Intimate conversations (Munājayāt) and supplications (Adʿiya) in early Islamic literature: Yaḥyā ibn Muʿādh al-Rāzī (d. 258/872) and Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī (d. c. 414/1023) as case studies

This article examines intimate conversations (munājayāt) and supplications (adʿiya) as a distinctive literary style within the early Islamic-Arabic tradition of the third/ninth and fourth/tenth centuries. It focuses on the invocatory writings of Yaḥyā ibn Muʿādh al-Rāzī (d. 258/872) and the supplica...

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Published in:	British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies Vol. 53; no. 3; pp. 759 - 780
Main Author:	Salamah-Qudsi, Arin
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul2026
Subjects:	Social justice Islamic literature Devotional literature Devotions Sufism Muslim scholars
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