology University in Lebanon (AUL). Currently, he is Chair of the English Department and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at AUL in Beirut.
