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Book SynopsisThe Third Edition of Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Islam is an entirely new work, with new articles reflecting the great diversity of current scholarship. It appears in four substantial segments each year, both online and in print. The new scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century and of Muslim minorities all over the world.Table of ContentsAbū Saʿīd b. Sulṭān Muḥammad b. Mīrānshāh Ahi Āl-i Aḥmad, Jalāl ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā b. Dāʾūd b. al-Jarrāḥ ʿAlizāda, Ghazāla Alp Arslan Aminu Kano Antemoro Aqın Archives and Chanceries: pre-1500, in Arabic Argot (Turkish) al-Asad, Ḥāfiẓ Ashrafī Atai ʿĀtika bint Shuhda Āzād Bilgrāmī, Ghulām ʿAlī ʿAzza al-Maylāʾ Baki Baltacıoğlu, İsmayıl Hakkı Baqqāl-bāzī Bashīr, Vaikam Muḥammad Bazaar, Indian Subcontinent Beste Beyşehir Birgi Bohras Book Bosnia and Herzegovina Boumedienne Cadiz Daniel al-Qūmisī Dār al-Funūn, Iranian al-Dārānī, Abū Sulaymān al-Daylamī, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan Diyarbekri, Abdussamed Fakih Usman, Kyai Haji al-Fātiḥa Favour (divine) Fayʾ Fez Flores Fodi Kabba Dumbuya Fondaco Franks Funerary practices Gardizi al-Ghumārī, ʿAlī b. Maymūn al-Fāsī Gresik Gulshīrī, Hūshang al-Hararī, ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad Yūsuf Pir Sultan Abdal al-Samarqandī, Abū Ṭāhir Sarāy Malik Khānum

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Book SynopsisThe Third Edition of Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Islam is an entirely new work, with new articles reflecting the great diversity of current scholarship. It appears in four substantial segments each year, both online and in print. The new scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century and of Muslim minorities all over the world.Table of Contentsal-ʿAbbās b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī ʿAbd al-Ḥakīm ʿAbd al-Riḍā Khān Ibrāhīmī, Ḥājj Sarkār Āqā ʿAbdallāh b. Maymūn Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī Abū Bakr b. ʿAbdallāh Bā Kathīr al-Kindī Abū Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Africa Muslims Agency Aḥmad b. ʿAlī Manṣab al-Ḥusaynī [al-]Aḥmadiyya-Rashīdiyya Ālāol ʿAlawiyya (East Africa) Alevi music ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn Ali Ekber Hıtai Almaz Anastasiades, Leontinos Anjuman-i Khuddām-i al-Ṣūfiyya Arabesk Arabs (anthropology) ʿArīb ʿĀshūrāʾ (Shīʿism) Baal Baba Faraj Baggara (Baqqāra) al-Bakkāʾī, Aḥmad Bale Barṣīṣā Basiret Benjamin (Binyāmīn) al-Bīrūnī Bisṭāmī Shihāb al-Dīn al-Bughṭūrī, Maqrīn b. Muḥammad Canon and canonisation of the Qurʾān, in the Islamic religious sciences Celibacy Cetinje Contract law Dandanakan, Battle of Donkey (eschatological aspects) Eutychius of Alexandria al-Fatḥ al-Mawṣilī, Abū Naṣr Abū Muḥammad b. Saʿīd The flood Free verse, Arabic Friend of God al-Fuḍayl b. ʿIyāḍ Gagauz (language and literature) Genetic testing Geomancy Geuffroy, Antoine al-Ghāfiqī, Muḥammad b. Qassūm b. Aslam Ghamkolvi, Sufi Sahib Ghānim, Fatḥī Ghāzī al-Dīn Ḥaydar Ghulām Aḥmad, Mīrzā Ghulām ʿAlī Shāh Gifts Gog and Magog (Yājūj wa-Mājūj) Gondwāna Granada art and architecture Gregory Thaumaturgus Guarantee Makhlūf al-ʿAdawī, Muḥammad Ḥasanayn, al-Mālikī Zarrūq, Aḥmad

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Book SynopsisThe Third Edition of Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Islam is an entirely new work, with new articles reflecting the great diversity of current scholarship. It appears in four substantial segments each year, both online and in print. The new scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century and of Muslim minorities all over the world.Table of Contentsal-ʿAbbās b. al-Maʾmūn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Mūsā b. Nuṣayr ʿAbd al-Karīm Wāʿiẓ Emīr Efendī ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ʿAbd al-Muʾmin b. Khalaf al-Dimyāṭī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Aḥmad al-Zaylaʿī ʿAbd al-Waḥīd Turkistānī ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān ʿAbdallāh b. Muʿāwiya ʿAbdallāh b. Salām ʿAbdallāh Shaṭṭār Abkhaz Abu Dhabi Abū Ḥāmid al-Qudsī Adab b) and Islamic scholarship in the ʿAbbāsid period Adab c) and Islamic scholarship after the “Sunnī revival” Adhruḥ Ahmed Şemseddin b. İsa Marmaravi Yiğitbaşı Aleppo (pre-Ottoman) Ambiguity ʿĀmirids Apendi (Afandi) ʿAqīl Khān Rāzī Avlonya Āzurda Badr al-Dīn b. Qāḍī Samāwnā Bamba, Ahmadu Baqī b. Makhlad Barsbāy, al-Malik al-Ashraf Berkyaruq al-Bharūchī, Ḥasan b. Nuḥ b. Yūsuf al-Hindī Bilma Black Sea Boabdil Boran, Behice Brethren of Purity (Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ) al-Bulqīnī family al-Bundārī, al-Fatḥ b. ʿAlī Burdur Çaka Bey Çakmak, Fevzi Çorum Damanhūrī, Aḥmad Dandarāwiyya Dardic and Nuristani Languages Deposit Druzes (Durūz) Elixir Epicureanism Euclid Fahri of Bursa Fakiri (Kalkandelenli) Farāhānī, Adīb al-Mamālik Fikrī, ʿAbdallāh Fountain al-Fūrakī, Abū Bakr Galen Gecekondu (Turkey) Genç Kalemler Ghaylān al-Dimashqī Ghāzī Miyāṇ, Sālār Masʿūd Ghazw Ghūl Greek fire Gunābādiyya al-Mannūbiyya, Sayyida ʿĀʾisha Naon, Avram

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Book SynopsisThe Character of Christian-Muslim Encounter is a Festschrift in honour of David Thomas, Professor of Christianity and Islam, and Nadir Dinshaw Professor of Inter Religious Relations, at the University of Birmingham, UK. The Editors have put together a collection of over 30 contributions from colleagues of Professor Thomas that commences with a biographical sketch and representative tribute provided by a former doctoral student, and comprises a series of wide-ranging academic papers arranged to broadly reflect three dimensions of David Thomas’ academic and professional work – studies in and of Islam; Christian-Muslim relations; the Church and interreligious engagement. These are set in the context of a focussed theme – the character of Christian-Muslim encounters – and cast within a broad chronological framework. Contributors, excluding the editors, are: Clare Amos, John Azumah, Mark Beaumont, David Cheetham, Rifaat Ebied, Stanisław Grodź SVD, Alan Guenther, Damian Howard SJ, Michael Ipgrave, Muammer İskenderoğlu, Risto Jukko, Alex Mallett, Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, Lucinda Mosher, Gordon Nickel, Jørgen Nielsen, Claire Norton, Emilio Platti, Luis Bernabé Pons, Peniel Rajkumar, Peter Riddell, Umar Ryad, Andrew Sharp, Sigvard von Sicard, Richard Sudworth, Mark Swanson, Charles Tieszen, John Tolan, Davide Tacchini, Herman Teule, Albert Walters.Table of ContentsPublisher’s Preface Contributor Notes General Introduction Editors 1 David Thomas: The Hearing of Two Vocations—A Biographical Sketch John Davies 2 Professor David Thomas—A Representative Reminiscence Albert Suderaraj Walters Part 1 From the Rise of Islam to the Medieval World 3 Facing the Last Day through Two Narrative Apocalyptic Figures in the Coptic-Arabic ‘Apocalypse of Pseudo-Athanasius’ Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala 4 The Holy Spirit in Early Christian Dialogue with Muslims Mark Beaumont 5 Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī, Disciples and Masters: On Questions of Religious Philosophy Emilio Platti 6 The Theme of Language in Christian-Muslim Discussions in the ʿAbbāsid Period: Some Christian Views Herman Teule 7 A Neglected Piece of Evidence for Early Muslim Reactions to the Frankish Crusader Presence in the Levant: The ‘Jihad Chapter’ from Tuḥfat al-mulūk Alex Mallett 8 Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī and Ibn ʿArabī on the Ways to Knowledge of God: Unveiling or Reflection and Reasoning? Muammer İskenderoğlu 9 “Can You Find Anything Praiseworthy in My Religion?” Religious Aversion and Admiration in Medieval Christian-Muslim Relations Charles L. Tieszen 10 The First Imposition of a Badge on European Jews: The English Royal Mandate of 1218 John Tolan 11 An Arabic Version of the Treatise on the Origin and History of the Thirty Pieces of Silver which Judas Received from the Jews Rifaat Ebied 12 Debating According to the Rules: A Conversation about the Crucifixion in al-Ḥāwī by al-Makīn Jirjis ibn al-ʿAmīd Mark N. Swanson Part 2 From Early Modernity to the Present 13 Islamic Anti-Christian Polemics in 16th Century Spain: The Lead Books of Granada and the Gospel of Barnabas. Beyond the Limits of tahrīf Luis F. Bernabé Pons 14 Islam: An (Almost) Redundant Element in the Polish-Lithuanian/Ottoman Encounters between the 16th and 19th Centuries? Stanisław Grodź svd 15 (In)tolerant Ottomans: Polemic, Perspective and the Reading of Primary Sources Claire Norton 16 The Hadith in Christian-Muslim Dialogue in 19th Century India Alan M. Guenther 17 Muslim Responses to Missionary Literature in Egypt in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Umar Ryad 18 Three Pioneering Malay Works of Quranic Exegesis: A Comparative Study Peter Riddell 19 Christian-Muslim Engagement in Contemporary India: Minority Irruptions of Majoritarian Faultlines Peniel J. Rufus Rajkumar 20 Scholarly Reception of Alphonse Mingana’s ‘The Transmission of the Ḳurʾān’: A Centenary Perspective Gordon Nickel 21 The Role of Religious Leaders in Promoting Reconciliation in Sudan Sigvard von Sicard 22 Patterns of Christian-Muslim Encounters in Sub-Saharan Africa John Azumah 23 Italian Islam: Imam and Mosque Today Davide Tacchini Part 3 Looking Ahead: From Present to Future 24 The Current Situation of Christian-Muslim Relations: Emerging Challenges, Signs of Hope Jørgen S. Nielsen 25 The Future of the Christian-Muslim Past: Reflecting with Charles Taylor on Interreligious Relations Damian Howard SJ 26 Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue: Towards a More Interpersonal and Spiritual Engagement Risto Jukko 27 Orthodox Christians, Muslims, and the Environment: The Case for a New Sacred Science Andrew M. Sharp 28 Provocation and Resonance: Sacramental Spirituality in the Context of Islam Michael Ipgrave 29 Getting to Know One Another’s Hearts: The Progress, Method, and Potential of the Building Bridges Seminar Lucinda Allen Mosher 30 Anglican Interreligious Relations in Generous Love: Indebted to and Moving from Vatican II Richard J. Sudworth 31 The Interfaith Landscape and Liturgical Places David Cheetham 32 Textual Authority and Hermeneutical Adventure: Three 21st Century Dialogue Initiatives Douglas Pratt 33 Transfiguring Mission: From Arabic Dallas to Interfaith Discovery Clare Amos David R. Thomas Academic Publications Index 601

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Book SynopsisTwo remarkable Iranian world-maps were discovered in 1989 and 1995. Both are made of brass and date from 17th-century Iran. Mecca is at the centre and a highly sophisticated longitude and latitude grid enables the user to determine the direction and distance to Mecca for anywhere in the world between Andalusia and China. Prior to the discovery of these maps it was thought that such cartographic grids were conceived in Europe ca. 1910. This richly-illustrated book presents an overview of the ways in which Muslims over the centuries have determined the sacred direction towards Mecca (qibla) and then describes the two world-maps in detail. The author shows that the geographical data derives from a 15th-century Central Asian source and that the mathematics underlying the grid was developed in 9th-century Baghdad.Trade Review'Science historian David King wrote a monumental book about [a] cartographical miracle.' Dirk van Delft, NRC Handelsblad, 2000. '…impressive volume…This is an important reference book full of suggestions for further studies.' Roser Puig, ISIS, 2001. ‘…King has written a fascinating, beautifully illustrated book that should be read by any person interested in Islamic science or the history of mathematical geography.’ Benno van Dalen, Royal Asiatic Society, 2002.

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Book SynopsisThe Third Edition of Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Islam appears in four substantial segments each year, both online and in print. The new scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century and of Muslim minorities all over the world. This Part 2014-1 of the Third Edition of Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Islam will contain 56 new articles, reflecting the great diversity of current scholarship in the fields of Islamic Studies.Table of Contentsal-ʿAbbādī ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Samarqandī ʿAbdallāh b. Mūsā b. Nuṣayr Abdullah Paşa Kölemen Abū Bakr al-ʿAtīq Abū l-Ḥasan Zayd Fārūqī Mujaddidī Abubakar Gumi Aflaḥ b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb Agehi (Āgehī) Ağıt Aḥmed Paşa Ajem-Turkic Ajnādayn Aleppo (Ottoman Period) Ali Ekrem Bolayir Almohads Amman, Mīr ʿAndalīb, Khwāja Muḥammad Armenia (Topography) ʿAyyār Bā ʿAbbād Ba, Tijani Bā Wazīr Bākharzī, Yaḥyā Banja Luka Barcelona Beşir Çelebi Bitlis Bitola Cordoba Corruption al-Dabūsī, Abū Zayd Dāgh Dihlavī, Navāb Mīrzā Khān Dahiratoul Moustarchidina wal Moustarchidaty Dahlan, Kyai Haji Ahmad Damascus (Ottoman period) al-Dānī Death (in Islamic law) Dire Dawa Drama, Urdu Dūbayt (a) in Arabic Fatimids Fenarizade Gerard of Cremona Girona Gobind Singh, Gurū Goliath (Jālūt) Gospel of Barnabas Gratitude (shukr) and ingratitude Greece, Muslims in Güzelce Ali Paşa Ibn Tāfrājīn Idrīs, Yūsuf İsmail Beliğ Jabrā, Jabrā Ibrāhīm Novel, Arabic

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Book SynopsisThe Third Edition of Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Islam is an entirely new work, with new articles reflecting the great diversity of current scholarship. It appears in four substantial segments each year, both online and in print. The new scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century and of Muslim minorities all over the world.Table of ContentsAbdullah Kaşgari (ʿAbdallāh Kāshgarī) Aktham b. Ṣayfī Altınay, Ahmed Refik Aral (sea) Arslān Arghun Arslān-bāb al-Aṣamm, Sufyān b. Abrad al-Kalbī ʿAtābā al-Aws ʿAynī, Ṣadr al-Dīn Bajkam, Abū l-Ḥusayn Bakhshī Bayʿa Bektaşiyye Busḥāq Aṭʿima Caucasus, pre-1500 Communism Concubinage, in Islamic law Crescent (symbol of Islam) The Crusades Danākil Dātā Ganj Bakhsh, Shrine of al-Daybulī (al-Dabīlī), Abū Mūsā Dede Korkut Deli Orman Dioscorides Ḍirghām b. ʿĀmir, Abū l-Ashbāl al-Manṣūr Dobhāshī Dome of the Rock Elias of Nisibis Ethiopia, Islam and Muslims in Exorcism Fahri Fakhruddin, H. A. R. Fiction, Arabic, modern Figani Finance Freemasonry Gaza Gaza, art and architecture Gedik Gontor, Pondok Modern Gospel, Muslim conception of Granada Gümülcineli Ahmed Asım Efendi Kemankeş Ali Paşa Kılıç Ali Paşa Maḥmūd, ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm Ṭalḥa b. ʿUbaydallāh

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Book SynopsisEarly Ibāḍī Theology presents the critical edition of six Arabic theological texts recently discovered in two manuscripts in Mzāb in Algeria dating from the middle of the 8th century. The texts were sent by their author, the prominent Kūfan Ibāḍī kalām theologian ‘Abd Allāh b. Yazīd al-Fazārī to North Africa where he had a large following in the Ibāḍī community later known as the Nukkār. They constitute the earliest extant body of Muslim kalām theology and are vital for the study of the initial development of rational theology in Islam. The sophisticated treatment of the divine attributes in these texts indicates that this subject developed considerably earlier in Islamic theology than previously accepted in modern scholarship.Trade Review"As interest in the Ibāḍiyya continues to grow, the need for reliably edited Ibāḍī sources increases. Following on their earlier publication of the works of the early Omani Ibāḍī jurist, theologian and scholar Abū al-Mundhir Bashīr b. Muḥammad b. Maḥbūb (Early Ibāḍī Literature, Weisbaden, 2011) Drs. al-Salimi and Madelung’s new preparation of al-Fazārī’s kalām texts are a welcome addition to the growing library of early Ibāḍī sources. In addition, such a large collection of early kalām materials illumines in significant ways not only the development of Ibāḍī thought, but the progression of early Islamic theology in general. It is to be hoped that more scholars will follow in the footsteps of the editors, bringing the truly vast and important corpus of Ibāḍī texts to ever wider audiences." Adam R. Gaiser, Florida State University "Der Band – und namentlich die Typographie des arabischen Teils – sind sehr ansprechend gestaltet". Jan Thiele in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, vol. 106/2016Table of ContentsIntroduction Arabic Texts 1. Kitāb al-Qadar (Book of Predetermination) 2. Kitāb fī l-radd ‘alā Ibn ‘Umayr (Book on Refutation of Ibn ‘Umayr) 3. Kitāb al-radd ‘alā al-Mujassima (Book of Refutation of the Corporalists) 4. Kitāb al-Futyā (Book of Legal Opinion) 5. Kitāb al-Tawḥīd fī ma‘rifat Allāh (Book of Monotheism in the Recognition of God) 6. Kitāb fī man raja‘a ‘an ‘ilmih wa-fāraqa al-nabī wa-huwa ‘alā dīnih (Book about Whoever Reneges on his Knowledge and Departs from the Prophet while remaining in his Religion) Indices (al-Fahāris)

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Book SynopsisChanfi Ahmed shows how West African ʿulamāʾ, who fled the European colonization of their region to settle in Mecca and Medina, helped the regime of King Ibn Sa’ud at its beginnings in the field of teaching and spreading the Salafῑ-Wahhabῑ’s Islam both inside and outside Saudi Arabia. This is against the widespread idea of considering the spread of the Salafῑ-Wahhābῑ doctrine as being the work of ʿulamāʾ from Najd (Central Arabia) only. We learn here that the diffusion of this doctrine after 1926 was much more the work of ʿulamāʾ from other parts of the Muslim World who had already acquired this doctrine and spread it in their countries by teaching and publishing books related to it. In addition Chanfi Ahmed demonstrates that concerning Islamic reform and mission (daʿwa), Africans are not just consumers, but also thinkers and designers.Trade Review'Chanfi Ahmed’s West African Ulama and Salafism in Mecca and Medina. Jawāb al-Ifrῑqῑ - The Response of the African presents a critical approach into the study of what could be termed as the encroachment of Wahabbism in present West Africa in general and Nigeria, Mali, and Mauritania in particular. [...] Chanfi therefore, gives detailed information on the first set of migrants to Mecca and Medina, their interpretation of Hijra, and Jihad, and a description of the routes they followed in the cause of the migration and the factors that led to it.' - Yusuf Abdullahi Yusuf, University of Jos, in: African Studies Quarterly Volume 16, Issue 2 (March, 2016) 'It is more likely than not, that students of Islam in Africa, Arabists as well as Africanists will find Chanfi's work rich, engaging and, at the same time, stimulating. His scholarly horizons as well as his wit reading of Arabic texts bring excitement to observers of the African condition who are interested in finding today's questions in yesterday's answers. West African ʿulamāʾ and Salafism in Mecca and Medina evokes what is achievable in the task of retrieving Africa's reservoir of history when multidimensional linguistic skills are summoned to exhume the corpus of the African past.' - Mbaye Lo, Duke University, in: Research Africa Review Vol. 1 No. 1 pp.18-21, June 2017 [https://sites.duke.edu/researchafrica/ra-reviews/vol-1-no-1/]Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Hijra on the Sudan Road (Ṭarīq al-Sūdān) Hijra in Islam and West Africa: A Movement of People, Ideas, and Hope Hijra, Jihād, the Mahdī, and Ḥajj in Islam and in West African Islam The Hijra Related to the Mahdī The Reaction of the Colonizers to the Muhājirīn 2 The ʿUlamāʾ Forerunners of the Hijra and Teachers in the Mosque of the Prophet in Medina Shaykh Alfā Hāshim al-Fūtī (1866–1931): A Genius for Survival Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh b. Maḥmūd al-Madanī (Ag Maḥmūd Abdullahi): The “Intransigent” Salafī Missionary 3 The ʿUlamāʾ of the Second Generation, Heirs of the Hijra and Teachers in the First Islamic Institutes in Saudi Arabia Ḥammād al-Anṣārī (1344–1418/1925–97) “Riḥlat min Ifrīqyā ilā bilād al-ḥaramayn” [Traveling from Africa to the two holy cities] The Anṣār al-Sunna in Sudan The Legacy of Shaykh Ḥammād al-Anṣārī in West Africa ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Yūsuf al-Ifrīqī Jawāb al-Ifrīqī [Response of the African] Tawḍīḥ al-ḥajj wa-l-ʿumra kamā jāʾa fī l-kitāb wa-l-sunna [Explanation of ḥajj and ʿumra according to the Qurʾān and the Sunna] 4 The Dār al-Ḥadīth in Medina and the Ahl al-Ḥadīth The Dār al-Ḥadīth in Mecca The Establishment and Expansion of the Ahl al-Ḥadīth Movement in the Eighteenth Century Muḥammad Ḥayāt al-Sindī (d. 1163/1750) Walī Allāh Dihlawī (1703–63) Ṣāliḥ al-Fullānī (1752–3/1803) Muḥammad b. ʿAlī l-Shawkānī (1173–1250/1760–1832) Nadhīr Ḥusayn Dihlawī (1805–1902) Ṣādiq Ḥasan Khān (1834–90) Ṣanāʿullāh Amristari (1868–1948) The Doctrine of Ahl al-Ḥadīth as Reflected by these ʿUlamāʾ A Brief Political History of the Hijaz in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Educational Institutions Founded in the Hijaz by the Ottomans and the Ashrāf Nation-State or Umma-State: ʿUlamāʾ Support of the Saudi State Maʿhad al-Riyāḍ al-ʿIlmi (Riyadh Institute of Islamic Religious Sciences) 5 The ʿUlamāʾ of the Third Generation: Teachers and Administrators in the First Islamic Universities of Saudi Arabia Shaykh ʿUmar b. Muḥammad Fallāta (1345–1419/1926–98) Writings, Lectures, and Teaching of ʿUmar Fallāta Muḥammad al-Amīn al-Jakanī l-Shinqīṭī (Āb Wuld Ukhtūr) (1325–93/1907–73) The Writings of Shaykh Shinqīṭī 6 Africa in the Islamic University of Medina History of the Foundation of the University Africa in the Daʿwa Policy of the Islamic University of Medina and of the Saudi State as Reflected in the Statutes and Other Texts of the University Daʿwa in Africa By and With the Africans Shaykh Taqī l-Dīn al-Hilālī (d. 1407/1987) 7 Biography (Tarjama) in the Islamic Tradition according to the ʿUlamāʾ The Concept and Tradition of Tarjama (Biography) according to ʿUmar Fallāta and ʿAṭiyya Sālim ʿAṭiyya Muḥammad Sālim with al-Ifrīqī and al-Shinqīṭī The Teaching Method of al-Ifrīqī (Manhaj al-Ifrīqī) ʿAṭiyya Muḥammad Sālim with Shaykh al-Amīn al-Shinqīṭī (Āb Wuld Ukhtūr) The Tarjama according to Shaykh ʿUmar Fallāta in his Conference Paper on Shaykh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ifrīqī An Interpretation Conclusion Bibliography Works and Primary Sources in Arabic Works in Other Languages Index

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Book SynopsisThe present volume – grown out of an international symposium at the Free University, Berlin in 2002 – is concerned with religious authorities, men and women claiming, projecting and exerting religious authority within a given context. The volume focuses on Middle Eastern Muslim majority societies in the period from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, and the papers collected therein highlight the scope and variety of religious authorities in present and past Muslim societies.Trade Review"… this is a useful volume that would give readers a fair idea about its subject matter." – Amr Osman, in: SCTIW Review (Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World), March 26, 2015Table of ContentsIntroduction: Religious Authority and Religious Authorities in Muslim Societies. A Critical Overview Gudrun Krämer and Sabine Schmidtke “This day have I perfected your religion for you”: A Ẓāhirī Conception of Religious Authority Camilla Adang The Epistemology of Excellence: Sunni-Shiʿi Dialectics on Legitimate Leadership Asma Afsaruddin The Relationship between Chief Qāḍī and Chief Dāʿī under the Fatimids Paul E. Walker Forms and Functions of ‘Licences To Transmit’ (Ijāzas) in 18th-Century-Iran: ʿAbd Allāh al-Mūsawī al-Jazāʾirī al-Tustarī’s (1112–73/1701–59) Ijāza Kabīra Sabine Schmidtke Asserting Religious Authority in late 19th/early 20th Century Morocco: Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar al-Kattānī (d. 1927) and his Kitāb Salwat al-Anās Bettina Dennerlein Consensus and Religious Authority in Modern Islam: The Discourses of the ʿUlamāʾ Muhammad Qasim Zaman Drawing Boundaries: Yūsuf al-Qarḍāwī on Apostasy Gudrun Krämer A Doctrine in the Making? Velāyat-e faqīh in Post-Revolutionary Iran Katajun Amirpur Religious Authority in Transnational Sufi Networks: Shaykh Nāẓim al-Qubrusī al-Ḥaqqānī al-Naqshbanī Annabelle Böttcher The Modern Dede: Changing Parameters for Religious Authority in Contemporary Turkish Alevism Markus Dressler Index

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Book SynopsisThe contributions in this volume aim to reflect the variety of current Muslim social practices and life-worlds in Germany. The volume presents fresh theoretical approaches and in-depth analyses of a rich mosaic of communities, cultures and social practices. Issues of politics, religion, society, economics, media, art, literature, law and gender are addressed.Trade ReviewChoice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title Award Winner, December 2008. Readable and authoritative chapters on prayer leaders, the legal status of Islamic contracts, the growing importance since the 1980s of identity politics, gender issues, South Asian Muslims, pop music, language and educational issues, Muslims as consumers, and how Muslims are portrayed in the German media make this book a must for anyone interested in the changing face of Islam in Germany today. D.F. Eickelman,CHOICE, 2008 Together the chapters provide a broad and interesting overview over many important aspects of the dynamic process in which Muslims and Islam are becoming a part of German society. Af Heiko Henkel, Tidsskrift for Islamforskning, 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Tables, Figures, Maps and Illustrations List of Contributors Islam and Muslims in Germany: An Introductory Exploration, Jörn Thielmann PART I - FRAMING OF MUSLIM LIFE WORLDS (LEBENSWELTEN) Euro-Islam: Some Empirical Evidences, Faruk Şen Islamic Norms in Germany and Europe, Mathias Rohe Religiousness among Young Muslims in Germany, Kea Eilers, Clara Seitz, Konrad Hirschler PART II - ISLAM AND SOCIAL PRACTICE Governmentality, Pastoral Care and Integration, Levent Tezcan Prayer Leader, Counselor, Teacher, Social Worker, and Public Relations Officer—On the Roles and Functions of Imams in Germany, Melanie Kamp Christian-Muslim Encounter—Recent Issues and Perspectives, Friedmann Eissler The Bellicose Birth of Euro-Islam in Berlin, Wolfgang G. Schwanitz PART III - COMMUNITIES AND IDENTITIES Muslims’ Collective Self-description as Refl ected in the Institutional Recognition of Islam: The Islamic Charta of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany and Case Law in German Courts, Nikola Tietze Islamic Instruction in German Public Schools: The Case of North-Rhine-Westphalia, Margrete Søvik Difficult Identifications: The Debate on Alevism and Islam in Germany, Martin Sökefeld Philosophers, Freedom Fighters, Pantomimes: South Asian Muslims in Germany, Claudia Preckel PART IV - CULTURE Turkish-German Filmmaking: From Phobic Liminality to Transgressive Glocality? Viola Shafik A Literary Dialogue of Cultures: Arab Authors in Germany, Yafa Shanneik The Entertainment of a Parallel Society? Turkish Popular Music in Germany, Maria Wurm PART V - MEDIA “I can watch both sides”—Media Use among Young Arabs in Germany, Judith Pies Islam in German Media, Sabine Schiffer The Turkish Press in Germany: A Public In-between Two Publics? Christoph Schumann PART VI - GENDER Re-fashioning the Self through Religious Knowledge: How Muslim Women Become Pious in the German Diaspora, Jeanette S. Jouili Gender in Transition: The Connectedness of Gender and Ethnicity in Biographies of Female Entrepreneurs of Turkish Background, Verena Schreiber PART VII - ISLAMIC ECONOMIES OR BUSINESS AS USUAL? Transculturality as Practice: Turkish Entrepreneurs in Germany, Robert Pütz The Construction of ‘Turks in Germany’ as a Target Group of Marketing, Matthias Kulinna Islamic Financing Transactions in European Courts, Kilian Bälz General Index

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Book SynopsisSpace and Conversion in Global Perspective examines experiences of conversion as they intersect with physical location, mobility, and interiority. The volume’s innovative approach is global and encompasses multiple religious traditions. Conversion emerges as a powerful force in early modern globalization. In thirteen essays, the book ranges from the urban settings of Granada and Cuzco to mission stations in Latin America and South India; from villages in Ottoman Palestine and Middle-Volga Russia to Italian hospitals and city squares; and from Atlantic slave ships to the inner life of a Muslim turned Jesuit. Drawing on extensive archival and iconographic materials, this collection invites scholars to rethink conversion in light of the spatial turn. Contributors are: Paolo Aranha, Emanuele Colombo, Irene Fosi, Mercedes García-Arenal, Agnieszka Jagodzińska, Aliocha Maldavsky, Giuseppe Marcocci, Susana Bastos Mateus, Adriano Prosperi, Gabriela Ramos, Rocco Sacconaghi, Felicita Tramontana, Guillermo Wilde, and Oxana Zemtsova.Trade Review"The editors are to be congratulated for bringing together a truly global range of perspectives and insights to stimulate what is still a new and vital field." – Simon Ditchfield, University of York, in: Journal of Jesuit Studies 2/3 (2015), pp. 493-499 [DOI: 10.1163/22141332-00203005-07]Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction: Space, Conversion, and Global History GIUSEPPE MARCOCCI, WIETSE DE BOER, ALIOCHA MALDAVSKY, ILARIA PAVAN PART ONE: CITY AND COUNTRY Granada as a New Jerusalem: The Conversion of a City MERCEDES GARCÍA-ARENAL Conversion on the Scaffold: Italian Practices in European Context ADRIANO PROSPERI The Incas of Cuzco and the Transformation of Sacred Space under Spanish Colonial Rule GABRIELA RAMOS The Spread of Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century Palestinian Villages FELICITA TRAMONTANA Christian Missionaries and Jewish Spaces: British Missions in the Kingdom of Poland in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century AGNIESZKA JAGODZIŃSKA PART TWO: SEGREGATION AND PERMEABILITY The Citadel of the Lost Souls: Spaces of Orthodoxy and Penance in Sixteenth-Century Lisbon SUSANA BASTOS MATEUS The Hospital as a Space of Conversion: Roman Examples from the Seventeenth Century IRENE FOSI The Political Dimension of Space-Time Categories in the Jesuit Missions of Paraguay (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries) GUILLERMO WILDE The Social and Physical Spaces of the Malabar Rites Controversy PAOLO ARANHA PART THREE: DISTANCE AND MOBILITY Saltwater Conversion: Trans-Oceanic Sailing and Religious Transformation in the Iberian World GIUSEPPE MARCOCCI Giving for the Mission: The encomenderos and Christian Space in the Late Sixteenth-Century Andes ALIOCHA MALDAVSKY Telling the Untellable: The Geography of Conversion of a Muslim Jesuit EMANUELE COLOMBO AND ROCCO SACCONAGHI Confessional Rivals: Conversions and Apostasies in the Middle-Volga Region of the Russian Empire (Nineteenth Century) OXANA ZEMTSOVA   Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays on Islamic art and architecture in the nineteenth century covers a wide geographical area and draws together different regional elements. The essays devote much attention to social, political, economic and intellectual issues, including the role of tradition and responses to European aesthetics, among them the appropriation of orientalism and the rise of revivalist movements.Trade Review"This volume ...is a valuable contribution to a broader approach of the field." Sophie Makariou, The Louvre Museum in Central Eurasian Reader, 2 (2010). "... einen Grundbaustein für ein Gebiet, von dem zu hoffen ist, dass es in Zukunft weitere beobachtungen finden wird." Silvia Naef, Universität Genf

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Book SynopsisThe volume demonstrates the cultural centrality of the oral tradition for Iranian studies. It contains contributions from scholars from various areas of Iranian and comparative studies, among which are the pre-Islamic Zoroastrian tradition with its wide network of influences in late antique Mesopotamia, notably among the Jewish milieu; classical Persian literature in its manifold genres; medieval Persian history; oral history; folklore and more. The essays in this collection embrace both the pre-Islamic and Islamic periods, both verbal and visual media, as well as various language communities (Middle Persian, Persian, Tajik, Dari) and geographical spaces (Greater Iran in pre-Islamic and Islamic medieval periods; Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan of modern times). Taken as a whole, the essays reveal the unique blending of oral and literate poetics in the texts or visual artefacts each author focuses upon, conceptualizing their interrelationship and function.

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Book SynopsisDescription de l’Afrique et de l’Espagne offers a partial edition of the Arabic descriptive geography by Abu ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad al-Idrīsī (d. c. 560 AH/1165 CE) entitled Kitāb Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī’ khtirāq al-āfāq. Originally published by Brill in 1866, this edition of the Arabic text concerning Africa and the Iberian Peninsula by R. Dozy and M.J. de Goeje was based on the Paris and Oxford manuscripts. It includes a translation into French, with notes, a glossary (Arabic-French), and Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period examines the important role of Ibn ʿAsākir, including his Forty Hadiths for Inciting Jihad, in the promotion of a renewed jihad ideology in twelfth-century Damascus as part of sultan Nūr al-Dīn’s agenda to revivify Sunnism and fight, under the banner of jihad, Crusader and Muslim opponents. This jihad vision was exclusively centered on selected quranic verses and prophetic hadiths. Ibn ʿAsākir and other Sunni scholars in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Syria departed from the earlier scholarly focus on legal nuances and aversion to invoke jihad in intra-Muslim conflicts. They championed this intensification and reorientation of jihad ideology in mainstream Sunni scholarship, and gave it a lasting legacy.Trade Review“The edition and translation of the Arabic text of Ibn ʿAsākir’s al-Arbaʿūna ḥadīthan fī l-ḥathth ʿalā l-jihād in the second part of the book is of a high quality and it is a welcome addition to the sources available on jihād.” Harald Motzki in Ilahiyat Studies 4.1 (2013). "...this is an important and groundbreaking piece of scholarship [...]." Niall Christie in Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques 28 (2012). “This book describes how twelfth-century scholars were actively involved in legitimizing certain political actions through concepts that were crystallized in the Muslim tradition and shaped intra-Muslim relations well as the empire’s relationships with its neighbors… In introducing the historical setting, Mourad and Lindsay describe in impressively minute detail the politics involved in producing texts during the reign of Sultan Nūr al-Dīn at a time when the latter was rallying Muslim populations, and elites in particular, against the Crusaders.” Bashir Saade in Al-Abhath 60-61 (2012-2013), p. 202-204. “… a most welcome addition to the study of the idea of religiously motivated warfare in the twelfth century. This text is of particular importance because Ibn ʿAsākir was the most important scholar of his time in the Egyptian/Syrian lands—at least he was the most prolific.[…] Overall this book not only makes a new text available to a larger audience, but it offers a brilliant reinterpretation of a text that might seem at first glance boringly repetitive.” Konrad Hirschler in Journal of the American Oriental Society 135.1 (2015) "Like any primary source, Ibn ʿAsākir’s text and its very readable translation offer modern readers an indication of how contemporaries perceived the issues of the day, so the book is part of a welcome trend in crusading studies to present Islamic perspectives on the topic. It will also appeal to anyone interested in jihad more generally." Christopher J. van der Krogt in Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 29 July (2015). "Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt ein wichtiges Werk aus der Geschichte dieses Konzeptes in einer verlässlichen Edition zur Verfügung". Rüdiger Lohlker, University of ViennaTable of ContentsList of Maps and Images Preface Acknowledgment Notes on Transliteration Part One: The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period: Ibn ʿAsākir of Damascus (1105-1176) and his Age Chapter One: Ibn ʿAsākir (1105-1176): Life and Career Chapter Two: Jihad in Early Islamic History: An Overview Chapter Three: Jihad Preaching in Damascus between the First and Second Crusades Chapter Four: Ibn ʿAsākir and the Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Twelfth Century Chapter Five: The Forty Hadiths for Inciting Jihad Chapter Six: Ibn ʿAsākir’s Forty Hadiths and the Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in Thirteenth Century Damascus Chapter Seven: The Legacy of the Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology since the Thirteenth Century Part Two: English Translation A. Notes on the Translation B. The Forty Hadiths for Inciting Jihad C. Colophons and Ownership Notes on al-Birzālī’s Copy of Ibn ʿAsākir’s Forty Hadiths Part Three: Edition of the Arabic Text A. Notes on the Arabic Edition B. al-Arbaʿūn ḥadīthan fī al-ḥathth ʿalā al-jihād C. Arabic Colophons and Ownership Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSayyid Amjad Hussain Shah Naqavi’s introduction and annotated scholarly translation of Ayatollah Khomeini’s The Mystery of Prayer brings to light a rarely studied dimension of an author better known for his revolutionary politics. Writing forty years before the Islamic revolution, Khomeini shows a formidable level of insight into the spiritual aspects of Islamic prayer. Through discussions on topics such as spiritual purity, the presence of the heart before God, and the stations of the spiritual wayfarer, Khomeini elucidates upon the nature of reality as the countenance of the divine. Drawing upon scriptural sources and the Shīʿah intellectual and mystical tradition, the subtlety of the work has led to it being appreciated as one of Khomeini’s most original works in the field of gnosis.Table of ContentsForeword Preface Translator’s Introduction Author’s Dedication Prologue Introduction 1 The Degrees and Progressions of Man and the Degrees and Levels of Prayer 2 On the Prayer of the Wayfarer and the Perfect Nearmost One 3 On the Mystery of the Prayer of the Folk of Gnosis 4 On the Presence of the Heart and its Levels 5 On the Means of Realising the Presence of the Heart 6 On Matters which Aid in Realising the Presence of the Heart Part 1 On the Preludes to Prayer 1 On the Mystery of Purity 2 On the Mysteries of Purification with Water and Earth 3 On the Tradition of Imām al-Ṣādiq Regarding Ablution 4 On the Mysteries of a Noble Ḥadīth 5 On the Mystery of the Covering Up of Shame 6 On the Removal of Impurity 7 On the Location of Prayer 8 On the Permissibility of a Location of Worship 9 On the Mysteries of Time 10 On the Mystery of Turning Towards the Kaʿbah Part 2 On the Linkings of Prayer and their Correspondences 1 On the Mysteries of the Calls to Prayer 2 On the Mysteries of Standing During Prayer 3 On the Mysteries of Intention 4 On the Mystery of the Opening Magnifications 5 On Some of the Mysteries of Qurʾānic Recitation During Prayer 6 On the Mystery of Seeking Refuge in God 7 On the Mysteries of Sūrat al-Ḥamd 8 On an Allusion to the Exegesis of the Noble Sūrat al-Tawḥīd 9 On Some of the Mysteries of Bowing During Prayer 10 On the Mystery of Raising the Head after Bowing 11 On the Mystery of Prostration 12 On the Mystery of the Testimony of Prayer and the Invocation of Peace in Prayer Epilogue Translator’s Bibliography Persian Editors’ Bibliography Index Index of Qurʾānic Verses

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Book SynopsisSayyid Amjad Hussain Shah Naqavi’s introduction and annotated scholarly translation of Ayatollah Khomeini’s The Mystery of Prayer brings to light a rarely studied dimension of an author better known for his revolutionary politics. Writing forty years before the Islamic revolution, Khomeini shows a formidable level of insight into the spiritual aspects of Islamic prayer. Through discussions on topics such as spiritual purity, the presence of the heart before God, and the stations of the spiritual wayfarer, Khomeini elucidates upon the nature of reality as the countenance of the divine. Drawing upon scriptural sources and the Shīʿah intellectual and mystical tradition, the subtlety of the work has led to it being appreciated as one of Khomeini’s most original works in the field of gnosis.Table of ContentsForeword Preface Translator’s Introduction Author’s Dedication Prologue Introduction 1 The Degrees and Progressions of Man and the Degrees and Levels of Prayer 2 On the Prayer of the Wayfarer and the Perfect Nearmost One 3 On the Mystery of the Prayer of the Folk of Gnosis 4 On the Presence of the Heart and its Levels 5 On the Means of Realising the Presence of the Heart 6 On Matters which Aid in Realising the Presence of the Heart Part 1 On the Preludes to Prayer 1 On the Mystery of Purity 2 On the Mysteries of Purification with Water and Earth 3 On the Tradition of Imām al-Ṣādiq Regarding Ablution 4 On the Mysteries of a Noble Ḥadīth 5 On the Mystery of the Covering Up of Shame 6 On the Removal of Impurity 7 On the Location of Prayer 8 On the Permissibility of a Location of Worship 9 On the Mysteries of Time 10 On the Mystery of Turning Towards the Kaʿbah Part 2 On the Linkings of Prayer and their Correspondences 1 On the Mysteries of the Calls to Prayer 2 On the Mysteries of Standing During Prayer 3 On the Mysteries of Intention 4 On the Mystery of the Opening Magnifications 5 On Some of the Mysteries of Qurʾānic Recitation During Prayer 6 On the Mystery of Seeking Refuge in God 7 On the Mysteries of Sūrat al-Ḥamd 8 On an Allusion to the Exegesis of the Noble Sūrat al-Tawḥīd 9 On Some of the Mysteries of Bowing During Prayer 10 On the Mystery of Raising the Head after Bowing 11 On the Mystery of Prostration 12 On the Mystery of the Testimony of Prayer and the Invocation of Peace in Prayer Epilogue Translator’s Bibliography Persian Editors’ Bibliography Index Index of Qurʾānic Verses

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Book SynopsisThis critical Arabic text edition of K. Makārim al-akhlāq wa-maḥāsin al-ādāb wa-badāʾiʿ al-awṣāf wa-gharāʾib al-tashbīhāt(Book of Noble Character, Excellent Conduct, Admirable Descriptions, and Curious Similes) is a substantial work of adab attributed to the prominent littérateur Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī (d. 429/1039) that consists of a short introduction and three chapters. The first chapter addresses acquiring noble character and excellent conduct (al-taḥallī bi-makārim al-akhlāq wa-maḥāsin al-ādāb); the second addresses shunning away from base character and ugly traits (al-tazakkī ʿan masāwiʾ al-akhlāq wa-maqābiḥ al-shiyam); and the third addresses admirable descriptions and curious similes (badāʾiʿ al-awṣāf wa-gharāʾib al-tashbīhāt). At the end of the text one finds a relatively large collection of widely circulating proverbs (amthāl sāʾira) that are alphabetically arranged. Makārim al-akhlāq is in essence an anthology of “good conduct” and of quotations suitable for social and literary discourse. It reflects the three ingredients of adab: behavior, literary culture, and learning. The work is introduced by an analytical study discussing the attribution of the work, the related genres, and the unique manuscript of the text.Trade Reviewيعلق الباحثان الأرفه لي وبعلبكي في مقدمة الكتاب على المخطوط، وهما من أكابر العلماء والمحققين اليوم، على وضوح خط الناسخ ودقته في النسخ. ويدفعني هنا الإعدجاب الأكاديمي والجمالي وفي إخراج الكتاب للتعليق على الأهمية الأكاديمية التي يحملها الكتاب لدراسي فن المختارات الأدبية والأدب العربي عامة، وعلى جمالية اختيار لوحة فنية للأستاذ الدكتور سامي مكارم "آفة الغلم الغرور" غلافا للكتاب، خاصة وأن الكتاب مهدى إلى سامي مكارم زميل المحققين في الجامعة الأمريكية في بيروت. علاء كيالي، المشرق 91/2، تموز-كانون الأول 2017 Alaa Kayali, al-Mashriq 91/2, July-December 2017 "...يعكف المحققان على التعريف بهذا النوع الأدبي وسرد جميع الكتب المعروفة الواقعة في دائرة هذا النوع، مما يجعل من مقدمة الكتاب مرجعا أكاديميا لا غنى عنه في مجال دراسة هذا النوع الأدبي [...] فالمقدمة بتركيزها على موقع الكتاب في التراث العربي تشكل رحلة بين أنواع أدبية مختلفة تصلح لأن تدرس في مساقات الأدب العربي والحضارة العربية-الإسلامية. [...] أبدع المحققان في تحقيقهما للكتاب، فضبط النص خال من الأخطاء، وقد عادا إلى كم هائل من المصادر الأولية، فحققا نسبة معظم الأقوال والأحاديث والأشعار والأمثال، وتتبعها في المصادر التي رتبت بشكل تاريخي في الهوامش." مريم المشتاوي، الشرق الأوسط، 12 صفر 1437\24 نوفمبر 2015، العدد 13510 Maryam Mishtawi, Al-Sharq al-Awsat, 24 November 2015, issue 13510 "... die vorzügliche, an weiterführenden Materialien und Informationen so reiche Edition ist eine Fundgrube für alle, die über die Adabliteratur arbeiten." Reinhard Weipert, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität "This is a book valuable for Arab speaking students of theology and researchers of Islamic studies." Stavros Nikolaidis "This impeccable edition, which presents the text in a nice typographic form, is supplemented with a rich apparatus of notes that emphasize the intertextual relations of this anthology with other titles of the Arabic literature. [...] Indexes of the Koranic verses, Prophetic traditions, verses of poetry, proper names, places and an exhaustive bibliography complement this accurate edition that adds a precious pearl to the necklace of Arabic adab literature." Antonella Ghersetti, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, in Quaderni di Studi Arabi 13 (2018)

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Book SynopsisIslam is often seen as a religious tradition in which hell does not play a particularly prominent role. This volume challenges this hackneyed view. Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions is the first book-length analytic study of the Muslim hell. It maps out a broad spectrum of Islamic attitudes toward hell, from the Quranic vision(s) of hell to the pious cultivation of the fear of the afterlife, theological speculations, metaphorical and psychological understandings, and the modern transformations of hell. Contributors: Frederick Colby, Daniel de Smet, Christiane Gruber, Jon Hoover, Mohammad Hassan Khalil, Christian Lange, Christopher Melchert, Simon O’Meara, Samuela Pagani, Tommaso Tesei, Roberto Tottoli, Wim Raven, and Richard van Leeuwen.Trade Review"Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions wird für die weitere Erforschung der Vorstellungen von der islamischen Hölle ein unabdingbarer Bezugspunkt bleiben. Rüdiger Lohlke, University of Vienna.Table of ContentsTable of contents List of figures Acknowledgments List of abbreviations Introduction 1. Introducing hell in Islamic Studies Christian Lange Part I: Quranic netherworlds 2. The barzakh and the intermediate state of the dead in the Quran Tommaso Tesei 3. From space to place: The Quranic infernalization of the jinn Simon O’Meara 4. Revisiting hell’s angels in the Quran Christian Lange Part II: Hell in early and medieval Islam 5. Locating hell in early renunciant literature Christopher Melchert 6. Fire in the upper heavens: Locating hell in Middle Period narratives of Muḥammad’s Ascension Frederick Colby 7. Hell in popular Muslim imagination: The anonymous Kitāb al-ʿAẓama Wim Raven Part III: Theological and mystical aspects 8. Is hell truly everlasting? An introduction to medieval Islamic universalism Mohammad Hassan Khalil 9. Ibn ʿArabī, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, and the political functions of punishment in Islamic hell Samuela Pagani 10. Withholding judgment on Islamic universalism: Ibn al-Wazīr (d. 840/1436) on the duration and purpose of hell-fire Jon Hoover Part IV: Varieties of hell in Islamic traditions 11. Ismaʿili-Shiʿi visions of hell: From the “spiritual” torment of the Fatimids to the Ṭayyibī rock of Sijjīn Daniel de Smet 12. The Morisco hell: The significance and relevance of the Aljamiado texts for Muslim eschatology and Islamic literature Roberto Tottoli 13. Curse signs: The artful rhetoric of hell in Safavid Iran Christiane Gruber 14. Literature and religious controversy: The vision of hell in Jamīl Ṣidqī al-Zahāwī’s Thawra fī l-jaḥīm Richard van Leeuwen General index List of contributors

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Book SynopsisNaṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī’s (d. 672/1274) Nasirean Ethics is the single most important work on philosophical ethics in the history of Islam. Translated from the original Persian into Arabic in 713/1313, the present text was primarily intended for the Arabic-speaking majority of the people in Iraq. A fine example of medieval Persian-to-Arabic translation technique, this first edition carefully reproduces Middle Arabic elements that can be found throughout the text.Trade Review“This meticulous multi-layered scholarship will be of great service to readers of Jurjänl’s translation and can only be commended… Readers interested in the development of philosophical ethics in the Islamic world will be grateful to have this meticulous scholarly edition at their disposal.” - Sophia Vasalou, in: Journal of the American Oriental Society, 138/1 (2018) "... Lameer deserves our praise for producing a reliable edition of an important text, with an informative and well-organized introduction and instructive annotations." - Neguin Yavari, in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 112 (2017) "... Lameer shows up as a careful reader of the manuscript [...] [A] most meritorious pioneering edition..." - Jules Janssens, in Bibliotheca Orientalis LXXIV, January-April (2017)

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Book SynopsisThe present volume—the first of its kind—deals with takfīr: accusing one´s opponents of unbelief (kufr). Originating in the first decades of Islam, this practice has been applied intermittently ever since. The nineteen studies included here deal with cases, covering different periods and parts of the Muslim world, of individuals or groups that used the instrument of takfīr to brand their opponents—either persons, groups or even institutions—as unbelievers who should be condemned, anathematized or even persecuted. Each case presented is placed in its sociopolitical and religious context. Together the contributions show the multifariousness that has always characterized Islam and the various ways in which Muslims either sought to suppress or to come to terms with this diversity. With contributions by: Roswitha Badry, Sonja Brentjes, Brian J. Didier, Michael Ebstein, Simeon Evstatiev, Ersilia Francesca, Robert Gleave, Steven Judd, István T. Kristó-Nagy, Göran Larsson, Amalia Levanoni, Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, Hossein Modarressi, Justyna Nedza, Intisar A. Rabb, Sajjad Rizvi, Daniel de Smet, Zoltan Szombathy, Joas Wagemakers.Table of ContentsContents List of contributors Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction I. Takfīr Through Islamic History 1. The Early Period (First/Seventh-Fourth/Tenth Centuries) Self-defining through Faith: The walāya and barāʾa Dynamics among the Early Ibāḍis Ersilia Francesca Were the Umayyad-Era Qadarites Kāfirs? Steven Judd Denouncing the Damned Zindīq! Struggle and Interaction between Monotheism and Dualism István T. Kristó-Nagy Kufr et takfīr dans l’ismaélisme fatimide: Le Kitāb Tanbīh al-hādī de Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī Daniel De Smet 2. The Classical and Post-Classical Period (Fifth/Eleventh-Eleventh/Eighteenth Centuries) The Vocabulary of "Unbelief" in Three Biographical Dictionaries and Two Historical Chronicles of the 7th/13th and 8th/14th Centuries Sonja Brentjes Takfīr in Egypt and Syria during the Mamluk Period Amalia Levanoni Takfīr and Messianism: The Ḥurūfī Case Orkhan Mir-Kasimov The Qāḍīzādeli Movement and the Revival of takfīr in the Ottoman Age Simeon Evstatiev The takfīr of the Philosophers (and Sufis) in Safavid Iran Sajjad Rizvi 3. The Modern Period The Cost of Condemnation: Heresy and takfīr in a South Indian Community Brian J. Didier The Sum of its Parts: The State as Apostate in Contemporary Saudi Militant Islamism Justyna Nedza “The Kāfir Religion of the West”: Takfīr of Democracy and Democrats by Radical Islamists Joas Wagemakers On the takfīr of Arab Women Rights Advocates in Recent Times Roswitha Badry Apostasy in the West: A Swedish Case Study Göran Larsson II. Discussing Takfīr:Different Perspectives Essential Islam: The Minimum that a Muslim is Required to Acknowledge Hossein Modarressi Abandoning Prayer and the Declaration of Unbelief in Imāmī Jurisprudence Robert Gleave Society and Propriety: The Cultural Construction of Defamation and Blasphemy as Crimes in Islamic Law Intisar A. Rabb Literary Works as Evidence of Unbelief Zoltan Szombathy “Religions, Opinions and Beliefs Are Nothing but Roads and Paths … While the Goal Is One”: Between Unity and Diversity in Islamic Mysticism Michael Ebstein

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Book SynopsisThe Third Edition of Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Islam is an entirely new work, with new articles reflecting the great diversity of current scholarship. It appears in four substantial segments each year, both online and in print. The new scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century and of Muslim minorities all over the world.Table of ContentsʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ḥabīb al-Fihrī Alexandria, the School of Arşi Tireli Athīr al-Dīn Ākhsīkatī Badr al-Dīn Tabrīzī Bashīr Shihāb II Boratav, Pertev Naili Cafer Çelebi, Tacizade Cartography Caucasus, post-900/1500 Celal Sahir (Erozan) Cemal Paşa Chaldean Christians Chyhyryn campaign Circassians, modern Cossack Brigade Ebubekir Ratib Efendi Eger Equator Eşrefoğlu Rumi al-Fākhūrī, Arsānyūs Fayḍiyya Fibonacci, Leonardo Firdevsi-yi Rumi Gazel (Qəzəl) in Azerbaijani literature Ghiyāth al-Dīn Tughluq Shāh II Gritti, Alvise Gürses, Müslüm Ḥabīb b. Maslama al-Fihrī Ḥaḍra in Ṣūfism al-Ḥājj, Unsī al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf b. Maṭar Ḥājjī l-Dabīr al-Ḥakam b. ʿAbdal al-Ḥakam b. Qanbar Hamengkubuwana I, Sultan Hamon Moses al-Ḥanafī, Aḥmad b. Abī Bakr Hang Tuah, Hikayat Ḥanẓala b. Ṣafwān (the prophet) Hasaitic al-Ḥasan b. Ṣāliḥ Ḥasan-i Ṣabbāḥ Ḥasrat Mohānī Hatta, Mohammad Ḥawḍ Ḥayāt al-Dīn b. Saʿīd Hekimbaşı Henna Hind bt. al-Khuss Ḥizb al-Daʿwa al-Islāmiyya, Iraq Ḥourī Household Ḥujr b. ʿAdī l-Kindī Ibn al-Abbār, al-Quḍāʿī Ibn Abī Zamanīn Ibn ʿAjība Ibn al-Dawādārī Ibn Gabirol Ibn Ḥāmid Ibn Ḥayyūs Ibn Ḥijjī Ibn ʿIdhārī al-Marrākushī Ibn Kammūna Ibn Khaldūn, Yaḥyā Ibn al-Maḥrūma Ibn Marzūq Ibn Wāṣil al-Jazzār, Abū l-Ḥusayn Yaḥyā Yusuf Amiri

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Book SynopsisThe Arabo-Islamic heritage of the Islam is among the richest, most diverse, and longest-lasting literary traditions in the world. Born from a culture and religion that valued teaching, Arabo-Islamic learning spread from the seventh century and has had a lasting impact until the present.In The Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning leading scholars around the world present twenty-five studies explore diverse areas of Arabo-Islamic heritage in honor of a renowned scholar and teacher, Dr. Wadad A. Kadi (Prof. Emerita, University of Chicago). The volume includes contributions in three main areas: History, Institutions, and the Use of Documentary Sources; Religion, Law, and Islamic Thought; Language, Literature, and Heritage which reflect Prof. Kadi’s contributions to the field. Contributors:Sean W. Anthony; Ramzi Baalbaki; Jonathan A.C. Brown; Fred M. Donner; Mohammad Fadel; Kenneth Garden; Sebastian Günther; Li Guo; Heinz Halm; Paul L. Heck; Nadia Jami; Jeremy Johns; Maher Jarrar; Marion Holmes Katz; Scott C. Lucas; Angelika Neuwirth; Bilal Orfali; Wen-chin Ouyang; Judith Pfeiffer; Maurice A. Pomerantz; Riḍwān al-Sayyid ; Aram A. Shahin; Jens Scheiner; John O. Voll; Stefan Wild.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements……………………………………………………………………………………………. The Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning………………………………………………………………….. Prof. Wadad Kadi: A Life of Learning and Teaching……………………………………………. Bibliography Wadad Kadi (Wadād al-Qāḍī)……………………………….………………………… Works Dedicated to Wadad Kadi………………………………………………………………………….. HISTORY, INSTITUTIONS, AND THE USE OF DOCUMENTARY SOURCES The Meccan Prison of ʿAbdallāh b. al-Zubayr and the Imprisonment of Muḥammad b. al-Ḥanafiyya………………………………………………………………………………3 Sean W. Anthony Fragments of Three Umayyad Official Documents …………………………………………..30 Fred M. Donner Single Isnāds or Riwāyas? Quoted Books in Ibn ʿAsākirʼs Tarjama of Tamīm al-Dārī…………………………………………..……………………………………………………………………48 Jens Scheiner Friendship in the Service of Governance: Makārim al-Akhlāq in Abbasid Political Culture …………………………………………………………………………………………………81 Paul L. Heck Prinzen, Prinzessinnen, Konkubinen und Eunuchen am fatimidischen Hof…….101 Heinz Halm A New Latin-Arabic Document from Norman Sicily (November 595 H/1198 CE)..123 Nadia Jamil and Jeremy Johns RELIGION, LAW, AND ISLAMIC THOUGHT The Rhetorical Qurʾān or Orality as a Theologumenon………………………………………189 Angelika Neuwirth The “Shearing of Forelocks” as a Penitential Rite…………………………………………………212 Marion Holmes Katz Authority in Ibn Abī Zayd al-Qayrawānī’s Kitāb al-nawādir wa-l-ziyādāt ʿalā mā fī l-Mudawwana min ghayrihā min al-ummahāt: The Case of “The Chapter of Judgments” (Kitāb al-aqḍiya)…………………………………..228 Mohammad Fadel A Segment of the Genealogy of Sunni Ḥadīth Criticism: The Mysterious Relationship between al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī and al-Ḥākim al-Naysābūrī…………249 Jonathan Brown Al-Ḥākim al-Naysābūrī and the Companions of the Prophet: An Original Sunnī Voice in the Shīʿī Century…………………………………………………………………………258 Scott C. Lucas Ibn Rushd and Thomas Aquinas on Education…………………………………………………..272 Sebastian Günther Teaching the Learned: Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawānī’s Ijāza to Muʾayyadzāda ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Efendi and the Circulation of Knowledge between Fārs and the Ottoman Empire at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century…………………………306 Judith Pfeiffer Scholars in Networks: ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī and His Travels……………………….360 John O. Voll Rhetorics of Revival: al-Ghazālī and His Modern Heirs………………………………………..381 Kenneth Garden LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND HERITAGE Grammarians on the Afʿāl al-Muqāraba: Steps in the Sources towards a Subdivision of Operants………………………………………..………………………………………..……………………………405 Ramzi Baalbaki Reflections on the Lives and Deaths of Two Umayyad Poets: Laylā al-Akhyaliyya and Tawba b. al-Ḥumayyir……………………..…………………………..432 Aram A. Shahin Literature and Thought: Re-reading al-Tawḥīdī’s Transcription of the Debate between Logic and Grammar………………………………………………………………………………….473 Wen-chin Ouyang The Play of Genre: A Maqāma of “Ease after Hardship” from the Eighth/Fourteenth Century and Its Literary Context…………………………………………………………………………….492 Maurice A. Pomerantz What’s in a Mamluk Picture? The Hall of Portraiture at the Cairo Citadel Remembered……………………………………………………………………………………………….518 Li Guo In Defense of the Use of Qurʾān in Adab: Ibn Abī l-Luṭf’s Rafʿ al-iltibās ʿan munkir al-iqtibās………………………………………………………535 Bilal Orfali Modes of Existence of the Poetry in the Arabian Nights……………………………………..564 Wolfhart Heinrichs Modern Arabic Literature and Islam…………………………………………………………………….576 Stefan Wild Abraham and the Sacrificial Son: Transtextual Strategies in José Saramago’s The Gospel according to Jesus Christ and Elias Khoury’s As though She Were Sleeping……………………………………………………………………………………………………….593 Maher Jarrar The Ideological and Epistemological: Contemporary Readings in Arabo-Islamic Classical Heritage (Turāth)……………………………………………………………………………………………………640 Riḍwān al-Sayyid (Translated by Eman Morsi) Index of Arabic Terms Index of Proper Nouns Notes on the Contributors

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Book SynopsisConverso and Morisco are the terms applied to those Jews and Muslims who converted to Christianity in large numbers and usually under duress in late Medieval Spain. The Converso and Morisco Studies publications will examine the implications of these mass conversions for the converts themselves, for their heirs (also referred to as Conversos and Moriscos) and for Medieval and Modern Spanish culture. As the essays in this collection attest, the study of the Converso and Morisco phenomena is not only important for those scholars focused on Spanish society and culture, but for academics everywhere interested in the issues of identity, Otherness, nationalism, religious intolerance and the challenges of modernity. Contributors include Mercedes Alcalá-Galan, Ruth Fine, Kevin Ingram, Yosef Kaplan, Sara T. Nalle, Juan Ignacio Pulido Serrano, Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço, Ashar Salah, Gretchen Starr-LeBeau, Claude Stuczynski, and Gerard Wiegers.Trade Review“This impeccably edited volume contains tables, images, and an index, and is to be commended for managing to cover the entire temporal and geographical scope of its topic. It is recommended for anybody interested in the history of Moriscos and Conversos, especially since this is a neglected but rich field in need of further research.” Philipp Reisner, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 49, No. 2 (summer 2018), pp. 533-535.Table of ContentsCONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Series Introduction Introduction to this Volume Kevin Ingram Chapter One A Forgotten Campaign against the Conversos of Sigüenza: Pedro Cortés and the Inquisition of Cuenca Sara T Nalle Chapter Two Iberians before the Venetian Inquisition Gretchen Starr-Le Beau Chapter Three The Psalms of David by Daniel Israel López Laguna, a Wandering Jew Ruth Fine Chapter Four Anti-Rabbinic Texts and Converso Identities: Ferna͂o Ximenes de Araga͂os Catholic Doctrine Claude B Stuczynski Chapter Five Injurious Lexicons: Inquisitorial Testimonies regarding New Christians in Macacu, Manila and Nagasaki in the Late Sixteenth Century Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço Chapter Six Converso Complicities in an Atlantic Monarchy: Political and Social Conflicts behind Inquisitorial Persecution Ignacio Pulido Serrano Chapter Seven Philip II as the New Solomon: The Covert Promotion of Religious Toleration and Synergism in Post-Tridentine Spain Kevin Ingram Chapter Eight The Granada Lead Books Translator Miguel de Luna as a Model for both the Toledan Morisco Translator and the Arab Historian Cidi Hamete Benengeli in Cervantes’ Don Quijote Gerard Wiegers Chapter Nine An Attempted Morisco Settlement in Early Seventeenth Century Tuscany Asher Salah Chapter Ten From Mooresses to Odalisques: Representations of the Mooress in the Discourse of the Expulsion Apologists Mercedes Alcalá-Galan Chapter Eleven This Thing Will Preserve their Nation Forever: Circumcision and Conversion in the EarlyModern Western Sephardic Communities Yosef Kaplan Index

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Book SynopsisIn this work translations of four texts are provided from Ghadāmis and from Mali. The first is a biography of the Ghadāmisī scholar ʿAbdallāh b. Abī Bakr al-Ghadāmisī (1626–1719 AD), written by the eighteenth-century author Ibn Muhalhil al-Ghadāmisī. A second text is “The History of al-Sūq”, concerning al-Sūq, the historic town of Tādmakka and the original home of the Kel-Essouk Tuareg. The third text is “The Precious Jewel in the Saharan histories of the ‘People of the Veil’” by Muḥammad Tawjaw al-Sūqī al-Thānī, a contemporary Tuareg author. It pertains to the Kel-Essouk and their historical ties with the Maghreb and West Africa. The final text is a description of the Tuareg from the book “Ghadāmis, its features, its images and its sights” by Bashīr Qāsim Yūshaʿ, published in Arabic in 2001 AD.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements General Introduction Text 1: Tadhkīr al-Nāsī wa-Talyīn al-Qalb al-Qāṣī (The Reminder of the Forgetful and the Softener of the Harsh), by Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Mūsā b. Muhalhil al-Ghadāmisī Text 2: Khabar al-Sūq (The history of al-Sūq), by ʿAbd al-Hamīd ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥarāma Text 3: al-Jawhar al-Thamīn fi Akhbār Ṣaḥrāʾ al-Mulaththamīn (The Precious Jewel in the Saharan Histories of the “People of the Veil”), by Muḥammad Tawjaw al-Sūqī al-Thānī Text 4: Ghadāmis, Malāmiḥ wa-Ṣuwar (Ghadāmis, Its Features, Its Images and Its Sights), by Bashīr Qāsim Yūshaʿ Conclusion Figures Selected Bibliography Subjects Index

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Book SynopsisAl-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) is one of the most influential thinkers of Islam. There is hardly a genre of Islamic literature where he is not regarded as a major authority. Islamic Law, Sufism, ethics, philosophy, and theology are all deeply shaped by him. Yet in the past thirty years, the field of Ghazālī-studies has been shaken by the realization that Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d. 428/1037) and other philosophers had a strong influence on him. Now, after the 900th anniversary at his death, the field emerges stronger than ever. This second volume of Islam and Rationality: The Impact of al-Ghazālī brings together twelve leading experts on al-Ghazālī who write about his thought and the impact it had on later Muslim thinkers. Contributors are: Anna Ayşe Akasoy, Ahmed El Shamsy, Kenneth Garden, Frank Griffel, Jules Janssens, Damien Janos, Taneli Kukkonen, Stephen Ogden, M. Sait Özervarlı, Martin Riexinger, Ulrich Rudolph, and Ayman Shihadeh.Table of ContentsContents Preface Notes on Contributors Keys and Conventions Part I Al-Ghazālī’s Works and His Thought 1 Al-Ghazālī on Error Taneli Kukkonen 2 Al-Ghazālī’s Concept of Philosophy Ulrich Rudolph 3 Problems in al-Ghazālī’s Perfect World: Objections and Counter-Objections to His Best Possible World Thesis Stephen Ogden 4 Al-Ghazālī’s Teleology and the Galenic Tradition Reading The Wisdom in God’s Creations (al-Ḥikma fī makhlūqāt Allah) Ahmed El Shamsy 5 Al-Ghazālī and Kalām: The Conundrum of His Body-Soul Dualism Ayman Shihadeh 6 Al-Ghazali's Veils Section: Comparative Religion before Religionswissenschaft? Anna Ayṣe Akasoy 7 Is There An Autograph of al-Ghazālī in MS Yale, Landberg 318? Frank Griffel Part II Al-Ghazālī’s Influence 8 Intuition, Intellection, and Mystical Knowledge: Delineating Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Cognitive Theories Damien Janos 9 Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Use of al-Ghazālī’s Mishkāt in His Commentary on the Light Verse (Q 24:35) Jules Janssens 10 Ottoman Perceptions of al-Ghazālī’s Works and Discussions on His Historical Role in the Late Ottoman Period M. Sait Özervarlı 11 Al-Ghazālī’s “Demarcation of Science:” A Commonplace Apology in the Muslim Reception of Modern Science — and its Limitations Martin Riexinger 12 The Revival of the Religious Sciences in the Twenty-First Century: Suʿād Ḥakīm’s Adaptation of al-Ghazālī’s Revival Kenneth Garden Indices

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Book SynopsisChristian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History, Volume 8 (CMR 8) covering Northern and Eastern Europe in the period 1600-1700, is a continuing volume in a general history of relations between the two faiths from the seventh century to the early 20th century. It comprises a series of introductory essays and also the main body of detailed entries which treat all the works, surviving or lost, that have been recorded. These entries provide biographical details of the authors, descriptions and assessments of the works themselves, and complete accounts of manuscripts, editions, translations and studies. The result of collaboration between numerous leading scholars, CMR 8, along with the other volumes in this series is intended as a basic tool for research in Christian-Muslim relations. Section Editors: Clinton Bennett, Luis F. Bernabe Pons, Jaco Beyers, Lejla Demiri, Martha Frederiks, David Grafton, Stanisław Grodź, Alan Guenther, Emma Loghin, Gordon Nickel, Claire Norton, Reza Pourjavady, Douglas Pratt, Radu Păun, Peter Riddell, Umar Ryad, Cornelia Soldat, Karel Steenbrink, Davide Tacchini, Ann Thomson, Serge Traore, Carsten WalbinerTrade Review'[...] as a product of two eminent theologists who display a thorough mastery of their subject, the book reflects the painstaking efforts of a host of writers who piece together the history of Christian-Muslim relations in the hopes, not only of assisting in a commendable project but in providing those works with well-deserved recognition. Written in a fluid English that maintains the simplicity of the language, the book can be enjoyed for more than just academic research. While someone with advanced academic accolades in world history or political science may find the book an extremely useful resource and wish to debate its contents, the book also generates lasting interest and curiosity for readers who are outside the discipline but seek knowledge about human history, culture, and religion'. Aditi Paul, Political Analyst and Reseacher, in Acta Via Serica, Vol. 5, No. 1, June 2020: 199–213

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Book SynopsisThe acceptance of female leadership in mosques and madrassas is a significant change from much historical practice, signalling the mainstream acceptance of some form of female Islamic authority in many places. This volume investigates the diverse range of female religious leadership present in contemporary Muslim communities in South, East and Central Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and North America, with chapters discussing its emergence, the limitations placed upon it, and its wider impact, as well as the physical and virtual spaces used by women to establish and consolidate their authority. It will be invaluable as a reference text, as it is the first to bring together analysis of female Islamic leadership in geographically and ideologically-diverse Muslim communities worldwide.Trade ReviewAbout the hardback: “The book represents a somehow oblique – and original – look at an absolutely magmatic universe where women are observed while they achieve “authority” and “leadership” in Muslim contexts […].” Manuela Galaverni in Islamochristiana 38 (2012), 330-331. “…an erudite, nuanced and detailed exploration of religious authority. […] …an invaluable book.” From: The Muslim World Book Review34.4 (2014).Table of ContentsPreface Author Biographies Introduction: Islamic Authority and the Study of Female Religious Leaders, Hilary Kalmbach SECTION I SPACE FOR FEMALE AUTHORITY: MALE INVITATION, STATE INTERVENTION, AND FEMALE INITIATIVE Introduction to Section I 1.1 Sources of Authority: Female Ahong and Qingzhen Nüsi (Women’s Mosques) in China, Maria Jaschok 1.2 Women Mosque Preachers and Spiritual Guides: Publicizing and Negotiating Women’s Religious Authority in Morocco, Margaret J. Rausch 1.3 Reshaping Religious Authority in Contemporary Turkey: State-Sponsored Female Preachers, Mona Hassan 1.4 From Qurʾānic Circles to the Internet: Gender Segregation and the Rise of Female Preachers in Saudi Arabia, Amélie Le Renard 1.5 The Life of Two Mujtahidahs: Female Religious Authority in Twentieth-Century Iran, Mirjam Künkler and Roja Fazaeli 1.6 The Qubaysīyyāt: The Growth of an International Muslim Women’s Revivalist Movement from Syria (1960–2008), Sarah Islam SECTION II ESTABLISHING FEMALE AUTHORITY: LIMITATIONS, SPACES, AND STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING AND PREACHING 2.1 Leading by Example? Women Madrasah Teachers in Rural North India, Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery, and Craig Jeffrey 2.2 Thinking for Oneself? Forms and Elements of Religious Authority in Dutch Muslim Women’s Groups, Nathal M. Dessing 2.3 Celebrating Miss Muslim Pageants and Opposing Rock Concerts: Contrasting the Religious Authority and Leadership of Two Muslim Women in Kazan, N. R. Micinski 2.4 Textual and Ritual Command: Muslim Women as Keepers and Transmitters of Interpretive Domains in Contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina, Catharina Raudvere 2.5 “She is always present”: Female Leadership and Informal Authority in a Swiss Muslim Women’s Association, Petra Bleisch Bouzar 2.6 Muslimahs’ Impact on and Acquisition of Islamic Religious Authority in Flanders, Els Vanderwaeren 2.7 Women, Leadership, and Participation in Mosques and Beyond: Notes from Stuttgart, Germany, Petra Kuppinger 2.8 Remembering Fāṭimah: New Means of Legitimizing Female Authority in Contemporary Shīʿī Discourse, Matthew Pierce SECTION III THE IMPACT OF AUTHORITY ON MUSLIM WOMEN, MUSLIM SOCIETIES, AND CONCEPTIONS OF ISLAMIC AUTHORITY Introduction to Section III 3.1 Challenging from Within: Youth Associations and Female Leadership in Swedish Mosques, Pia Karlsson Minganti 3.2 Gender Strategy and Authority in Islamic Discourses: Female Preachers in Contemporary Egypt, Hiroko Minesaki 3.3 Translating Text to Context: Muslim Women Activists in Indonesia, Pieternella Van Doorn-Harder 3.4 Making Islam Relevant: Female Authority and Representation of Islam in Germany, Riem Spielhaus 3.5 Activism as Embodied Tafsīr: Negotiating Women’s Authority, Leadership, and Space in North America, Juliane Hammer 3.6 Women’s Rights to Mosque Space: Access and Participation in Cape Town Mosques, Uta Christina Lehmann Conclusion: Female Leadership in Mosques: An Evolving Narrative, Masooda Bano Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisThe seventeenth century was a period of major social change in central sudanic Africa. Islam spread from royal courts to rural communities, leading to new identities, new boundaries and new tasks for experts of the religion. Addressing these issues, the Bornu scholar Muḥammad al-Wālī acquired an exceptional reputation. Dorrit van Dalen’s study places him within his intellectual environment, and portrays him as responding to the concerns of ordinary Muslims. It shows that scholars on the geographical margins of the Muslim world participated in the debates in the centres of Muslim learning of the time, but on their own terms. Al-Wālī’s work also sheds light on a century in the Islamic history of West Africa that has until now received little attention.Trade Review'To conclude, van Dalen’s book is an important contribution, successfully navigating between global and local contexts. Doubt, Scholarship and Society encompasses text edition and translation with a trans-disciplinary analysis combining micro and global history, anthropology, religious studies, and palaeography, which is the best way, in this reviewers opinion, to renovate African history'. Rémi Dewière, European University Institute in Reading Religion http://readingreligion.org/books/doubt-scholarship-and-society-17th-century-central-sudanic-africaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements A note on transliteration Map of western and northern Africa 1. Preface 1. One man in his environment 2. Coordinates 3. Intellectual history and philology 4. Peripheries 5. Sources and structure 2. Dramatis loci 1. A history of Bornu and Baghirmi as Islamic states 2. The spread of Islam 3. Ethnicity, religion, slavery 4. Islam and traditional religions 5. Conclusion 3. Muḥammad al-Wālī 1. Biography 2. Works 3. Reputation 4. Education 5. Conclusion 4. The scholar’s habitat 1. Scholarship 2. Religious leadership 3. Intellectual environment: genres 4. Intellectual environment: themes 5. Conclusion 5. Method and message 1. Al-Sanūsi’s Ṣughra 2. The Kabbe 3. Between oral and scholarly text 4. Tradition with a twist 5. Conclusion 6. Demonising smokers 1. How tobacco conquered the Islamic lands 2. Al-Wālī’s point of view 3. A folktale about the devil’s piss 4. From Abgar to al-Azhar 5. Conclusion 7. On writing 1. Author and authority 2. Why did al-Wālī translate the Fulani commentary? 3. From orality to literacy 4. Knowing and the knower 5. Conclusion 8. Certainties in times of choice Annex I. Al-adilla al-ḥisān fī bayān taḥrīm shurb al-dukhān. An edition of the Arabic text. Annex II. Valid proofs to proclaim smoking forbidden. A translation. Annex III. ʿAwsikum yā maʿshar al-ikhwān. An edition of al-Wālī’s poem. Bibliography

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Book SynopsisPatricia Crone's Collected Studies in Three Volumes brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised writings on Near Eastern and Islamic history, arranged around three distinct but interconnected themes. Volume 1, The Qurʾānic Pagans and Related Matters, pursues the reconstruction of the religious environment in which Islam arose and develops an intertextual approach to studying the Qurʾānic religious milieu. Volume 2, The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands, examines the reception of pre-Islamic legacies in Islam, above all that of the Iranians. Volume 3, Islam, the Ancient Near East and Varieties of Godlessness, places the rise of Islam in the context of the ancient Near East and investigates sceptical and subversive ideas in the Islamic world. The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands Islam, the Ancient Near East and Varieties of GodlessnessTrade Review"..once again she has forced scholars to engage her arguments, made a strong case for skepticism of the traditional accounts, and set the direction of a debate for years to come." Herbert Berg in The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 34:2Table of ContentsEditor’s preface Author’s preface 1. How did the Qurʾānic pagans make a living? 2. Quraysh and the Roman army: Making sense of the Meccan leather trade 3. The religion of the Qurʾānic pagans: God and the lesser deities 4. Angels versus humans as messengers of God: The view of the Qurʾānic pagans 5. The Qurʾānic mushrikūn and the resurrection (Part I) 6. The Qurʾānic mushrikūn and the resurrection (Part II) 7. The Book of Watchers in the Qurʾān 8. War 9. Jewish Christianity and the Qurʾān (Part I) 10. Jewish Christianity and the Qurʾān (Part II) 11. Pagan Arabs as God-fearers 12. Problems in sura 53 13. No compulsion in religion: Q. 2:256 in medieval and modern interpretation 14. Islam and religious freedom 15. Tribes without saints List of Patricia Crone’s publications Index to volume 1

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Book SynopsisFreethinkers of Medieval Islam focuses on the express denial of prophecy in the medieval Islamicate world. The development of Islamic freethinking is analyzed against the background of the significance of prophets in Islam. In her book, Sarah Stroumsa examines the image of freethinkers, and the repercussions of freethinking on Muslim, Jewish and Christian medieval thought. She argue that freethinking, as exemplified by figures like Ibn al-Rāwandī (9th C.) and Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (10th C.), was a pivotal phenomenon, that had a major impact on the development of Islamic thought. In the present context of religious violence carried out in the name of Islam, this book highlights the striking existence of independent freethinking in the world of Islam.

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Book SynopsisIn Muslim Sanzijing, Shifts and Continuities in the Definition of Islam in China (1710-2010) Roberta Tontini traces the development of Islam and Islamic law in the country, while responding to two enduring questions in China’s intellectual history: How was the Muslim sharia reconciled with Confucianism? How was knowledge of Islamic social and ritual norms popularized to large segments of Chinese Muslim society even in periods of limited literacy? Through a comprehensive study that includes a rigorous analysis of popular Chinese Islamic primers belonging to the Sanzijing tradition, Tontini offers fresh insights on the little known intellectual and legal history of Islam on Chinese soil to convincingly demonstrate its evolving quality in response to changing social norms.Trade Review"Historian Roberta Tontini brilliantly engages the problem of continuity and shifts head on in her Muslim Sanzijing...One is struck by the rich history of this text that Tontini exposes as she writes the biography of the book, looking at many lives it took on during the past 200 years." Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York University, Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, No. 23 (June 2017) "[A] brilliant account on the history of China's acquaintance with Islam and its jurisprudence. This highly informative and insightful monograph addresses a largely neglected theme in the field of Chinese Muslim studies." Tommaso Previato, Academia Sinica, Bulletin de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient, 102 (2016)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction Motivation and Relevance Literature Review Roadmap Conceptual Definitions Chapter 2. Tianfang Dianli: Norms and Rites of Islamic Law in Imperial China Introduction: Legal Traditions in Cultural Convergence Hanafi Regionalism and the Chinese “Sunna” Rethinking Jurisprudence The Chinese Sharia Confucian Frameworks of Islamic Jurisprudence Conclusion: Islamic Law in Cultural Translation Chapter 3. Tianfang Sanzijing: A Regional(ist) Theory on Islamic Law Introduction: Liu Zhi and Yuan Guozuo’s Joint Intellectual Enterprise Coming of Age in Chinese Islamic Literacy Wugong: From Religious Pillars to Social Bricks Rite and Law in the “Great Learning” of Islam Traditions as Cradles of Transitions: Establishing Regionalism in Chinese Islamic Law Conclusion: The “Filiative Transmission” of Islam in China Chapter 4. Islamic Law in the Aftermath of the Anti-Qing Rebellions Introduction: Novel Texts for Rebellious Contexts Beginning, Unfolding and Indigenizing the Transmission Rethinking Orthodoxy “Ways” of Islam in a Changing Society New Perspectives on Social Order Conclusion: The Legacy of Two Primers Chapter 5. Rethinking Liu Zhi’s Legacy in Postimperial China Introduction: Islam in Transition Strengthening the Chinese Nation: Hu Songshan’s Three Character Primer of Islam China’s “Muslim Brothers”: A Regional Trajectory Red Star over Muslims: Hu Xueliang’s Sanzijing for Girls “Love Your Country, Love Your Religion”: Na Guochang’s Sequel to the Tianfang Sanzijing Chapter 6. Islam’s Filiative Transmission to Modernity Conclusion: The Great Learning of Islam in China Works Cited

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Book SynopsisPatricia Crone's Collected Studies in Three Volumes brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised writings on Near Eastern and Islamic history, arranged around three distinct but interconnected themes. Volume 3, Islam, the Ancient Near East and Varieties of Godlessness, places the rise of Islam in the context of the ancient Near East and investigates sceptical and subversive ideas in the Islamic world. Volume 1, The Qurʾānic Pagans and Related Matters, pursues the reconstruction of the religious environment in which Islam arose and develops an intertextual approach to studying the Qurʾānic religious milieu. Volume 2, The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands, examines the reception of pre-Islamic legacies in Islam, above all that of the Iranians. The Qurʾānic Pagans and Related Matters The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist StrandsTable of ContentsEditor’s preface Author’s preface 1. ‘Barefoot and naked’: What did the bedouin of the Arab conquests look like? 2. The ancient Near East and Islam: The case of lot-casting 3. Idrīs, Atraḫasīs and al-Khiḍr 4. Abū Saʿīd al-Ḥaḍrī and the punishment of unbelievers 5. The Dahrīs according to al-Jāḥiẓ 6. Ungodly cosmologies 7. Post-colonialism in tenth-century Islam 8. What are prophets for? The social utility of religion in medieval Islamic thought 9. Oral transmission of subversive ideas from the Islamic world to Europe: The case of the three impostors 10. How the field has changed in my lifetime 11. List of publications Index to volume 3

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Book Synopsisal-Radd al-jamīl attributed to al-Ghazālī (d. 1111) is the most extensive and detailed refutation of the divinity of Jesus by a Muslim author in the classical period of Islam. Since the discovery of the manuscript in the 1930’s scholars have debated whether the great Muslim theologian al-Ghazālī was really the author. This is a new critical edition of the Arabic text and the first complete English translation. The introduction situates this work in the history of Muslim anti-Christian polemical writing. Mark Beaumont and Maha El Kaisy-Friemuth argue that this refutation comes from an admirer of al-Ghazālī who sought to advance some of his key ideas for an Egyptian audience.Table of ContentsForeword The Context and Authorship of al-Radd al-jamīl - The Context of al-Radd al-jamīl - The Authorship of al-Radd al-jamīl - Arguments supporting the authorship of al-Ghazālī - al-Radd al-jamīl and the Sufi writing of al-Ghazālī - Arguments against the authorship of al-Ghazālī - When was al-Radd al-jamīl written? - Who wrote al-Radd al-jamīl? - Appendix Outline of al-Radd al-jamīl al-Radd al-jamīl in the Context of Muslim Refutations of Christianity - Jesus’ miracles do not confirm his divinity - The Gospels provide evidence for the fact that Jesus was a messenger sent from God. Passages in the fourth gospel that Christians propose as literal proof for the divinity of Jesus should be interpreted metaphorically - The Jacobite belief that the union of the soul and body is an analogy for the union of the divinity and humanity of Jesus is inappropriate - The Melkite separation of the divine and human natures in Jesus at the point of his death is irrational - The Nestorian conviction that the will of Jesus was united with the will of God is not supported by the Christian gospels - Christian scriptures show that titles given to Jesus that Christians believe point to his divine status should be taken as symbols of his spiritual eminence as a messenger of God - Christian appeal to the Qurʾān to support the divinity of Jesus is mistaken - Conclusion Quotations and References from the Bible Quotations and References from the Qur’ān Index

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Book SynopsisIn Rule-Formulation and Binding Precedent in the Madhhab-Law Tradition, Talal Al-Azem argues for the existence of a madhhab-law tradition’ of jurisprudence underpinning the four post-classical Sunni schools of law. This tradition celebrated polyvalence by preserving the multiplicity of conflicting opinions within each school, while simultaneously providing a process of rule formulation (tarjīḥ) by which one opinion is chosen as the binding precedent (taqlīd). The predominant forum of both activities, he shows, was the legal commentary. Through a careful reading of Ibn Quṭlūbughā's (d. 879/1474) al-Taṣḥīḥ wa-al-tarjīḥ, Al-Azem presents a new periodisation of the Ḥanafī madhhab, analyses the theory of rule formulation, and demonstrates how this madhhab-law tradition facilitated both continuity and legal change while serving as the basis of a pluralistic Mamluk judicial system.Table of ContentsCO N T E N T S Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Authors 23 A The compendium author: Qudūrī . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 B The commentator: Ibn Quṭlūbughā . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Chapter 2 History 51 A Ibn Quṭlūbughā’s sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 B Periodisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Period 1: Foundational ‘Ḥanafī’ opinions (ca. 150–200) . . . 57 Period 2: Formative transmission (ca. 200–300) . . . . . . 58 Period 3: Classical consolidation (ca. 300–400) . . . . . . 60 Period 4: Tarjīḥ (ca. 400–650) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Period 5: Taṣḥīḥ (ca. 650–870) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Who are the ‘latter-day jurists’ (al-muta’akhkhirūn)? . . . . 87 C Historical geographical patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 D Periodisation and the typologies of jurists (ṭabaqāt al-fuqahā’) 96 Chapter 3 Theory 105 A Ibn Quṭlūbughā’s introduction to al-Taṣḥīḥ wa-al-tarjīḥ . . 108 B Analysis of the topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 2 The procedures of rule-determinacy . . . . . . . . . . 125 3 Judicial discretion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 C Arguments for binding precedent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 1 The ethico-religious argument . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 2 The argument from legal-system consistency . . . . . 139 3 The argument from legal-system coherence . . . . . . 143 4 The argument from strengthened decision-making . . 145 5 The argument from predictability . . . . . . . . . . . 145 viii CO N T E N T S 6 The argument from historical determinism . . . . . . 146 D Historical developments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 1 Target audiences: muftis and muftis . . . . . . . . . . 149 2 Rule-determination (tarjīḥ) vs. rule-review (taṣḥīḥ) . . 150 3 From monist to pluralistic legal systems . . . . . . . . 153 4 Madhhab-law: tradition, system, concurrent jurisdictions 154 E The (lack of) definition of ẓāhir al-riwāya . . . . . . . . . . 157 Chapter 4 Practice 163 A Ibn Quṭlūbughā’s practice of rule-review . . . . . . . . . . 163 B The functional relationships of commentary . . . . . . . . 166 To resolve a juristic dispute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 To clarify a point of ambiguity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 To identify the opinion or the transmission used in the rule formulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 To further expand upon the passage . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 To identify an editorial problem in the passage itself . . . . 187 C Employed legal rhetorical reasoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 1 Arguments of juristic evidence (dalīl) . . . . . . . . . 190 2 Arguments of transmission (riwāya) . . . . . . . . . . 192 3 Arguments of language and logic . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 4 Arguments from revelation and the early Muslim community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 5 Arguments from scholarship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 6 Justifications from juristic considerations . . . . . . . 202 7 Justifications from context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 8 Justifications from exigencies of change and necessity . 209 9 Justifications of lifting difficulty and facilitating ease . 212 10 Justifications of preceding juristic authority . . . . . . 214 D Operative principles of rule-determination . . . . . . . . . 218 E The degree of congruence between theory and practice . . 229 Conclusion 235 Appendices 243 A The Writings of Qudūrī 245 B Jurists cited by Ibn Quṭlūbughā 249 C Works cited by Ibn Quṭlubughā 255 CO N T E N T S ix Works Cited 259 Index 271

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Book SynopsisThe present volume focuses on the political perceptions of the Hajj, its global religious appeal to Muslims, and the European struggle for influence and supremacy in the Muslim world in the age of pre-colonial and colonial empires. In the late fifteenth century and early sixteenth century, a pivotal change in seafaring occurred, through which western Europeans played important roles in politics, trade, and culture. Viewing this age of empires through the lens of the Hajj puts it into a different perspective, by focusing on how increasing European dominance of the globe in pre-colonial and colonial times was entangled with Muslim religious action, mobility, and agency. The study of Europe’s connections with the Hajj therefore tests the hypothesis that the concept of agency is not limited to isolated parts of the globe. By adopting the “tools of empires,” the Hajj, in itself a global activity, would become part of global and trans-cultural history. With contributions by: Aldo D’Agostini; Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste; Ulrike Freitag; Mahmood Kooria; Michael Christopher Low; Adam Mestyan; Umar Ryad; John Slight and Bogusław R. Zagórski.Trade Review"[The Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire] offers fresh insights about European political perceptions of and policies regarding the ḥajj between the sixteenth and late-twentieth centuries. Embracing such a long historical span and wide geographical range in nine chapters makes this an ambitious book, but case studies are given for the countries and empires of Britain, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Spain." - Jamie Gilham, in: Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations 30/3 (2019)Table of ContentsChapter 1 Mahmood Kooria, “Killed the pilgrims and persecuted them with all kinds of cruelties”: Portuguese Estado da India’s encounters with the Hajj in the sixteenth century. Chapter 2 Michael Christopher Low, “The Infidel Piloting the True Believer”: Thomas Cook and the business of the colonial Hajj. Chapter 3 John Slight, British colonial knowledge and the Hajj in the Age of Empire. Chapter 4 Aldo D’Agostini, French Policy and the Hajj in late-nineteenth-century Algeria: Governor Cambon’s reform attempts and Jules Gervais-Courtellemont’s pilgrimage to Mecca. Chapter 5 Ulrike Freitag, Heinrich Freiherr von Maltzan’s “My Pilgrimage to Mecca”: A critical investigation. Chapter 6 Bogusław R. Zagórski, Polish connections to the Hajj in the nineteenth century: Mystical and imaginary travels to Mecca and the Polish cultural tradition. Chapter 7 Umar Ryad, On his donkey to the Mountain of ʿArafāt: Dr. Van der Hoog and his Hajj journey to Mecca. Chapter 7 Adam Mestyan, “I Have To Disguise Myself”: Orientalism, Gyula Germanus, and pilgrimage as cultural capital, 1935–1965. Chapter 9 Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste, Franco’s North African pilgrims after WWII: The Hajj through the Eyes of a Spanish colonial officer (1949).

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Book SynopsisIn Caliphate and Kingship in a Fifteenth-Century Literary History of Muslim Leadership and Pilgrimage Jo Van Steenbergen presents a new study, edition and translation of al-Ḏahab al-Masbūk fī Ḏikr man Ḥağğa min al-Ḫulafāʾ wa-l-Mulūk, a summary history of the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca by al-Maqrīzī (766-845 AH/ca. 1365-1442 CE). Traditionally considered as a useful source for the history of the ḥağğ, al-Ḏahab al-Masbūk is re-interpreted here as a complex literary construction that was endowed with different meanings. Through detailed contextualist, narratological, semiotic and codicological analyses Van Steenbergen demonstrates how these meanings were deeply embedded in early-fifteenth century Egyptian transformations, how they changed substantially over time, and how they included particular claims about authorship and about legitimate and good Muslim rule.

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Book SynopsisThe Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts in Belgium is a union catalogue aiming is to present the Oriental manuscripts held by various Belgian public institutions (Royal Library, university and public libraries). These collections and their contents are largely unknown to scholars due to the lack of published catalogues. This first volume, consisting of a bi-lingual (English and Arabic) handlist, concerns the collection of the Université de Liège, which holds the largest number of Oriental manuscripts (c. 500). Each title is briefly described, identifying the author and offering basic material information. Most of the manuscripts described in this handlist originate from North Africa.Table of ContentsForeword Introduction List of Abbreviations Transliteration Table Handlist Arabic Manuscripts Varia Persian Manuscripts Varia Turkish Manuscripts Varia Indexes Dated Manuscripts Lithographs Authors Copyists Patrons Places of Copy Shelf numbers Plates

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Book SynopsisThis new volume of essays marks eighty years since the death of Marmaduke Pickthall. His various roles as translator of the Qurʾan, traveller to the Near East, political journalist writing on behalf of Muslim Turkey, and creator of the Muslim novel are discussed. In later life Pickthall became a prominent member of the British Muslim community in London and Woking, co-worker with Muslims in the Indian subcontinent, supporter of the Khilafat movement, and editor of the journal Islamic Culture under the patronage of the Nizam of Hyderabad. Marmaduke Pickthall: Islam and the Modern World makes an important contribution to the field of Muslims in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Contributors are: Humayun Ansari, Adnan Ashraf, James Canton, Peter Clark, Ron Geaves, A.R. Kidwai, Faruk Kokoglu, Andrew C. Long, Geoffrey P. Nash, M. A. Sherif and Mohammad Siddique Seddon.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword: Marmaduke Pickthall After 1936, PETER CLARK 1. Introduction: Pickthall, Islam and the Modern World, GEOFFREY P. NASH Part One: Pickthall and the British Muslim Community 2. Pickthall, Muslims of South Asia, and members of the British Muslim Community of the early 1900s, K. HUMAYUN ANSARI 3. Marmaduke Pickthall and the British Muslim Convert Community JAMIE GILHAM 4. Abdullah Quilliam (Henri de Léon) and Marmaduke Pickthall: Agreements and disagreements between two prominent Muslims in the London and Woking Communities, RON GEAVES Part Two: Pickthall’s Religious and Political Thought 5. Pickthall’s Anti-Ottoman Dissent: The Politics of Religious Conversion, MOHAMMAD SIDDIQUE SEDDON 6. Pickthall’s Islamic Politics, M.A.SHERIF 7. Pickthall, Ottomanism, and Modern Turkey, GEOFFREY P. NASH Part Three: Man of Letters, Traveller and Translator 8. Oriental Eyes – or seeing and being seen: Popular Culture and the Near Eastern fiction of Marmaduke Pickthall, ANDREW C. LONG 9. A Vehicle for the Sacred: Marmaduke Pickthall’s Near Eastern novels, ADNAN ASHRAF 10. Becoming Woman and Gender Typologies in Marmaduke Pickthall’s Oriental fiction, FARUK KÖKOĞLU 11. “Throwing off the European”: Marmaduke Pickthall’s travels in Arabia 1892-94, JAMES CANTON 12. Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall’s English translation of the Quran (1930): An Assessment, A.R. KIDWAI Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first collection of studies entirely devoted to the terminological pair dār al-islām / dar al-ḥarb, “the abode of Islam” and “the abode of war”, apparently widely known as representative of “the Islamic vision” of the world, but in fact almost unexplored. A team of specialists in different fields of Islamic studies investigates the issue in its historical and conceptual origins as well as in its reception within the different genres of Muslim written production. In contrast to the fixed and permanent categories they are currently identified with, the multifaceted character of these two notions and their shifting meanings is set out through the analysis of a wide range of contexts and sources, from the middle ages up to modern times. Contributors are Francisco Apellániz, Michel Balivet, Giovanna Calasso, Alessandro Cancian, Éric Chaumont, Roberta Denaro, Maribel Fierro, Chiara Formichi, Yohanan Friedmann, Giuliano Lancioni, Yaacov Lev, Nicola Melis, Luis Molina, Antonino Pellitteri, Camille Rhoné-Quer, Francesca Romana Romani, Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti, Roberto Tottoli, Raoul Villano, Eleonora Di Vincenzo and Francesco Zappa.Trade Review“This valuable addition to the bibliography of Islamic law and history manages to present nearly all the ways that have been used to look at it, to move around it and to use it.” Sotirios S. Livas in Journal of Oriental and African Studies 27 (2018), 422-424.Table of ContentsGiovanna Calasso, Introduction: Concepts, Words, Historical Realities of a “Classical” Dichotomy Section I. Concepts and Terminology Giovanna Calasso, Constructing and Deconstructing the Opposition dār al-islām / dār al-ḥarb: Between Sources and Studies Giuliano Lancioni, The Missing dār: On Collocations in Classical Arabic dictionaries Yaacov Lev, The Perception of the Others. Rūm and Franks (Tenth-Twelfth Centuries) Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti, Some Observations on dār al-ḥarb / dār al-islām in the Imami Context Section II. Early Texts Roberta Denaro, Naming the Enemy’s Land: Definitions of dār al-ḥarb in Ibn al-Mubārak’s Kitāb al-Jihād Roberto Tottoli, Dār al-islām / dār al-ḥarb in the Tafsīr by Ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī and in Early Traditions Raoul Villano, The Qur’anic foundation of the dichotomy dār al-islām / dār al-ḥarb: an unusual hypothesis Section III. Law: theory and practice Éric Chaumont, Dār al-islām et dār al-ḥarb: Quelques réflexions à propos de la géographie théologico-politique sunnite classique, en regard du Kitāb al-Muhaḏḏab d’Abū Isḥāq al-Šīrāzī (m. 476/1083) Francisco Apellániz, An Unknown Minority Between the dār al-ḥarb and the dār al-Islām Nicola Melis, Some Observations on the Concept of dār al-ʿahd in Ottoman Context (XVI-XVII c.) Section IV. History of specific areas Maribel Fierro and Luis Molina, Some Notes on dār al-ḥarb in Early al-Andalus Camille Rhoné, Les émirs d’Iran nord-oriental face aux steppes turques (IXe-XIe siècle) entre légitimation, confrontation et cohabitation Michel Balivet, Dār al-islām ou bilād al-rūm? Le cas de l’Anatolie turque au Moyen- ge Francesco Zappa, Une appartenance controversée : trois moments dans le débat autour du statut du bilād al-sūdān Section V. Modern and contemporary developments Alessandro Cancian, Faith as Territory: dār al-islām and dār al-ḥarb in Modern Shi’i Sufism Chiara Formichi, Dār al-islām and Darul Islam: from Political Ideal to Territorial Reality Yohanan Friedmann, Dār al-islām and dār al-ḥarb in Modern Indian Muslim Thought Antonino Pellitteri, Better barr al-ʿaduww Than dār al-ḥarb: Some Considerations about Eighteenth Century maġribī Chronicles Francesca Romana Romani and Eleonora Di Vincenzo, Muḥammad Bayram’s Risāla fī dār al-ḥarb wa-suknāhā: A Modern Reinterpretation of Living in dār al-ḥarb Giuliano Lancioni, Concluding remarks: The terminological array

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Book SynopsisIn Ibāḍī Texts from the 2nd/8th Century Abdulrahman Al-Salimi and Wilferd Madelung present an edition of fourteen Ibāḍī religious texts and explain their contents and extraordinary source value for the early history of Islam. The Ibāḍīs constitutes the moderate wing of the Kharijite opposition movement to the Umayyad and ‘Abbasid caliphates. The texts edited are mostly polemical letters to opponents or exhortatory to followers by ‘Abd Allah b. Ibad , Abu l-‘Ubayda Muslim b. Abi Karima and other Ibadi leaders in Basra, Oman and Hadramawt. An epistle detailing the offences of the caliph ‘Uthman is by the early Kufan historiographer al-Haytham b. ‘Adi. By their early date and independence of the mainstream historical tradition these txts offer the modern historian of Islam an invaluable complement to the well-known literary sources.Trade Review"Researchers and students of Islamic intellectual history will be grateful for having more material to make sense of the classical period of Islamic theological traditions." Sajjad Rizvi in: The Muslim World Book Review, 40:3, 2020 "The scientific edition of these fourteen early Ibāḍī texts, all from the 2nd/8th century, together in one book, constitutes a welcome addition to the growing body of newly edited and published old Ibāḍī texts." Martin Custers, in: Bibliotheca Orientalis LXXVI N° 1-2 (2019)Table of Contents1- The Introduction. 2- The Texts a. Letter of ‘Abd Allāh b. Ibāḍ to ‘Abd al-Malik b. Marwān. b. Ibāḍ’s second letter to ‘Abd al-Malik. c. Epistle of Abū Mawdūd Ḥājib. d. Letter of Muslim Abū ‘Ubayda and Ḥājib to the people of the Maghrib when they disagreed concerning the matter of ‘Abd al-Jabbār and al-Ḥārith such that they killed each other. e. Epistle of Abū ‘Ubayda and Abū Mawdūd. f. Epistle of Abū ‘Ubayda and Abī Mawdūd to al-Faḍl b. Kathīr. g. A letter of Abū ‘Ubayda. h. Epistle of Abū ‘Ubayda about the alms tax. i. Epistle of Shabīb b. ‘Aṭiyya al-‘Umānī. j. Letter of Shabīb b. ‘Aṭiyya to ‘Abd al-Salām against the Doubters and the Murji’a. k. Epistle of Khalaf b. Ziyād al-Baḥrānī. l. Epistle of the Jurist Sheikh Wā’il b. Ayyūb. m. Book in which there is a reply to the people of uncertainty. n. Epitome of a book in which there is the description of the offences of ‘Uthmān b. ‘Affān.

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Book SynopsisIslamic Studies Today: Essays in Honor of Andrew Rippin, is a collection of essays on the Qur’ān, qur’anic exegesis, the early history of Islam, the relationship of the qur’anic text to writings from other religious traditions, and the use of the Qur’ān in modern discussions and debates. Its scope is medieval and modern contexts and it covers regions right across the Muslim world. The essays are based on and reflect Rippin's broad interests and methodological innovations; his studies of text transmissions, hermeneutical studies of the Qur’ān; careful unpacking of the complex relations between qur’anic exegesis and historical contexts; and exploring potential new methodologies for future research. With contributions by: Herbert Berg, Stefano Bigliardi, Majid Daneshgar, Bruce Fudge, Claude Gilliot, Andreas Görke Feras Hamza, Gerald Hawting, Aaron W. Hughes, Tariq Jaffer, Marianna Klar, Jane McAuliffe, Arnold Yasin Mol, Angelika Neuwirth, Gordon Nickel, Johanna Pink, Michael E. Pregill, Gabriel S. Reynolds, Peter G. Riddell, Walid A. Saleh, Nicolai Sinai, Roberto TottoliTable of ContentsTable of Contents: - Preface - Acknowledgments - List of figures and tables - List of contributors Part I Islamic Exegesis and Tradition: Formative and Classical Period - “A Plaything for Kings”: ʿĀʾisha’s Ḥadīth, Ibn al-Zubayr, and Rebuilding the Kaʿba Gerald Hawting - Remnants of an Old Tafsīr Tradition? The Exegetical Accounts of ʿUrwa b. al-Zubayr Andreas Görke - Muqātil on Zayd and Zaynab: “The sunna of Allāh concerning those who passed away before” (Q 33:38) Gordon Nickel - Sabab/Asbāb al-Nuzūl as a Technical Term: Its Emergence and Application in the Islamic Sources Roberto Tottoli - Laylat al-Qadr as Sacred Time: Sacred Cosmology in Sunnī Kalām and Tafsīr Arnold Yasin Mol - Is there Covenant Theology in Islam? Tariq Jaffer Part II The Qurʾān and Qurʾanic Studies: Issues and Themes - The Qurʾān’s Enchantment of the World. “Antique” Narratives Refashioned in Arab Late Antiquity Angelika Neuwirth - Messianism and the Shadow of History: Judaism and Islam in a Time of Uncertainty Aaron W. Hughes - Some Reflections on Borrowing, Influence, and the Entwining of Jewish and Islamic Traditions; or, What the Image of a Calf Might Do Michael E. Pregill - Inheriting Egypt: The Israelites and the Exodus in the Meccan Qurʾān Nicolai Sinai - Re-examining Textual Boundaries: Towards a Form-Critical Sūrat al-Kahf Marianna Klar - Philology and the Meaning of Sūrat al-Burūj Bruce Fudge - A Flawed Prophet? Noah in the Qurʾān and Qurʾanic Commentary Gabriel S. Reynolds Part III Islam, Qurʾān, and Tafsīr: Modern Discussions - An Asiatic and Moslem Jesus: Deracinating and Reracinating Jesus by Drew Ali Herbert Berg - Reading the Qurʾān Chronologically: An Aid to Discourse Coherence and Thematic Development Peter G. Riddell - The Fig, the Olive, and the Cycles of Prophethood: Q 95:1–3 and the Image of History in Early 20th-Century Qurʾanic Exegesis Johanna Pink - The “Scientific Miracle of the Qurʾān”: Map and Assessment Stefano Bigliardi - Locating the “Esoteric” in Islamic Studies Feras Hamza - Western Non-Muslim Qurʾanic Studies in Muslim Academic Contexts: On Rippin’s Works from the Middle East to the Malay-Indonesian World Majid Daneshgar - A Concluding Appreciation Jane McAuliffe - Andrew Rippin : La Sainte Sagesse et Le Saint Silence (Ἁγία Σοφία, Ἁγία σιγή) Claude Gilliot - Appendix: Publications by Andrew Rippin - Index

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Book SynopsisThe manuscript of the Aqwāl Qatāda has repeatedly attracted particular interest among modern scholars, as it raises questions concerning the early development of the Ibāḍī Basran community and the emergence of Islamic jurisprudence in Iraq. It is a unique document because it attests to the existence of a scholarly link between Sunnīs and Ibāḍīs during the early development of Islamic law. The fact that the legal responsa and traditions of Qatāda b. Diʿāma al-Sadūsī (60/680-117/735) are part of an Ibāḍī collection, in which the traditions of Ibāḍī Imam Jābir b. Zayd (d. 93/ 711) have been transmitted through ʿAmr b. Harim and ʿAmr b. Dīnār, proves that the Ibāḍī lawyers of the first generations considered Qatāda to be a faithful upholder of Jābir's doctrine. Given the lack of material available for Jābir, instructions must have been given to collect whatever was transmitted through Qatāda. Qatāda's legal responsa must have corresponded to those of the first Ibāḍī authorities, which explains why the collator of the Aqwāl Qatāda (probably Abū Ghānim al-Khurāsānī) included them in an Ibāḍī manuscript. The present volume sheds light on the relationship between the Aqwāl Qatāda and Ibāḍī authorities such as al-Rabī, Abū Ubayda, and Jābir.Trade Review"This book is a major contribution to the debate over the early Islamic legal literature whose very nature makes any inquire a task of considerable difficulty." Ersilia Francesca in: Studi Magrebini 18.1 (2020)Table of ContentsIntroduction Arabic Texts a. Part One b. Part Two c. Part Three d. Part Four e. Part Five f. Part Six g. Part Seven Indices

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Book SynopsisTheology and Society is the most comprehensive study of Islamic intellectual and religious history, focusing on Muslim theology. With its emphasis on the eighth and ninth centuries CE, it remains the most detailed prosopographical study of the early phase of the formation of Islam. Originally published in German between 1991 and 1995, Theology and Society is a monument of scholarship and a unique scholarly enterprise which has stood the test of time as an unparalleled reference work.Table of ContentsThe Unification of Islamic Thought and the Flowering of Theology 1 Baghdad  1.1 Local Tradition. Madāʾin  1.2 Religious Policy Under al-Manṣūr and al-Mahdī  1.3 The Rise of the Muʿtazila  1.4 The Time Following the Fall of the Barmakids 2 Divided Empire and Civil War  2.1 The Uprising of Abū l-Sarāyā  2.2 Ma‌ʾmūn and ʿAlī al-Riḍā  2.3 Theologians with Ties to al-Ma‌ʾmūn. Thumāma b. Ashras  2.4 The Anti-Caliphate of Ibrāhīm b. al-Mahdī  2.5 Ma‌ʾmūn’s Return to Baghdad 3 Al-Ma‌ʾmūn in Baghdad. The Flowering of Muʿtazilite Theology  3.1 Ma‌ʾmūn’s Intellectual Profile. Intellectual Life at Court in Baghdad  3.2 The Great Muʿtazilite Systematists  3.3 The miḥna Supplementary Remarks

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Book SynopsisThe Universal Science (ʿIlm-i kullī) by Mahdī Ḥāʾirī Yazdī, is a concise, but authoritative, outline of the fundamental discussions in Islamic metaphysics. For many years used as a textbook in Iran, this short text offers English readers a readily accessible, lucid, and yet deeply learned, guide through the Sadrian, Avicennan, and Illuminationist schools of thought, whilst also demonstrating how the ‘living tradition’ of Shīʿī philosophy engages with central ontological, epistemological, aetiological, and psychological questions. Discussions include the primacy of existence; the proper classifications of quiddity; and the manifold properties of causality and causal explanation. This is the first of the various influential works authored by this leading Shīʿah intellectual to have been translated into English from the original Persian.Table of ContentsForeword Editor’s Introduction 1 Mahdī Ḥāʾirī Yazdī: A Philosophical Life 2 John Cooper: Oxford, Qum, and Cambridge 3 The Translation 4 ʿIlm-i kullī: Historical Context and Content Universal Science: An Introduction to Islamic Metaphysics Preface 1 Introduction 1 The Definition of Metaphysics 2 The Central Subject-Matter of Metaphysics 3 The Divisions of Philosophy 4 Metaphysics in the General Sense 2 Existence (wujūd)–Being (hastī) 1 The Meaning of Existence 2 That Which Makes Existence Known is Neither a Real Definition nor a Descriptive Definition 3 Which is Fundamentally Real: Existence or Quiddity? 4 The Definition of Quiddity 5 Arguments for the Fundamentality of Existence 6 The Concept of Existence 7 The Reality of Existence 8 Existence is in Addition to Quiddity 9 Truth (God, the Exalted) is Pure Existence 10 Mental Existence (or Existence in the Mind) 3 Mental Existence 1 The Enigma of Mental Existence 2 The Solution to the Enigma 3 The View of Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī 4 Unity of the Intellector and that Which is Intellected 4 Further Issues Relating to Existence 1 Existence is Absolute Good 2 Existence is a Singularly Unique Reality 3 Existence is Not Substance and is Not Accident 4 Existence is Not Compound 5 Absolute Existence and Determined Existence 6 The Secondary Intelligible 7 A Non-Existent is Not Anything 8 There is no Differentiation between Non-Existences, or any Causal Relationship 9 The Coming Back of What Has Become Non-Existent 10 History Does Not Repeat Itself 11 Making and Effecting 12 The Three Modes of Existence 5 Contingency (imkān) 1 General Contingency 2 Specific Contingency 3 Most Specific Contingency 4 Future Contingency 5 Pre-dispositional Contingency 6 Contingency of Occurrence 7 Contingency in the Sense of Likelihood 8 Indigent Contingency 9 Analogical Contingency 6 Priority and Posteriority 1 Coming-Into-Being and Eternity 2 The Divisions of Priority and Posteriority 7 Unity, Multiplicity, and Predication 1 Unity and Multiplicity 2 Divisions of the One [That is to say an investigation into how many ways things are said to be ‘one’] 3 Predication 4 Division of Predication 5 Multiplicity, Alterity, and Opposition 8 Quiddity 1 Quiddity and Its Necessary Parts 2 Quiddity in Itself is Neither Existent Nor Non-Existent 3 Mental Conceptions of Quiddity 4 The Natural Universal 5 Existence of the Natural Universal 9 Potentiality (quwwah) and Actuality ( fiʿl) 10 Cause (ʿillat) and Effect (maʿlūl) 1 Causality 2 The Divisions of the Efficient Cause 3 The Final Cause 4 Premature Death 5 The Formal Cause 6 The Material Cause 7 The Names for Matter 8 The Divisions of Matter 9 Things in Common between all the Causes 10 Some of the Properties of the Bodily Causes 11 Things in Common between the Cause and the Effect 12 A Discussion between Men of Wisdom 13 Vicious Circles and Infinite Regresses Appendix Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together studies that explore the richness of the Arabic literary tradition and of Islamic intellectual life, from the beginnings of Islam to the present. The contributors cover an unusually wide range of subjects, including such topics as guile in the Quran, marriage in Islamic law, early esoterica, commentaries on al-Ḥarīrī’s Maqamāt, Hellenistic philosophy in Arabic, medieval music and song, scurrilous poetry, Arabic rhetoric, cursing, the modern social and legal history of the Middle East, al-Kharrat’s modernist project, and contemporary Islamic thought and responses to it. The volume’s range reflects the enormous breadth of Everett Rowson’s scholarship and his impact over a lifetime of publishing, editing, teaching, and mentoring in the many fields that constitute the Arabic humanities and Islamic thought. Contributors: Ali Humayun Akhtar, Thomas Bauer, Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt, Kevin van Bladel, Marilyn Booth, Michael Cooperson, Kenneth M. Cuno, Geert Jan van Gelder, Hala Halim, Lara Harb, David Hollenberg, Matthew L. Keegan, David Larsen, Joseph E. Lowry, Zainab Mahmood, Jon McGinnis, Jeannie Miller, John Nawas, Bilal Orfali, Alex Popovkin, Dwight F. Reynolds, Susan A. Spectorsky, Tara Stephan, Adam Talib, Sarra Tlili, Shawkat M. Toorawa, James Toth, Mark S. Wagner.Trade Review"Enthralling and titillating, this is an impressive compilation of papers written in honor of Everett K. Rowson, covering a suprisingly vast number o fields, in perception heretic, challenging, and informative, positively adding to the extant literature." - Stavros Nikolaidis, in: Journal of Oriental and African Studies 27 (2018)Table of ContentsList of Contributors Editors’ Preface Tabula Gratulatoria Publications of Everett K. Rowson From Breath to Soul: The Quranic Word Rūḥ and its (Mis)interpretations Sarra Tlili The Wiles of Women, The Guile of Men: Re-reading Kayd in Sūrat Yūsuf Zainab Mahmood Some Ḥanbalī Views on Secret Marriage Susan A. Spectorsky Anta anā wa-anā minka (“You are me, and I am from you”): A Quasi-Nuṣayrī Fragment on the Intellect in the Early Ismāʿīlī Treatise Kitāb Taʾwīl ḥurūf al-muʿjam David Hollenberg The Crucified Speaks: ʿAlī ibn al-Jahm on his Day-Long Exposure at Nishapur David Larsen Man Is Not the Only Speaking Animal: Thresholds and Idiom in al-Jāḥiẓ Jeannie Miller Beyond the Known Limits: Ibn Dāwūd al-Iṣfahānī’s Chapter on “Intermedial” Poetry Lara Harb Foul Whisperings: Madness and Poetry in Arabic Literary History Geert Jan van Gelder Music for the Body, Music for the Soul Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt Zoroaster’s Many Languages Kevin van Bladel Song and Punishment Dwight F. Reynolds Fathers and Husbands Adam Talib Writing the Past: Ancient Egypt Through the Lens of Medieval Islamic Thought Tara Stephan ‘The Mosul Stand-up, or a Riff on a Stiff’: al-Hamadhānī’s Maqāma of Mosul Michael Cooperson An Edition of al-Hamadhānī’s al-Maqāma al-Mawṣiliyya Bilal Orfali Sucker of One’s Mother’s Clitoris: A Study of a Classical Arabic Insult John Nawas Commentators, Collators, and Copyists: Interpreting Manuscript Variation in the Exordium of al-Ḥarīrī’s Maqāmāt Matthew L. Keegan Going the Extra Mayl: Two Texts on Medieval Dynamics in the Islamic World Jon McGinnis “Extremely Beautiful and Extremely Long”: al-Qīrāṭī’s Exuberant Letter from the Year 761/1360 Thomas Bauer Enterprising Sultans and the Doge of Venice: Political Culture and the Patronage of Science and Philosophy in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean Ali Humayun Akhtar Contextualizing Muḥammad ʿAbduh’s Views on the Family, Marriage, and Divorce Kenneth M. Cuno “Go directly home with decorum”: Conduct Books for Egypt’s Young, ca. 1912 Marilyn Booth When Jews Attack: Toward a Social Psychology of Inter-Communal Violence in Yemen Mark S. Wagner Scope for Comparatism: Internationalist and Surrealist Resonances in Idwār al-Kharrāṭ’s Resistant Literary Modernity Hala Halim Securing Consent: Islamic Development and the Movement to Transform Egypt James Toth Index

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Book SynopsisThe Universal Science (ʿIlm-i kullī) by Mahdī Ḥāʾirī Yazdī, is a concise, but authoritative, outline of the fundamental discussions in Islamic metaphysics. For many years used as a textbook in Iran, this short text offers English readers a readily accessible, lucid, and yet deeply learned, guide through the Sadrian, Avicennan, and Illuminationist schools of thought, whilst also demonstrating how the ‘living tradition’ of Shīʿī philosophy engages with central ontological, epistemological, aetiological, and psychological questions. Discussions include the primacy of existence; the proper classifications of quiddity; and the manifold properties of causality and causal explanation. This is the first of the various influential works authored by this leading Shīʿah intellectual to have been translated into English from the original Persian.Table of ContentsForeword Editor’s Introduction 1 Mahdī Ḥāʾirī Yazdī: A Philosophical Life 2 John Cooper: Oxford, Qum, and Cambridge 3 The Translation 4 ʿIlm-i kullī: Historical Context and Content Universal Science: An Introduction to Islamic Metaphysics Preface 1 Introduction 1 The Definition of Metaphysics 2 The Central Subject-Matter of Metaphysics 3 The Divisions of Philosophy 4 Metaphysics in the General Sense 2 Existence (wujūd)–Being (hastī) 1 The Meaning of Existence 2 That Which Makes Existence Known is Neither a Real Definition nor a Descriptive Definition 3 Which is Fundamentally Real: Existence or Quiddity? 4 The Definition of Quiddity 5 Arguments for the Fundamentality of Existence 6 The Concept of Existence 7 The Reality of Existence 8 Existence is in Addition to Quiddity 9 Truth (God, the Exalted) is Pure Existence 10 Mental Existence (or Existence in the Mind) 3 Mental Existence 1 The Enigma of Mental Existence 2 The Solution to the Enigma 3 The View of Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī 4 Unity of the Intellector and that Which is Intellected 4 Further Issues Relating to Existence 1 Existence is Absolute Good 2 Existence is a Singularly Unique Reality 3 Existence is Not Substance and is Not Accident 4 Existence is Not Compound 5 Absolute Existence and Determined Existence 6 The Secondary Intelligible 7 A Non-Existent is Not Anything 8 There is no Differentiation between Non-Existences, or any Causal Relationship 9 The Coming Back of What Has Become Non-Existent 10 History Does Not Repeat Itself 11 Making and Effecting 12 The Three Modes of Existence 5 Contingency (imkān) 1 General Contingency 2 Specific Contingency 3 Most Specific Contingency 4 Future Contingency 5 Pre-dispositional Contingency 6 Contingency of Occurrence 7 Contingency in the Sense of Likelihood 8 Indigent Contingency 9 Analogical Contingency 6 Priority and Posteriority 1 Coming-Into-Being and Eternity 2 The Divisions of Priority and Posteriority 7 Unity, Multiplicity, and Predication 1 Unity and Multiplicity 2 Divisions of the One [That is to say an investigation into how many ways things are said to be ‘one’] 3 Predication 4 Division of Predication 5 Multiplicity, Alterity, and Opposition 8 Quiddity 1 Quiddity and Its Necessary Parts 2 Quiddity in Itself is Neither Existent Nor Non-Existent 3 Mental Conceptions of Quiddity 4 The Natural Universal 5 Existence of the Natural Universal 9 Potentiality (quwwah) and Actuality ( fiʿl) 10 Cause (ʿillat) and Effect (maʿlūl) 1 Causality 2 The Divisions of the Efficient Cause 3 The Final Cause 4 Premature Death 5 The Formal Cause 6 The Material Cause 7 The Names for Matter 8 The Divisions of Matter 9 Things in Common between all the Causes 10 Some of the Properties of the Bodily Causes 11 Things in Common between the Cause and the Effect 12 A Discussion between Men of Wisdom 13 Vicious Circles and Infinite Regresses Appendix Bibliography Index

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