A Response to Shabbir A. Abbas’ Review of The Words of God to Prophet Muhammad

Abstract

Shabbir A. Abbas, a graduate student from Rutgers University, completed a thorough and thoughtful review of my work, The Words of God to Prophet Muhammad: Forty Sacred Sayings, in the American Journal of Islamic Socials Sciences 34, no. 2 (spring 2017): 102-04. Abbas provides relevant biographical and bibliographical information about Sayyid Hasan Shirazi, the compiler of Kalimat Allāh from which I drew the Forty Hadith and presented in Arabic along with my English translation. I am pleased that the reviewer described my translation as “refreshingly accurate… and … perfectly intelligible.” I am also honored that he described my preface as “excellent.” ...