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Indeed, emphasising the miraculous and marvellous aspects of the life of the Prophet until his death, it has for longer than three centuries been a reference text of religious devotion throughout the Muslim world. Therefore, the purpose of the present essay is a systematic analysis of its contents, specifically across the different sections of the prose text (<\/span><em><span lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">nathr<\/span><\/em><span lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">) of al-Barzanj\u012b\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><em><span lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Mawlid<\/span><\/em><span lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">, with particular attention to all the Qur\u2019\u0101nic references, along with those related to the\u00a0<\/span><em><span lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Sunna<\/span><\/em><span lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><em><span lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">al-S\u012bra al-nabawiyya<\/span><\/em><span lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":30900,"template":"","class_list":["post-30904","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"date_tournage":"","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Genre of the Mawlid Narrative in the mid-12th h.\/18th Century as Exemplified by al-Barzanj\u012b - Pluriel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/en\/article\/the-genre-of-the-mawlid-narrative-in-the-mid-12th-h-18th-century-as-exemplified-by-al-barzanji\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Genre of the Mawlid Narrative in the mid-12th h.\/18th Century as Exemplified by al-Barzanj\u012b - Pluriel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Among the works of Arabic literature concerning the genre of Mawlid, certainly al-Barzanj\u012b\u2019s\u00a0Mawlid\u00a0is a text that has achieved great popularity and spread to large parts of the Islamic world. 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