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ANGELS IN ISLAM A Commentary with Selected Translations of Jalal al-Dïn al-Suyütï’s Al-Habâ’ik fïakhbâr al-malâ’ik (The Arrangement of the Traditions about Angels') S. R. Burge Doctor of Philosophy The University of Edinburgh 2009 A loose-leaf from a MS of al-Qazwini’s, c Aja ’ib fimakhluqat (British Library) Source: Du Ry, Carel J., Art of Islam (New York: Abrams, 1971), p. 188 This thesis presents a commentary with selected translations of Jalal al-Dîn c Abd al- Rahman al-Suyütî’s Al-Haba’ik fi akhbar al-mala’ik (The Arrangement of the Traditions about Angels). The work is a collection of around 750 hadith about angels, followed by a postscript (khatima) that discusses theological questions regarding their status in Islam. The first section of this thesis looks at the state of the study of angels in Islam, which has tended to focus on specific issues or narratives. However, there has been little study of the angels in Islamic tradition outside studies of