The Genre of the Mawlid Narrative in the Mid-12th h./18th Century as Exemplified by al-Barzanjī

Among the works of Arabic literature concerning the genre of Mawlid,\r\ncertainly al-Barzanjī’s Mawlid is a text that has achieved great popularity and spread\r\nto large parts of the Islamic world. Indeed, emphasising the miraculous and marvellous\r\naspects of the life of the Prophet until his death, it has for longer than three centuries been\r\na reference text of religious devotion throughout the Muslim world. Therefore, the purpose\r\nof the present essay is a systematic analysis of its contents, specifically across the different\r\nsections of the prose text (nathr) of al-Barzanjī’s Mawlid, with particular attention to all\r\nthe Qur’ānic references, along with those related to the Sunna and al-Sīra al-nabawiyya.