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Book SynopsisThe Third Edition of Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Islam appears in 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 2021-6 of the Third Edition of Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Islam will contain 46 new articles, reflecting the great diversity of current scholarship in the fields of Islamic Studies.Table of ContentsArab deities Bozuklu Mustafa Paşa Certitude (in Ṣūfism) Cyprus architecture Dialectic in the religious sciences Al-Falâh Farīd, Muḥammad Free Officers, Egypt al-Ḥākim al-Jishumī Ḥālī Ḥashshānī, ʿAbd al-Qādir Hece Vezni/Parmak Hesabi Ibn ʿĀʾisha, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad Ibn ʿUnayn Illumination (art) Intuition (ḥads) Jālor al-Jārim, ʿAlī Junbish-i Sabz-i Īrān Juwaynī family Kalīla wa-Dimna illustrations Kapudan Paşa Kemal Reis Khurayyif, al-Bashīr Khvāfī Khān Kınalızade Ali Efendi al-Lādhiqī, Muḥammad Ladkar Māhān Mahdiyya (Tunisia) Maḥmūd Mudhahhib Mālik b. Nuwayra Maritsa, Battle of Masjid Negara Mawāliyā Mecdi, Mehmed al-Mughīriyya al-Mukhtār b. Abī ʿUbayd Multan art and architecture al-Muwayliḥī, Ibrāhīm al-Muwayliḥī, Muḥammad Nadhīr Aḥmad Nawawī al-Bantanī Nazif Ahmed, Mir Nuʿayma, Mīkhāʾīl Nuba

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Book SynopsisIn ‘They Love Us Because We Give Them’ Zakāt, Dauda Abubakar describes the practice of Zakāt in northern Nigeria. Those who practice this pillar of Islam annually deduct Zakāt from their wealth and distribute it to the poor and needy people within their vicinity, mostly their friends, relatives and neighbours. The practice of giving and receiving Zakāt in northern Nigeria often leads to the establishment of social relations between the rich and needy. Dauda Abubakar provides details of the social relationship in the people’s interpersonal dealings with one another that often lead to power relations, high table relations etc. The needy reciprocate the Zakāt they collect in many ways, respecting and given high positions to the rich in society.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Figures Abbreviations Arabic Transliteration Map of Nigerian states Map of Plateau State Map of Jos North local government and its localities Introduction  1 Theoretical Considerations  2 Components of Gift Exchange  3 The Obligation of Reciprocity  4 Different Dimensions of Gift Exchange  5 Gifts and Self-Presentation in Society  6 There Is No Free Gift in Jos  7 Methodology  8 Chapter Outlines 1 Zakāt and Various Forms of Giving  1 The Practice of zakāt in West Africa  2 Northern Nigeria and Jos  3 Jos  4 Islam in Jos  5 Economic Activity among the Hausa Muslims  6 Overview of the Practice of zakāt 2 Muslim Attitudes to Giving in Jos  1 Social and Religious Significance of Giving  2 Other Forms of Giving  3 Religious Significance of Giving  4 Perceptions of Gifts as Opposed to zakāt 3 Administration of Zakāt by Muslim Groups in Jos  1 Qādiriyya and Tijāniyya Sufi Orders  2 Izala’s Department of Zakāt and Waqf  3 Administration of zakāt by Muslim Yoruba Societies in Jos 4 Deductions of Zakāt in Jos  1 Individuals and zakāt Deduction  2 The Private Practice of zakāt  3 Who Deducts zakāt?  4 Factors Responsible for the Payment of zakāt  5 Nisāb and the Role of the Print Media  6 Process of zakāt Deductions 5 Distribution of Zakāt in Jos  1 Process of zakāt Distribution  2 Beneficiaries of zakāt  3 Gender Imbalance among zakāt Beneficiaries  4 Muslim Scholars and zakāt  5 Classification of zakāt Beneficiaries  6 The Challenges of New Interpretations of asnāf al-thamāniya 6 Zakāt and Social Relationships in Jos  1 Zakāt: Tool for Deepening Relationships  2 Zakāt and Social Bonds  3 Zakāt Distribution and Power Relations  4 Zakāt and Social Status  5 Group Loyalty  6 Dual Role of zakāt: Worship and Social Relationships Conclusion Appendix: List of Informants Glossary of Arabic and Hausa Words Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSaintly Spheres and Islamic Landscapes explores the creation, expansion, and perpetuation of the material and imaginary spheres of spiritual domination and sanctity that surrounded Sufi saints and became central to religious authority, Islamic piety, and the belief in the miraculous. The cultural and social constructs of Islamic sainthood and the spatial inscription of saintly figures have fascinated and ignited scholars across a range of disciplines. By bringing together a broad scope of perspectives and case studies, this book offers the reader the first comprehensive, albeit variegated, exposition of the evolution of saintly spheres and the emplacements of spiritual power in the Muslim world across time and place. Contributors: Angela Andersen, Irit Back, Devin DeWeese, Daphna Ephrat, Jo-Ann Gross, Nathan Hofer, Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, Sara Kuehn, Bulle Tuil Leonetti, Silvia Montenegro, Alexandre Papas, Paulo G. Pinto, Fatima Quraishi, Eric Ross, Itzchak Weismann, Pnina Werber, and Ethel Sara Wolper.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Maps A Note on Transliteration, Names, and Translation Introduction PART 1: Creation and Revitalization 1 The Creation of Spheres of Spiritual Domination and Sanctity in Medieval Syrian Landscapes: Hagiographical Narratives and Historical Legacies  Daphna Ephrat 2 The Creation and Institutionalization of the Sufi Landscape in Medieval Upper Egypt  Nathan Hofer 3 The Cult of Saints and Shrine Architecture: The Making of Funeral Centers of Devotion in the Medieval Muslim West  Bulle Tuil Leonetti 4 A Saint “On the Move”: Traces in the Evolution of a Landscape of Religious Memory in the Balkans  Sara Kuehn 5 The “Shrinescapes” and Narrative Traditions of Khoja Ishaq Khuttalani  Jo-Ann Gross 6 Encountering Saints in the Hallowed Ground of a Regional Landscape: The ‘Description of Khwārazm’ and the Experience of Pilgrimage in Nineteenth-Century Central Asia  Devin DeWeese PART 2: Spatial Formation and the Power of Place 7 Sufi Buildings and Networks of Authority in Medieval Anatolia  Ethel Sara Wolper 8 Situating Iraqi Shrine Cities within the Alevi-Bektashi Sacred Landscape: Networks of Saintly Families Linking Anatolia to Karbala and Najaf in the Ottoman Era  Ayfer Karakaya-Stump 9 “This is Makkah for Me!” Devotion in Architecture at the Makli Necropolis  Fatima Quraishi 10 “He who is the wondrous green dome is Ali”: The Relationship between Narratives of the Prophet Muhammad’s Ascension and the Communal Religious Architecture of the Alevis  Angela Andersen 11 Bombay Mystical City: Muslim Shrines and Saints in the Urban Fabric from 1800 to Present  Alexandre Papas 12 Senegal’s Sufi Cities: Places beyond the State  Eric Ross PART 3: Transformation and Globalization 13 Shifting Spheres along the Hajj Route from West Africa: The Case of the Tijaniyya during the Colonial Period  Irit Back 14 The Entire Land is My Lodge: Naqshbandi Responses to the Challenges of Modernity and Globalization  Itzchak Weismann 15 Charisma’s Reach: Spiritual Travel and Material Flows in a Sufi Saint’s Wilayat  Pnina Werbner 16 “Diasporizing” Sainthood: Shaykh Ahmed, a Syrian ʿAlawi Saint in Argentina  Silvia Montenegro 17 Territories of Memory: Ritual and Dreams in the Making of a Contemporary Syrian Saint  Paulo G. Pinto Index

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Book SynopsisThe Conclusive Argument of God is the master work of Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi (1762), considered to be the most important Muslim thinker of pre-modern South Asia. This work, originally written in Arabic, represents a synthesis of the Islamic intellectual disciplines authoritative in the 18th century. In order to argue for the rational, ethical, and spiritual basis for the implementation of the hadith injunctions of the Prophet Muhammad, Shāh Walī Allāh develops a cohesive schema of the metaphysical, psychological, and social knowledge of his time. This work provides an extensive and detailed picture of Muslim theology and interpretive strategies on the eve of the modern period and is still evoked by numerous contemporary Islamic movements.Trade Review'With this translation, one of the most important texts for the study of Islamic intellectual life in the 18th century Indian subcontinent is made available in a carefully prepared and well annotated translation.' Sabine Schmidtke, MESA Bulletin, 1997. 'Professor Marcia Hermansen has presented both an illuminating contribution to eighteenth-century Indo Muslim ṣūfī studies and a thoroughgoing analysis of a major figure from the period. Given the stiltedly idiosyncratic, complexly recondite nature of Shāh Walī Allāh's Arabic prose style, the translator succeeded remarkably well in rendering the next into easily readable English.' Leonard Lewisohn, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 2000.

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Book SynopsisThis volume looks at both Jesuit efforts to engage Muslim populations with Europe, such as the Moriscos, and the work of Jesuit missionaries and others in settings such as Constantinople. The activities of the Society of Jesus along the eastern frontier with the Ottoman Empire is detailed, as are the careers of individual Jesuits such as Tomás de León and Antonio Possevino who devoted much of their careers to responding to the claims of Islam and the pressures applied on Christian Europe by Muslim polities. Less well-known Jesuit personalities such as the translator Ignazio Lomellini are also profiled.

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Book SynopsisDialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia is a three-volume study of the Arabic dialects spoken in Bahrain by its older generation in the mid-1970s, and the socio-cultural factors that produced them. Volume 1: Glossary, published in 2001, lists all the dialectal vocabulary, with extensive contextual exemplification, and cross-referenced to other lexica, which occurred in the complete set of texts recorded during fieldwork. Volume 2: Ethnographic Texts presents a selection of these texts, transcribed, annotated and translated, and with detailed background essays, covering major aspects of the pre-oil culture of the Gulf and the initial stages of the transition to the modern era: pearl diving, agriculture, communal relations, marriage, childhood, domestic life, work. Excerpts from local dialect poems concerned with these subjects are also included. Volume 3: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Style is based on an extensive archive of recorded material, gathered for its ethnographic as well as its purely linguistic interest.Trade Review'...a major contribution to the lexicography of Spoken Arabic...' Heikki Palva, Studia Orientalia.

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Book SynopsisDialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia is a three-volume study of the Arabic dialects spoken in Bahrain by its older generation in the mid-1970s, and the socio-cultural factors that produced them. Volume 1: Glossary, published in 2001, lists all the dialectal vocabulary, with extensive contextual exemplification, and cross-referenced to other lexica, which occurred in the complete set of texts recorded during fieldwork. Volume 2: Ethnographic Texts presents a selection of these texts, transcribed, annotated and translated, and with detailed background essays, covering major aspects of the pre-oil culture of the Gulf and the initial stages of the transition to the modern era: pearl diving, agriculture, communal relations, marriage, childhood, domestic life, work. Excerpts from local dialect poems concerned with these subjects are also included. Volume 3: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Style is based on an extensive archive of recorded material, gathered for its ethnographic as well as its purely linguistic interest.Trade Review"The reviewed reviewed work is the culmination of Holes’s yearslong research on the communal dialects of Bahrain. The grammatical description, which together with the earlier two volumes makes up the series Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, is probably the only such extensive description of dialects in terms of historical significance. I can only hope that in the coming years researchers will begin new studies on dialects currently used in Bahrain. The last chapter is an excellent contribution, and Holes’s complete work will be an unparalleled source for comparative studies." - Maciej Klimiuk, in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 114/3 (2019)Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction vii Acknowledgements xi Volume III: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Style xiii Map 1 and Key xiv Map 2 and Key xv Abbreviations and Conventions xvi References xviii 1 Communities, Histories, and Dialects in Bahrain and the Wider Gulf 1 1.1 Communities 1 1.2 Historical Memory, Real and Imagined 6 1.3 Language History 10 1.4 Core and Periphery 32 1.5 Eastern Arabia and Central Asia 41 1.6 Summary and Conclusions 48 2 Phonology 50 2.1 Phoneme Inventory: Consonants 50 2.2 Phoneme Inventory: Vowels 65 2.3 The Syllable 69 2.4 Consonant Clusters 71 2.5 Stress 76 2.6 Phonotactics 76 3 Morphology (I) 81 3.1 Pronouns 81 3.2 Adverbs 100 3.3 Particles 103 3.4 Nouns 116 3.5 Adjectives 128 3.6 The Construct State 130 3.7 Nunation (tanwīn) 131 3.8 Numerals 134 4 Morphology (II) 138 4.1 Verb Patterns and Stems: Active Voice 138 4.2 The Internal (‘Apophonic’) Passive 166 4.3 Quadriliterals 168 4.4 Inflectional Morphology 184 4.5 The Strong Verb: Imperative 201 4.6 The Strong Verb: Participles 202 4.7 The Verbal Noun 204 4.8 The Geminate Verb 209 4.9 The Weak Verb 209 4.10 Irregular Verbs 211 5 Syntax 213 5.1 The Noun Phrase (NP) 213 5.2 The Verb Phrase (VP) 227 5.3 Agreement 326 5.4 Word Order 354 5.5 Clause Co-ordination 369 5.6 Subordinate Noun Clauses 374 5.7 Relative Clauses 387 5.8 Clauses of Reason 391 5.9 Clauses of Purpose and Result 393 5.10 Clauses of Comparison and Degree 397 5.11 Conditional and Time Clauses 402 6 Style in Spoken Discourse 434 6.1 Involving the Listener/ Interlocutor 435 6.2 Narrative Techniques 447 6.3 Dramatization 458 6.4 Affect 463 7 Some Trends in Dialectal Change Since the Mid-1970s 467 7.1 Sociolinguistic Studies of Bahrain of the 1970s 467 7.2 The Work of al-Qouz (2009) 469 7.3 Further Observations Post-1970s 474 Further addenda and corrigenda to Volume I 479

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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 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 ContentsAlgeria 1830-1962 Allāhvirdī Afshār Arānī, Taqī Arpad, Burhan Bābān Bājalān Bāqir al-Ṣadr, Muḥammad Çeyrekbaşı, Latife Bekir Chess Companions of the Prophet Congratulations, Turkish Customary law Customary law 2. The Kabyles Customary law 3. The Aḥaywat Bedouin Customary law 4. The Northeast Caucasus Customary law 5. The Qazaqs of Russian Central Asia (Syr Darya and Khwārazm) Customary law 6. The Meos of Mewat Customary law 7. The Minangkabau Defterdar Emine Semiye Epic Literature in Old Anatolian Turkish and Ottoman-Turkish Fecr-i Ātī al-Ḥabābī, Muḥammad ʿAzīz Ḥafṣid architecture Ḥasan Beg Rūmlū Ḥmād u-Mūsā Hu Dengzhou Ḥusaynid dynasty, women of the Ibn ʿAbbād al-Rundī Ibn ʿĀshir al-Anṣārī Ibn ʿAzzūz Ibn al-Biṭrῑq, Yaḥyā Ibn Makānis Ibn Zakrī al-Tilimsānī Ifni ʿImād al-Dīn al-Wāsiṭī Indonesia: textiles Khalaf al-Aḥmar Khālid al-Qaṣrī al-Kharrāṭ, Idwār Khaybar al-Khayzurān Kitmān Kulthūm b. ʿIyāḍ al-Qushayrī Maʿbad b. Khālid al-Juhanī al-Masʿadī, Maḥmūd al-Miklātī, Abū l-Ḥajjāj al-Miṣrī, Ibrāhīm Muḥammad Khudāyār Khān Muwashshaḥ al-Naḥḥās, Muṣṭafā Nasreddin Hoca Ozansoy, Halit Fahri

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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 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 ContentsAlmohad architecture Arho al-Bawāzīj Erbil Fakhr Farḥāt, Jirmānūs Ghiyāth al-Dīn Naqqāsh Hāshimīs of Mecca Hishām I Hishām II Hishām III Historiography, Arabic 1100-1500 Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī Ibn Isfandiyār Ibn al-Ṭiqṭaqā Ibn Zabāla Internet Italy, Islam in, premodern al-Kundurī Lamekani, Hüseyin Lucknow since 1856 al-Mahdī, Muḥammad Aḥmad Mahdiyya Mahremi Majd al-Dīn Hamgar al-Malik al-Afḍal b. Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Manṣūr bi-llāh Mehmed III al-Mufaḍḍal b. Salama (music) Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl Muradi Muradi, Seyyid Mūsā Sadā Suhāg Mūsā, Salāma al-Muṭarrifiyya al-Muṭarrizī al-Mutawakkil al-Laythī Nakhchivan al-Nasafī, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad Nāṣir-i Khusraw Nawal Kishore Netherlands, Islam and Muslims in the Nilüfer Hatun Noghay (language and literature) Nuṣratī Paul the Persian Pegon Public opinion in Iran Pulād Khān Qongrat Shuʿayb

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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 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 ContentsʿAnqāʾ, Shāh Maqṣūd Ṣādiq al-ʿAyyāshī, Abū Sālim Bakhtiyārī Bārzānī clan Farsakh Felek, Burhan Ghunaym, Fayḍ al-Dīn Ḥusayn Hacı Halil Paşa al-Ḥaddād, al-Ṭahir Ḥafṣa bt. al-Ḥājj Ḥāl in Ṣūfism Hamidi Hujvīrī, Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn Luʾluʾ Ibn Maḍāʾ Ibn Qays al-Ruqayyāt Ibn al-Sikkīt Ibn Simāk Ibn Sūda family Ibn Tūmart Intellect in Ṣūfism Itri, Buhurizade Mustafa Jaʿfar b. Ḥarb Jafar b. Mubashshir al-Jawād al-Iṣfahānī Kadınlar Halk Fırkası Kāshif al-Ghiṭāʾ, Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Kashshī Khabar al-wāḥid Khabbāb b. al-Aratt al-Khallāl, Abū Bakr al-Khansāʾ Khāṣṣakiyya Khiḍr Kutāma al-Maḥallī, Jalāl al-Dīn Malacca al-Marqab al-Māzinī, Abū ʿUthmān Melek Mehmed Paşa Metalwork Modon Mudéjares Mudéjar art and architecture Muḥammad b. Ḥabīb Muḥammad b. Ṭāhir al-Murtaḍā li-Dīn Allāh Najd until 1700 Najd since 1700 Qaṣīda (qəsidə) in Azerbaijani literature Serfaty, Abraham Transoxania al-Zarqāwī, Abū Muṣʿab

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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 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-Ghanī al-Maqdisī al-ʿAdl wa-l-Iḥsān ʿĀʾisha Taymūr al-ʿAlāʾī, Khalīl b. Kaykaldī Almoravid architecture al-Andalus, religious and rational sciences Bū Saʿīd Ceuta Credit, Ottoman Ḥamdūn al-Qaṣṣār al-Ḥarīrī, Rafīq Ibn al-Daybaʿ Ibn Mulayk Ibn Shuʿba al-Ḥarrānī al-Ibrāhīmī, Muḥammad al-Bashīr Inayat Khan Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq Jāwīsh, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Karājukī, Muḥammad b. ʿAlī Kātib/Kuttāb Kazakh khanate al-Khaṣṣāf, Abū Bakr Koron Lausanne, Treaty of Lewis, Samuel L. Liu Zhi Mahmud Nedim Paşa al-Majlisī, Muḥammad Bāqir Maʿn b. Zāʾida Manṣab and manṣabdār al-Manṣūr bi-llāh al-Qāsim b. ʿAlī al-ʿIyānī Martin, Rabia Mashrabiyya Maymūn b. Mihrān al-Mazātī Melilla al-Miʿmār, Ibrāhīm Muhammad, Elijah Mukhtār b. ʿAwf al-Azdī, Abū Ḥamza al-Mursī, Abū l-ʿAbbās Nagaur al-Nāṣir Ḥasan Nationalism and state formation South Asia Nazim al-Haqqani Nikopolis, battle of Nogai, people Nūrbakhsh, Muḥammad Nūrbakhshiyya Scientology and Islam

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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 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-Andalus, the memory of Āqā Khān Kirmānī Arrān Çeşmizade Mustafa Reşid Chāldirān, Battle of Copts 1800-present Dawsa Diqna, ʿUthmān al-Fusṭāṭ, art and architecture Ḥanṣāliyya Hilāl, Banū Ibn Khālawayh Ibn al-Mudabbir Ibn Zūlāq Inju dynasty al-Isfarāyīnī, Tāj al-Dīn al-Jabartī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jalāyirids al-Kawthar Khādim al-ḥaramayn Kisāʾī Marvazī Legal reform in Iran Literacy, Ottoman Empire and Turkey al-Madaniyya Mahmud I Malāmatiyya Manṣūr II b. Nūḥ II al-Marāghī, Muṣṭafā al-Mashriq, Journal Mawlidiyya Medina up to the Ottoman period Minting, Ottoman al-Munakhkhal al-Yashkurī al-Munir Muvahhit, Bedia Nājī, Ibrāhīm al-Nawba Niʿmatallāh Valī, Shāh Niẓāmī Ganjavī Ömer Hulusi Efendi (Gerdankiran) Press, Arabic al-Qalamāwī, Suhayr al-Timbuktāwī, Aḥmad b. al-Qāḍī

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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 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 Chishtī ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Āl Saʿūd Bihişti Ahmed Buşatlı Mustafa Paşa Civilisation discourse, in Arabic Corfu Croatia, Islam in Dāvar, ʿAlī-Akbar Elegy in Turkic literature Enver Paşa Fahd b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Faruqi, Ismail Hadım Mesih Mehmed Paşa Haraç Hāshimiyya Ḥusayn, Intiẓār Ibn Abī Khaythama Ibn Qūluwayh Ibn Zanjawayh Israel, Islam in ʿIyāḍ b. ʿAwāna Kanʿān Kazakhs, people Khālid Baghdādī Khaljīs Korah (Qārūn) Ma Yide Malta Manṣūr I b. Nūḥ Maronites al-Marzubānī Mehmed II Möngke b. Toluy Möngke-Temür Khān Muḥtasib al-Muqaddasī al-Musabbiḥī Muscat since 1500 Mustamlī Muẓaffarids Iran Muzāḥim al-ʿUqaylī Najadāt Naṣīr al-Dīn, Chirāgh-i Dihlī Nation of Islam Niẓām al-Dīn Awliyāʾ Nizār b. al-Mustanṣir Ögödei Peçevi, İbrahim Qāsimī dynasty

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Book SynopsisBetween Memory and Power intends to demonstrate that a robust culture of historical writing existed in 2nd/8th century Syria, and to offer new methodological approaches to access this now lost history, torn between memory and oblivion. By studying the making of Umayyad heroes or Abbasid origins-myths, this book aims to reveal the successive meanings granted to Syrian history, and to identify the various layers of historical writing and rewriting during the first centuries of Islam. Taken together, these elements make possible a history of meanings of the very space of Syria, articulated around power and its expression, which grants a clear coherence to the period, extending well beyond the dynastic caesura of 132/750.Table of ContentsPreface to the English Translation (2022) Acknowledgements to the French Edition (2011) Translator’s Note List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction 1 A Time of Writings and Rewritings: Writing History in the Syrian Space  1.1 Narrative Islamic Sources and the Question of Their Transmission  1.2 Writing History in the Syrian Space under the Late Umayyads and Early Abbasids 2 A Time of Writings and Rewritings: Historiographic Filters and Vulgates  2.1 In Search of Umayyad Historiographic Projects  2.2 Toward a Historiographic Vulgate: The History of Syria Rewritten in Abbasid Iraq 3 A Time of Writings and Rewritings: Sources on the Margins of the Historiographic Vulgate?  3.1 Islamic Sources on the Margins of the Vulgate?  3.2 Non-Muslim Sources: “External” or “Eastern” Sources? 4 The Second/Eight-Century Syrian Space: Between Memory and Oblivion  4.1 Memoria as an Object of Study  4.2 Umayyad Memoria  4.3 Spaces of Memory 5 The Creation of Umayyad Heroes Maslama B. ʿAbd Al-Malik, Combat Hero  5.1 The Siege of Constantinople: Military Failure, Narrative Success  5.2 From Hero of the Byzantine Frontier to Islamic Hero?  5.3 Eschatology and the Creation of Heroes 6 The Creation of Umayyad Heroes: ʿUmar B. ʿAbd Al-ʿAziz, the “Holy” Caliph  6.1 ʿUmar II in the Islamic Tradition  6.2 ʿUmar II in the Christian Sources  6.3 Constructing the Image of the Pious Caliph: Stages and Conditions 7 Interpreting the Abbasid Revolution in the Syrian Space  7.1 The Abbasid Revolution: Medieval and Modern Vulgates  7.2 Syrian Memories of the Abbasid Revolution  7.3 ʿAbd Allāh B. ʿAlī and the Allure of a Syrian Abbasid Caliphate? 8 Exercising Power in the Syrian Space in the Second/Eighth Century: A History of Meanings  8.1 Patrimonialism and the Creation of a Caliphal Landscape  8.2 The Mobile Exercise of Power  8.3 Abbasid Reconfigurations Conclusion Sources Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe three-volume series titled The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam, is the first attempt to explore the dynamics of the representation of the Prophet Muhammad in the course of Muslim history until the present. This first collective volume outlines his figure in the early Islamic tradition, and its later transformations until recent times that were shaped by Prophet-centered piety and politics. A variety of case studies offers a unique overview of the interplay of Sunnī amd Shīʿī doctrines with literature and arts in the formation of his image. They trace the integrative and conflictual qualities of a “Prophetic culture”, in which the Prophet of Islam continues his presence among the Muslim believers. Contributors Hiba Abid, Nelly Amri, Caterina Bori, Francesco Chiabotti, Rachida Chih, Adrien de Jarmy, Daniel De Smet, Mohamed Thami El Harrak, Brigitte Foulon, Denis Gril, Christiane Gruber, Tobias Heinzelmann, David Jordan, Pierre Lory, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Samuela Pagani, Alexandre Papas, Michele Petrone, Stefan Reichmuth, Meryem Sebti, Dilek Sarmis, Matthieu Terrier, Jean-Jacques Thibon, Marc Toutant, Ruggiero Vimercati Sanseverino.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors The Presence of the Prophet: General Introduction  Rachida Chih, David Jordan and Stefan Reichmuth The Prophet between Doctrine, Literature and Arts: Introduction to Volume I  Denis Gril, Stefan Reichmuth and Dilek Sarmis part 1: Images of the Prophet in Qurʾān, Ḥadīth, and Sīra/Maghāzī, and their Cultural Embedding 1 The Prophet in the Qurʾān An Attempt at a Synthesis  Denis Gril 2 Dating the Emergence of the Warrior-Prophet in Maghāzī Literature Second/Eighth to the Fourth/Tenth Century  Adrien de Jarmy 3 Ḥadīth Culture and Ibn Taymiyya’s Controversial Legacy in Early Fifteenth Century Damascus Ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Dimashqī and His al-Radd Al-Wāfir (d. 842/1438)  Caterina Bori 4 “There Is Matter for Thought” The Episode of the Night Journey and the Heavenly Ascension in the Sīra ḥalabiyya, at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century  Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen part 2: Towards a Theology of Devotion to the Prophet in Sunnī Islam 5 Theology of Veneration of the Prophet Muḥammad Doctrine and Love in the Shifāʾ of al-Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ (d. 544/1149)  Ruggero Vimercati Sanseverino 6 “Special Features of the Prophet” (Khaṣāʾiṣ nabawiyya) From Jurisprudence to Devotion  Michele Petrone 7 Modèle prophétique et modèle de sainteté dans le soufisme ancien Quelques exemples  Pierre Lory 8 L’éducation par « la lumière de la foi du Prophète » selon le shaykh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Dabbāgh (m. 1332/1719) D’après le Kitāb al-Ibrīz de Aḥmad b. al-Mubārak (m. 1156/1743)  Jean-Jacques Thibon part 3: The Prophet in Shīʿī Doctrine and in Islamic Philosophy 9 The Prophet Muḥammad in Imāmī Shīʿism Between History and Metaphysics  Mathieu Terrier 10 The Prophet Muḥammad and His Heir ʿAlī Their Historical, Metahistorical and Cosmological Roles in Ismāʿīlī Shīʿism  Daniel De Smet 11 La dimension éthique et politique de la révélation prophétique chez les falāsifa  Meryem Sebti part 4: The Splendour of Words: Exaltation of the Prophet in Islamic Literatures 12 “I Have Mandated It to Fly to You on the Wings of My Ardent Desire” Letter to the Prophet Written by Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khaṭīb (d. 776/1375) on Behalf of the Naṣrid Ruler of Granada  Nelly Amri 13 Les poèmes d’éloge du Prophète de Lisān al-Dīn Ibn al-Khāṭīb (713-776/1313-1374 ou 75)  Brigitte Foulon 14 Présence du Prophète dans l’art du panégyrique (madīḥ) et de l’audition spirituelle (samāʿ) Approche thématique  Mohamed Thami El Harrak 15 Timurid Accounts of Ascension (miʿrāj) in Türkī One Prophet, Two Models  Marc Toutant 16 Miʿrāciyye The Ascension of the Prophet in Ottoman Literature from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century  Alexandre Papas part 5: The Prophet in the Mirror of the Verbal, Scriptural and Pictorial Imagery: Aesthetics and Devotion 17 The Reality and Image of the Prophet according to the Theologian and Poet ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī  Samuela Pagani 18 The Prophet as a Sacred Spring: Late Ottoman Hilye Bottles  Christiane Gruber 19 Visualising the Prophet – Rhetorical and Graphic Aspects of Three Ottoman-Turkish Poems Süleymān Çelebi’s Vesīlet en-Necāt, Yazıcıoğlı’s Risāle-i Muḥammedīye, and Ḫāḳānī’s Ḥilye  Tobias Heinzelmann 20 The World of al-Qandūsī (d. 1278/1861) Prophetology and Calligraphy in Morocco During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century  Francesco Chiabotti and Hiba Abid Index

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Book SynopsisThis second collective volume of the series The Presence of the Prophet explores the growing importance of the figure of the Prophet Muhammad for questions of authority and power in early modern and modern times. The authors provide a rich collection of case studies on how Muhammad’s material, spiritual, and genealogical heritage has been claimed for the foundation of Muslim empires, revolutionary movements, the formation of modern nation states and ideologies, as well as for communal mobilization and social reform. This novel comparative, and diachronic study, which is unique for its wide coverage of regional cases and perspectives, reveals diverse political representations of the Prophet in an increasingly globalised struggle over the control of his image between secularization and sacralization. Contributors Gianfranco Bria, Rachida Chih, Christoph Günther, Gottfried Hagen, Jan-Peter Hartung, David Jordan, Soraya Khodamoradi, Jamal Malik, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Alix Philippon, Martin Riexinger, Stefan Reichmuth, Dilek Sarmis, Renaud Soler, Jaafar Ben El Haj Soulami, Florian Zemmin.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction  Rachida Chih, David Jordan, and Stefan Reichmuth Part 1: Empires and Revolutions 1 Pietas Ottomanica  The House of Osman and the Prophet Muḥammad  Gottfried Hagen 2 Model, Not Idol  The Recasting of the Image of Muḥammad in Mukhtaṣar sīrat al-rasūl by Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (d. 1792)  Martin Riexinger 3 The Prophet in a Muslim Age of Revolutions (ca. 1775–1850)  Stefan Reichmuth Part 2: Prophetic Descent and Authority 4 Mafhūm al-niqāba bayna al-tawjīh al-sharʿī wa-l-ṣayrūra al-tārīkhiyya fī l-Maghrib al-Aqṣā (The Concept of the Niqāba between Legal Norm and Historical Development in Morocco)  Jaafar Ben El Haj Soulami English Summary of Chapter 4  Stefan Reichmuth 5 Siyāda and Imamate in Eighteenth-Century India  The Ṭarīqa Muḥammadiyya Khāliṣa and the Sunnī–Shīʿī Sectarian Conflict  Soraya Khodamoradi 6 Vérification des généalogies (taḥqīq al-ansāb) et centralité égyptienne  Le Syndicat des descendants du Prophète (niqābat al-ashrāf) à l’époque contemporaine  Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen Part 3: Modern Nation-States and Ideologies 7 Le rôle du Prophète dans l’approche marxiste de l’histoire de Bandalī Jawzī (1871-1942)  Min tārīkh al-ḥarakāt al-fikriyya fī l-islām (De l’histoire des mouvements de pensée en islam)  Renaud Soler 8 The Place and Functions of the Figure of the Prophet in Turkish School Textbooks and General Religious Teaching  Citizenship Models and the Legitimisation of the State  Dilek Sarmis 9 The Prophet, His Mevlud, and the Building of the Albanian Nation-State  Gianfranco Bria 10 The Prophet, Law, and Constitution in Pakistani Society  Jamal Malik 11 “So Let Today Be All the Arabs Muḥammad”  The Prophet in the Discourse of the Iraqi Baʿth Party  David Jordan part 4: Mobilisation, Empowerment, and Social Reform 12 The Modern Prophet  Rashīd Riḍā’s Construction of Muḥammad as Religious and Social Reformer  Florian Zemmin 13 Religious Revival (tajdīd) and Politics in Contemporary Morocco  “The Prophetic Path” of Shaykh Abdessalam Yassine (d. 2012)  Rachida Chih 14 For the Love of Prophet Muḥammad  Religious Devotion and Political Mobilisation among the Barelwis of Pakistan  Alix Philippon 15 Taking Lessons from the Prophet in Times of War  Muḥammadan Images during the Afghan Resistance (ca. 1978–92)  Jan-Peter Hartung 16 al-Dawla al-nabawiyya  Appropriating the Prophet’s Authority in the Islamic State’s Media  Christoph Günther Index

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Book SynopsisThe Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr (Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra) by Ibn Saʿd (d. 230 A.H./845 C.E.) is the earliest extant biographical dictionary on the life of the Prophet and the early generations of Muslims. It is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This classic Brill edition was supervised by Eduard Sachau and was originally titled Biographien Muhammeds, seiner Gefährten und der späteren Träger des Islams bis zum Jahre 230 der Flucht. This edition was originally published between 1904 and 1940. Contributing editors Carl Brockelmann, Josef Horovitz, Julius Lippert, Bruno Meissner, Eugen Mittwoch, Friedrich Schwally, Karl Vilhelm Zetterstéen.

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Book SynopsisThe Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr (Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra) by Ibn Saʿd (d. 230 A.H./845 C.E.) is the earliest extant biographical dictionary on the life of the Prophet and the early generations of Muslims. It is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This classic Brill edition was supervised by Eduard Sachau and was originally titled Biographien Muhammeds, seiner Gefährten und der späteren Träger des Islams bis zum Jahre 230 der Flucht. This edition was originally published between 1904 and 1940. Contributing editors Carl Brockelmann, Josef Horovitz, Julius Lippert, Bruno Meissner, Eugen Mittwoch, Friedrich Schwally, Karl Vilhelm Zetterstéen.

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Book SynopsisThe Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr (Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra) by Ibn Saʿd (d. 230 A.H./845 C.E.) is the earliest extant biographical dictionary on the life of the Prophet and the early generations of Muslims. It is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This classic Brill edition was supervised by Eduard Sachau and was originally titled Biographien Muhammeds, seiner Gefährten und der späteren Träger des Islams bis zum Jahre 230 der Flucht. This edition was originally published between 1904 and 1940. Contributing editors Carl Brockelmann, Josef Horovitz, Julius Lippert, Bruno Meissner, Eugen Mittwoch, Friedrich Schwally, Karl Vilhelm Zetterstéen.

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Book SynopsisThe volume's unifying theme, inspired by the scholarly legacy of Professor Devin DeWeese, and indeed the subject of all the contributions, is the history of religion among the Muslim peoples of Inner and Central Asia, grounded in ignored or hitherto unknown indigenous sources. Individually, and as a whole, the articles pay tribute to DeWeese’s pathbreaking contributions to the disciplines of history and religious studies by exploring new approaches and new sources to build on this legacy. The volume pays particular attention to DeWeese's point d'appui: the centrality of Sufism in the region's religious, social, and literary history. The volume’s focus is thus twofold: to bring a new set of rich, largely unused materials into the scholarly domain among specialists on Central Asia, and to challenge historians of Islam to recognize that understanding the religious history of Central Asia, and Sufism in particular, is crucial in evaluating the Islamic world as a whole. Contributors: Peter B. Golden, Jürgen Paul, Ron Sela, Nicholas Walmsley, Jo-Ann Gross, Daniel Beben, Jeff Eden, Jamal Elias, Michael Kemper, Paolo Sartori, Eren Tasar, Stéphane A. Dudoignon, Allen J. Frank

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Book SynopsisThe Sound Traditions: Studies in Ismaili Texts and Thought is a collection of Ismail K. Poonawala’s articles on Ismaili studies. Divided into three sections, the volume consists of nineteen articles that have been published over a long period of more than forty years. Part One focuses on Ismaili sources and the question of their authorship. The aspects of Ismaili rational discourses are examined in Part Two. Focusing on the scriptural knowledge of Ismaili tradition, Part Three then delves into investigating al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān’s life and contribution. This volume is an excellent gateway to the study of origins and development of Ismaili thought.Table of ContentsForeword Preface part 1: Ismaʿili Sources and Authorship 1 Ismaʿili Sources for the History of South-West Arabia 2 Ismaʿili Manuscripts from Yemen 3 Anonymous Works and Their Ascription to Famous Authors: Are They Cases of Mistaken Identity or an Outright Forgery? 4 The Contribution of Ismaʿili Colophons to the Discussion on the Birth and Construction of the Arabic Manuscript Tradition 5 Discovery of the Kitāb al-asrār Ascribed to the First Fatimid Caliph-Imam al-Mahdī: Its Ramifications part 2: Ismaʿili Rational Discourses (al-maʿqūlāt) 6 Why We Need an Arabic Critical Edition with an Annotated English Translation of the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ 7 Wealth and Poverty in the Qur’an and Traditions of the Prophet, and How Those Concepts are Reflected in the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ 8 Humanism in Ismaʿili Thought: The Case of the Rasāʾil ikhwān al-ṣafāʾ (The Epistles of the Sincere Brethren and Faithful Friends) 9 An Early Doctrinal Controversy in the Iranian School of Ismaʿili Thought and Its Implications 10 An Ismaʿili Treatise on the Iʿjāz al-Qurʾān 11 Al-Sijistānī and His Kitāb al-Maqālīd al-Malakūtiyya part 3: Al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān and Ismaʿili Transmitted Knowledge (al-manqūlāt) 12 Al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān’s Works and the Sources 13 A Reconsideration of al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān’s Madhhab 14 The Chronology of al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān’s Works 15 Sources for al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān’s Works and Their Authenticity 16 The Beginning of the Ismaʿili Daʿwa and the Establishment of the Fatimid Dynasty as Commemorated by al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān 17 Al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān and Ismaʿili Jurisprudence 18 The Evolution of al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān’s Theory of Ismaʿili Jurisprudence as Reflected in the Chronology of His Works on Jurisprudence 19 Al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān and His Refutation of Ibn Qutayba Copyright Acknowledgments Bibliography Index of Qurʾanic References General Index

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Book SynopsisChristian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 20 (CMR 20), covering Iran, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia in the period 1800-1914, is a further volume in a general history of relations between the two faiths from the 7th century to the early 20th century. It comprises a series of introductory essays and the main body of detailed entries. These treat all the works, surviving or lost, that have been recorded. They 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 new and leading scholars, CMR 20, along with the other volumes in this series, is intended as a fundamental tool for research in Christian-Muslim relations. Section Editors: Ines Aščerić-Todd, Clinton Bennett, Luis F. Bernabé Pons, Jaco Beyers, Emanuele Colombo, Lejla Demiri, Martha Frederiks, David D. Grafton, Stanisław Grodź, Alan Guenther, Vincenzo Lavenia, Arely Medina, Diego Melo Carrasco, Alain Messaoudi, Gordon Nickel, Claire Norton, Reza Pourjavady, Douglas Pratt, Charles Ramsey, Peter Riddell, Umar Ryad, Cornelia Soldat, Charles Tieszen, Carsten Walbiner, Catherina Wenzel.Table of ContentsContents Foreword List of Illustrations and Map Abbreviations Essays Reza Pourjavady and John Chesworth, Introduction: Iran, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia in the 19th century Reza Pourjavady, Russo-Iranian wars 1804-13 and 1826-8 Jonathan L. Lee, Christians of Afghanistan under the Mughals and Durrānī monarchy, 1700-1901 Matthew Shannon, Christian missionaries and the foundation of modern schools in Iran between the 1830s and 1910s Iran and Afghanistan Āqā Muḥammad ʿAlī Bihbahānī Reza Pourjavady Mīrzā Ibrāhīm Shīrāzī Reza Pourjavady Ḥājj ʿAlī Akbar Navvāb Shīrāzī Alberto Tiburcio Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn ibn Muḥammad Heidar Eyvazi Henry Martyn Scott Ayler and Reza Pourjavady Fatḥ-ʿAlī Shah Mehdi Mousavi Mullā ʿAlī-Akbar Izhihī Iṣfahānī Leila Chamankhah Mīrzā Muḥammad Akhbārī Majid Montazer Mahdi Mullā Aḥmad Narāqī Hamed Naji Esfahani Mullā ʿAlī Nūrī Dennis Halft Mir Muḥammad Ḥusayn Khātūnābādī Rasul Jafarian Mīrzā Abū l-Qāsim Qummī S. Yaser Mirdamadi Ḥusayn ʿAlī-Shāh Iṣfahānī Reza Tabandeh Mīrzā Ṣāliḥ Shīrāzī Sara Faridzadeh Mīrzā ʿĪsā Qāʾim-Maqām Farahānī Ghazaleh Faridzadeh Mullā Muḥammad Riḍā Hamadānī Eliza Tasbihi Alexander Kazembeg Hadi Jorati Muḥammad Shah Qajar Mehdi Mousavi Muḥammad Karīm Khān Kirmānī Denis Hermann Mīrzā Najaf ʿAlī Khān Dānish Tabrīzī Fatima Tofighi Mīrzā Malkum Khān Urs Gösken Āqā Najafī Iṣfahānī Amin Ehteshami Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn Marʿashī Shahrastānī Heidar Eyvazi ʿAbbās-Qulī Khān Sipihr Kāshānī Mohammad Ghafoori Muḥammad Taqī Kāshānī Hossein Kamaly Nāṣir al-Dīn Shah Qajar Mehdi Mousavi Muḥammad Khān Kirmānī Denis Hermann Mīrzā Āqā Khān Kirmānī Roman Seidel William St Clair Tisdall Adam Simnowitz and Gordon Nickel Iran’s first Constitution and the Supplement to it Saeid Edalatnejad Muḥammad ʿAlī Dāʿī l-Islām Heidar Eyvazi Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn Khān Kirmānī Denis Hermann Mīrzā Muḥammad Ṣādiq Fakhr al-Islām Mansour Motamedi Church Missionary Society – Persian Mission John Chesworth Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia Mik‘ayēl Ch‘amch‘eants‘ Seta B. Dadoyan Joseph Emin James Harry Morris Yovhannēs Karnec‘i S. Peter Cowe T‘eimuraz Bagrationi Darejan Menabde Giorgi Avalishvili Nana Gonjilashvili Ioane Batonishvili Oktai Kazumov Aleksandre Chavchavadze Zoia Tskhadaia Gēorg Axverdyan S. Peter Cowe Daniel Chonkadze Tamar Tsitsishvili Mgrdič‘ Bešigt‘ašlian S. Peter Cowe Mirzə Fətəli Axundzadə Leila Rahimi Bahmany Grigol Orbeliani Ada Nemsadze Akaki Tsereteli Manana Kvataia Ełia Dēmirč‘ibašian S. Peter Cowe Vazha-Pshavela Tamar Sharabidze Ilia Chavchavadze Maia Ninidze Mir Möhsün Nəvvab Leila Rahimi Bahmany Siamant‘ō S. Peter Cowe Məmməd Səid Ordubadi Leila Rahimi Bahmany Contributors Index of Names Index of Titles

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Book SynopsisArabs and Arabists contains nineteen selected articles by Alastair Hamilton on the Western acquisition of knowledge of the Arab and Ottoman world in the early modern period. The first essays are on Arabs who visited Europe and gave instruction to Western Arabists, and on Europeans who either visited the Arab (or the Ottoman) world in search of manuscripts and information or who, like Franciscus Raphelengius, Isaac Casaubon and Adriaen Reland, studied it at a distance and remained in the West. These are followed by a section on the actual study of the Arabic language in Europe, and above all the creation of the first Arabic-Latin dictionaries, and another on the European study of Islam and Western translations of the Qur’an.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Abbreviations Part 1: Arabs and Arabists 1 An Egyptian Traveller in the Republic of Letters  Josephus Barbatus or Abudacnus the Copt 2 Michel d’Asquier, Imperial Interpreter and Bibliophile 3 Isaac Casaubon the Arabist  ‘Video Longum Esse Iter’  1 The Apprentice  2 The Method  3 The Centre of a Circle  4 The Arabist  5 Conclusion 4 ‘To Divest the East of All Its Manuscripts and All Its Rarities’  The Unfortunate Embassy of Henri Gournay de Marcheville 5 From East to West  Jansenists, Orientalists, and the Eucharistic Controversy  1 The Embassy in Istanbul  2 Protestant Reactions  3 Eastern Beliefs  4 Conclusion 6 Adrianus Relandus (1676–1718)  Outstanding Orientalist 7 Arabists and Cartesians at Utrecht 8 Pilgrims, Missionaries, and Scholars  Western Descriptions of the Monastery of St Paul from the Late Fourteenth Century to the Early Twentieth Century  1 Prosperity to Destitution  2 Revival and Restoration  3 Continuity and Change  4 Scholarly Investigation 9 The Metamorphoses of Georg August Wallin Part 2: Arabic Studies 10 Arabic Studies in Europe  1 The Motives  2 The Grammars  3 The Dictionaries  4 The Schools 11 The Victims of Progress  The Raphelengius Arabic Type and Bedwell’s Arabic Lexicon 12 ‘Nam Tirones Sumus’  Franciscus Raphelengius’s Lexicon Arabico-Latinum (Leiden 1613)  1 Antwerp  2 Leiden  3 Publication  4 Raphelengius’s Arabic Manuscripts  Appendix: Raphelengius’s Arabic Manuscripts in the Leiden University Library 13 Franciscus Raphelengius  The Hebraist and His Manuscripts 14 Abraham Ecchellensis et son ‘Nomenclator Arabico-Latinus’  1 Introduction  2 Ecchellensis lexicologue  3 Les sources du ‘Nomenclator’  4 L’organisation du ‘Nomenclator’  5 Un vocabulaire chrétien  6 Le ‘Nomenclator’ et le Coran  7 Conclusion Part 3: Islam and the Qurʾan 15 The Study of Islam in Early Modern Europe  1 From the Islamic Conquests to the Reformation  2 Parallel Developments: the Protestant North  3 Parallel Developments: the Catholic South  4 Conclusion 16 A Lutheran Translator for the Qurʾan  A Late Seventeenth-Century Quest  1 The Turkish Defeat  2 Competing Translators  3 The Key to Success 17 ‘To Rescue the Honour of the Germans’  Qurʾan Translations by Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century German Protestants 18 The Qurʾan as Chrestomathy in Early Modern Europe 19 After Marracci  The Reception of Ludovico Marracci’s Edition of the Qurʾan in Northern Europe from the Late Seventeenth to the Early Nineteenth Century Index

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, a microhistorical approach is employed to provide a transcription, translation, and case-study of the proceedings (written in Latin, Italian and Arabic) of the Roman Inquisition on Malta’s 1605 trial of the ‘Moorish’ slave Sellem Bin al-Sheikh Mansur, who was accused and found guilty of practising magic and teaching it to the local Christians. Through both a detailed commentary and individual case-studies, it assesses what these proceedings reflect about religion, society, and politics both on Malta and more widely across the Mediterranean in the early 17th century. In so doing, this inter- and multi-disciplinary project speaks to a wide range of subjects, including magic, Christian-Muslim relations, slavery, Maltese social history, Mediterranean history, and the Roman Inquisition. It will be of interest to both students and researchers who study any of these subjects, and will help demonstrate the richness and potential of the documents in the Maltese archives. With contributions by: Joan Abela, Dionisius A. Agius, Paul Auchterlonie, Jonathan Barry, Charles Burnett, Frans Ciappara, Pierre Lory, Alex Malett, Ian Netton, Catherine R. Rider, Liana SaifTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations and Figures Abbreviations Arabic Transliteration System Notes on Contributors Introduction  Alex Mallett, Dionisius A. Agius and Catherine Rider Part 1 1 The Trial of Sellem bin al-Sheikh Mansur before the Roman Inquisition on Malta, 1605: Transcription and Translation  Alex Mallett and Catherine Rider Part 2 2 The Trial of Sellem: A Microhistorical Commentary  Alex Mallett and Catherine Rider Part 3 3 Sellem Bin al-Sheikh Mansur: A Muslim Magician in Catholic Malta  Joan Abela 4 The Cognitive Landscape of Seventeenth-Century Malta: Communicating Information in a Cosmopolitan Society  Dionisius A. Agius 5 The Maltese Inquisition: Expectations and Evidence in the Sellem Case  Jonathan Barry 6 The Witch and the Judge: Sellem before the Roman Inquisition, 1605  Frans Ciappara 7 An Anthropology of Confessional Practice Regarding Magic in Early Seventeenth-Century Malta: Liminality, Communitas, Exclusion  Ian R. Netton Part 4 8 Magic and Divination Lost in Translation: A Cairene in a Maltese Inquisition  Liana Saif 9 Geomancy, Divination, and Islam  Pierre Lory 10 Learned and Common Magic in the Trial of Sellem  Catherine Rider 11 Measurement and Magic: Some Notes on the Texts on Measurement in the Inquisition Documents against Sellem the Moor  Charles Burnett 12 Magic in Ottoman North Africa, 1570–1700, as seen through European Eyes  Paul Auchterlonie Part 5 13 Concluding Remarks  Alex Mallett, Catherine Rider and Dionisius A. Agius Appendix 1: Evidence Presented to the Inquisition by Vittorio Cassar: Instructions for Mathematics and the Practise of Geomancy  Alex Mallett and Catherine Rider Appendix 2: Tabula Sybillum  Alex Mallett and Catherine Rider Index

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Book SynopsisThe chapter about idol worship in Maqrīzī’s Universal History includes excerpts from books that are no longer extant. They make it harder to argue against the import or even the very existence of pre-Islamic idol worship.Table of ContentsPreface List of Plates Abbreviations Introduction  1 Idols in Conversion Reports  2 Mecca  3 Medina (Yaṯrib) (§ 110–117)  4 Idols and Treasuries Notes on the Edition and the Translation Plates Abbreviations and Symbols Critical Edition and Translation of al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar, vol. IV, Section 2: The Idols of the Arabs Section on the Idols of the Arabs [Their aṣnām and awṯān]  Wadd  Suwāʿ  Yaġūṯ  Yaʿūq  Nasr  Hubal  Isāf and Nāʾilah  Saʿd  ʿĀʾim  Ḏū l-Šará  Ruḍā  Ḍamār  Al-Ḥarīš, Ṣaḫr, Šams, al-Bihām, al-Qayn, Šafr, al-Ḥibs, Ġayyān, Isāf, Samūl, Ḥusā, al-Ṭimm, al-Samḥ  Sāf, al-Dībāǧ, al-Zabr  Huzzam  Manāf  Dawār  Al-Fals  Nuhm  Al-Suʿayr  Al-Uqayṣir  Al-ʿUrayf  Al-Ḥalāl  Aḥmas  ʿAmm Anas  Al-Šurayr, Ġanm, Ḏū l-Kaffayni  Al-Šāriq  Marsūġ  Al-Bayḍāʾ  Kulāl  Al-Ḫamīs  Al-Mukaymin  Yalīl  Barkulān  Qurs  Al-ʿAbd  Al-Ǧuṯā  Farrāḍ  Zaʿbal  Al-Ǧalsad  Ḥumām  ʿAwḍ  Saqb Section on al-ǧibt and al-ṭāġūt  Al-ʿUzzá  Allāt  Manāt  Ḏū l-Kaʿabāt  Ḏū l-Ḫalaṣah  The Kaʿbah of Naǧrān  Riyām  Al-Qalīs/al-Qullays  Al-Huǧam  The account of Ḏāt Anwāṭ  Anṣāb  Ruḍā  Buss  Fire Temple  Al-Saʿīdah Bibliography List of Quoted Manuscripts Index of Qurʾānic Verses Index of Verses of Poetry Index of Prophetic Traditions Index of Names (People and Places) Index of Technical Terms Index of Quoted Titles in al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar Index of Sources in al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar Index of Glosses Facsimile of MS Fatih 4339 (Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi), Fols. 30a–48b

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Book SynopsisIn Ibn Taymiyya and the Attributes of God (orig. published in German, 2019), Farid Suleiman pieces together, on the basis of statements scattered unsystematically over numerous individual treatises, an overall picture of the methodological foundations of Ibn Taymiyya’s doctrine of the divine attributes. He then examines how Ibn Taymiyya applies these foundational principles as exemplified in his treatment of selected divine attributes. Throughout the book, Suleiman relates Ibn Taymiyya’s positions to the larger context of Islamic intellectual history. The book was awarded the Dissertation Prize 2019 by the Academy for Islam in Research and Society (AIWG) and the Classical Islamic Book Prize by Gorgias Press (2020).Table of ContentsAcknowledgements (to the English translation) Acknowledgements (of the original German version) List of Figures and Tables 1 Introduction  1 State of the Field  2 Objectives and Approach  3 Overview of the Works of Ibn Taymiyya Most Frequently Used in This Study Part 1 Ibn Taymiyya’s Biography and the History of the Divine Attributes in Islamic Thought before His Time 2 Ibn Taymiyya’s Biography 3 The Divine Attributes in Islamic Intellectual History up to the Time of Ibn Taymiyya  1 The Emergence of the Debate over the Divine Attributes in Early Islam  2 The Muʿtazila  3 The Falāsifa  4 Ahl al-Ḥadīth  5 The Ashʿarīs Part 2 The Methodological Foundations of Ibn Taymiyya’s Doctrine of the Divine Attributes 4 Ontological Foundations  1 The Term wujūd: Meaning and Gradations  2 Likeness (mithl, tamāthul) and Similarity (shibh, tashābuh, ishtibāh) among Existent Things  3 Ibn Taymiyya’s Ontological Conceptualism  4 Ibn Taymiyya’s Critique of the Doctrine of the Unity of Being (waḥdat al-wujūd) in Speculative Sufism 5 Linguistic Foundations  1 The ḥaqīqa–majāz Dichotomy  2 On the Semantic Relationship of Homonymous Expressions: Ibn Taymiyya’s Linguistic Counterproposal to the ḥaqīqa–majāz Dichotomy  3 What Are the Theological Consequences of Ibn Taymiyya’s Alternative to the ḥaqīqa–majāz Dichotomy? 6 Hermeneutical Foundations  1 Verse Q. 3:7—Ibn Taymiyya’s Understanding of the Terms muḥkam, mutashābih, and taʾwīl  2 Ibn Taymiyya’s Challenge to the Validity of Taʾwīl Majāzī: Attempting to Limit the Scope of Application of the Universal Rule (al-qānūn al-kullī)  3 The Two Principles and the Seven Basic Rules for Interpreting the Divine Attributes 7 Epistemological Foundations  1 On the Applicability of Qiyās in Theology  2 The Epistemic Value of Textual Indicants: Ibn Taymiyya in Debate with al-Rāzī 8 Summary Part 3 The Divine Essence and Attributes in Focus 9 Temporally Originating States and Acts (ḥawādith) in the Divine Essence 10 Case Studies of Selected Divine Attributes  1 al-ʿAdl: God’s Justice  2 al-Kalām: God’s Speech  3 al-Istiwāʾ: God’s Rising over His Throne  4 al-Maʿiyya: God’s “Withness” 11 Summary 12 Evaluation and Conclusion Bibliography Index of People and Subjects Index of Quranic Verses

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Book SynopsisL’auteur soutient que les confréries soufies, en s’opposant ou en bloquant les ambitions conservatrices de l’État, participent — entre autres instances sociales et institutions politiques de régulation —, à la consolidation et à l’amélioration de la démocratie et de la laïcité sénégalaises. The author argues that Sufi orders participate in the improvement and consolidation of democracy and secularism in Senegal. Often, in opposing or blocking the conservative ambitions of the state holders, several Sufi guides support the citizens and deepen democratic values in the country.Table of ContentsRemerciements Liste des photographies, tableaux et caricatures Abréviations, sigles et acronymes Notes de translittération Introduction générale Partie 1 Approches théorique, méthodologique et historique 1 Recontextualiser la démocratie, la laïcité, la domination, la violence et produire des savoirs sur les confréries sénégalaises  1 Compatibilité ou non de l’islam avec la démocratie : un débat stérile  2 Les laïcités en comparaison  3 De la théorie de la violence et de la domination  4 La production des savoirs sur les confréries sénégalaises : épistémè, auto-analyse et schèmes de construction de la réalité  5 Conclusion 2 Religions et politique dans l’histoire du Sénégal  1 Parti islamiste, animiste et laïque : vers un pluralisme religieux et politique  2 Le parti chrétien avant l’implantation des loges maçonniques  3 La tradition démocratique par l’élection et les partis politiques  4 Cas d’école d’un savant inspirateur de valeurs citoyennes : Sëriñ Cheikh Ahmed Tidiane Sy « Al-Maktūm »  5 Sur la nécessité de rompre avec les distinctions binaires  6 D’autres thèmes de recherche  7 Conclusion Partie 2 Marabouts et démocratie des communautés 3 La Tijāniyya et le premier régime d’alternance au Sénégal (2000-2012)  1 Aperçu des rapports entre religion et politique  2 De la violence symbolique légitime  3 Le discours politique d’un mouride devenu Président  4 Conclusion 4 Résistance au pouvoir politique : les marabouts et les jeunes  1 Stabiliser le champ politique par le champ religieux  2 Dispositions de jeunes : Rap, soufisme et engagement politique  3 Conclusion 5 Le deuxième régime d’alternance : continuité ou discontinuité avec la politique de Wade  1 Les intellos sénégalais et la critique politique  2 La religionalisation de l’affaire Khalifa Sall et l’arrivée d’un nouveau khalife  3 L’organisation des élections législatives du 30 juillet 2017 : logistique, violence et résultats  4 Débats de la loi sur le parrainage et le silence des marabouts  5 Idrissa Seck et la polémique Makka/Bakka  6 Conclusion Partie 3 Le rôle des confréries dans la stabilisation politique 6 L’élection présidentielle de 2019 : le PDS et BBY  1 Wade : apôtre de la violence ou tacticien politique  2 BBY, le candidat Sall et la campagne électorale  3 Vers la réélection de Sall : organisation et analyses  4 Conclusion 7 La laïcité à l’épreuve du temps : le PUR et Rewmi  1 La campagne du PUR  2 Le parti Rewmi durant la campagne électorale  3 Conclusion 8 La Coalition Madické 2019 et la Coalition Sonko Président : la question du vote confrérique, ethnique et après ?  1 La Coalition Madické 2019  2 La Coalition Sonko Président  3 Les entorses ethniques et confrériques à la démocratie  4 La société civile islamique et la défense de la démocratie  5 Conclusion Conclusion générale Interviews au Sénégal en 2010 et 2016 Conférences et Gàmmu de Sëriñ Cheikh Ahmed Tidiane Sy Presse sénégalaise : par ordre d’entrée dans chaque chapitre Webographie et vidéographie Filmographie Bibliographie Index

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Book SynopsisFollowing the traces first left by The Arabic Literature of Africa volume 3A published in 2003, this widely enlarged and precisely updated edition of that pioneering work aims at providing a full-fledged and meticulously detailed reference book on the literature produced and circulated by the Muslim communities of the Horn of Africa. This entirely revised version of ALA3A makes use of the absolutely fresh data discovered and collected by the editors from 2013 to 2018 the framework of the ERC-funded project Islam in the Horn of Africa: A Comparative Literary Approach and draws a new comprehensive picture of the textual production of the Islamic scholars of the Horn of Africa since its first attestations until the present time. Contributors Sara Fani, Alessandro Gori, Adday Hernández, John M. Larsen, Irmeli Perho and Michele Petrone.

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Book SynopsisThirty years after the fall of Soviet power, we are beginning to understand that the experience of Muslims in the USSR continued patterns of adaptation and negotiation known from Muslim history in the lands that became the Soviet Union, and in other regions as well; we can also now understand that the long history of Muslims situating religious authority locally, in the various regions that came under Soviet rule, in fact continued through the Soviet era into post-Soviet times. The present volume is intended to historicize the question of religious authority in Muslim Central Eurasia, through historical and anthropological case studies about the exercise, negotiation, or institutionalization of authority, from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century; it thus seeks to frame Islamic religious history in the areas shaped by Russian and Soviet rule in terms of issues relevant to Muslims themselves, as Muslims, rather than solely in terms of questions of colonial rule. Contributors are Sergei Abashin, Ulfat Abdurasulov, Bakhtiyar Babajanov, Devin DeWeese, Allen J. Frank, Benjamin Gatling, Agnès Kefeli, Paolo Sartori, Wendell Schwab, Pavel Shabley, Shamil Shikhaliev, and William A. Wood.

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Book SynopsisIn A Christian-Muslim Comparative Theology of Saints: The Community of God’s Friends, Hans A. Harmakaputra focuses on a question that emerges from today’s multi-faith context: “Is it possible for Christians to recognize non-Christians as saints?” To answer affirmatively, he offers a Christian perspective on an inclusive theology of saints through the lens of comparative theology that is based on the thought of Catholic, Protestant, and Muslim theologians: Karl Rahner, Jean-Luc Marion, Elizabeth Johnson, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Paul Tillich, and Ibn Arabī’. As a result of this interreligious comparison, three theological constructs emerge: (1) saints as manifestations and revealers of God’s self-communication, (2) the hiddenness of saints, and (3) saints as companions. These theological constructs redefine and reconfigure Christian understanding of saints on one hand, and on the other hand provide theological reasoning to include non-Christians in the Christian notion of the communion of saints.Trade Review“The Community of God’s Friends is an intriguing book not least because of its stated goals, chief among which is an attempt to “enrich” Christian understanding regarding the “communion of saints” by exploring ideas from “across” the religious and denominational divide, but also for its organic style of unpacking the issues involved. Harmakaputra is firmly grounded in the Protestant tradition and here he masterfully facilitates a conversation between perspectives from his own tradition and those from the Roman Catholic and Muslim traditions. By applying the comparative theology lens, the author is able to expand the scope of discourse to include interdisciplinary considerations. In other words, it will be useful for the specialist in religious studies and yet it also off ers ideas for engaging in interfaith dialogue for the general reader.” – Irfan A. Omar, Associate Professor Theology, Marquette University "Dr. Harmakaputra’s work of comparative theology offers an inclusive theology of saints grounded in the thought of Catholic, Protestant, and Muslim theologians. His scholarship is truly impressive, displaying a great familiarity with and a masterful grasp of Catholic and Protestant theology of sainthood and Islamic theology of prophethood, especially in the Sunni and Sufi traditions. I strongly recommend this book for courses on interreligious dialogue and to those interested in a comparative understanding of Christian and Muslim concepts of sainthood and prophethood." – Peter C. Phan, The Igancio Ellacuria, S.J. Chair of Catholic Social Thought, Georgetown University "The inclusive theology of saints developed by Hans Harmakaputra with the help of Catholic, Protestant, and Muslim sources is comparative theology at its best: it offers an impressive solution for an important problem of contemporary systematic theology with considerable practical effects, it offers a convincing and understandable way of reception of non-Christian sources, and it develops a thought-provoking, stimulating systematic idea in a wide ecumenical horizon.“ – Klaus Von Stosch, Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Bonn.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction  1 Why Saints?  2 Reconfiguring Saints and Sainthood: The Quest for an Inclusive Christian Theology of the Saints  3 Disciplinary Framework: Comparative Systematic Theology  4 Limits of the Study  5 Structure 1 Contemporary Catholic Discourse on Theology of Saints  1 Canonization, Intercessory Roles, and Moral Exemplars:Three Features of the Saints in Catholic Teaching  2 Saints as Tangible Manifestations of God’s Grace in History:Karl Rahner’s Theology of Saints  3 Remembering the Saints as Friends of God and Prophets:Elizabeth Johnson’s Feminist Perspective on the Saints  4 The Invisibility of the Saint According to Jean-Luc Marion 2 Contemporary Protestant Discourse on Theology of Saints  1 Protestant Reformers’ Criticism of the Veneration of Saints  2 Contemporary Protestant Churches’ Approach to Saints  3 Contemporary Theological Approaches to a Theology of Saints   3.1 A Worldly Saint: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and His Thoughts on Sainthood   3.2 Saints as Embodiments of Ultimate Reality: Paul Tillich and His Notion of Saintliness and Sanctification 3 Friends of God and Sainthood in Islam: An Introduction  1 Clarification of the Key Terms Related to Sainthood  2 Signs of Awliya Allah: A Phenomenological Approach to Muslim Saints   2.1 Reductionist and Relativistic Approaches to Sainthood   2.2 Approaching Sainthood as a Tradition in Islam   2.3 Miraculous Deeds as the Signs of a Wali: The Case of Abdurrahman Wahid  3 Friends of God in the Qur’an and Hadith: A Textual Approach  4 Formulation of Sainthood in the Early Period of Sufism:A Theological Approach   4.1 Al-Junayd: Saints as Models for Believers   4.2 Hakim al-Tirmidhi: Sainthood and the Seal of the Saints 4 Friends of God and Sainthood According to IBN ‘Arabi  1 Clarification of Ibn ?Arabi’s Key Concepts   1.1 Oneness of Being   1.2 The Human and the Perfect Human   1.3 The “God Created in Beliefs”  2 The Realm of the Walaya   2.1 The Relationship of Sainthood to Prophethood and Messengerhood   2.2 The Universality of Walaya  3 The Saints as the Heirs of the Prophets  4 The “Hiddenness” of Saints 5 Saints as Manifestations and Revealers of God’s Self-Communication  1 The Universality of God’s Self-Communication   1.1 Grace as the Self-Communication of God   1.2 Anonymous Christians   1.3 From Anonymous Christians to Saints  2 The Particularity of God’s Self-Communication   2.1 The Role of Jesus Christ in God’s Universal Self-Communication   2.2 Hidden Saints as Many Mediations  3 Towards the Recognition of Hidden Saints   3.1 Hidden Saints as the Mystics of Everyday Life   3.2 Universal Paths for Realizing God’s Grace   3.3 Saints as Revealers of New Modes of God’s Grace 6 The Hiddenness of Saints  1 Banality and Holiness: Sanctity as Liminal Space   1.1 “He Who Eats Food and Walks in the Markets”: Saints in the World   1.2 Worldly Saints: Sanctification as the Journey in the Liminal Space  2 “Only a Saint Can Recognize Another Saint”: A Phenomenology of Sainthood   2.1 “The One Who Blames Oneself”: The Malamiyya According to Ibn ?Arabi   2.2 Hiddenness as a Mark of Sainthood  3 “He Who Sees You Sees Me”: The Transparency and Mediating Role of a Saint   3.1 Friends of God as Mediations between God and Human Beings   3.2 Saints as Icons of the Invisible God 7 Saints as Companions  1 Reinvigorating the Communion of Saints: The Significance of the Companionship Paradigm   1.1 The Paradigm of Companionship and Its Significance   1.2 The Seal of the Muhammadan Saints and the Problem of Hierarchy  2 Expanding the Boundaries of the Communion of Saints   2.1 Friends of God and Cloud of Witnesses as Primary Metaphors of the Companionship Paradigm   2.2 Reconfiguring the Concept of Intermediation of the Saints  3 Following in the Footsteps of the Friends of God   3.1 The Intersections of Memory, Hope, and Praxis   3.2 Multiple Paths of Holiness   3.3 Encountering the Hidden Christ through Praxis 8 Approaching Saints: An Inclusive Christian Theology of Saints in Practice  1 An Inclusive Christian Theology of Saints: Three Theological Constructs  2 The Vox Populi Approach to Sainthood: Weaving Remembrance and Imitation   2.1 The Vox Populi and the Catholic Canonization of Saints   2.2 Protestantism and the Vox Populi Approach to the Communion of Saints  3 Recognizing Saints Interreligiously: Two Case Studies   3.1 Frans van der Lugt, SJ   3.2 Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur)   3.3 Encountering the Hidden Christ through Praxis  4 Redefining Sainthood: Saints as “Sign-Events”  5 Remembering Gives Rise to Practice Conclusion  1 Three Theological Constructs  2 Types of Learning in Comparative Theology  3 Further Directions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation, Carl Sharif El-Tobgui offers a comprehensive analysis of Ibn Taymiyya’s ten-volume magnum opus, Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wa-l-naql (Refutation of the conflict of reason and revelation), elucidating its author’s foundational reconstitution of rationality through the multifaceted ontological, epistemological, and linguistic reforms he carries out.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Mise en Scène Introduction  1 Contours of a Conflict  2 Why the Darʾ taʿāruḍ?  3 About This Work Part 1 Reason vs. Revelation? 1 Reason and Revelation in Islam before Ibn Taymiyya  1 Reason and Revelation, Reason in Revelation  2 The Early Emergence of Rationalist and Textualist Tendencies: The Case of the Law  3 Early Theological Reflection and Contention  4 The Muʿtazila  5 Non-speculative Theology and the Legacy of Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal  6 The Miḥna and Its Aftermath  7 Nascent Ashʿarī Thought and the Early Kalām  8 Philosophy  9 The New Kalām and Subsequent Developments  10 Kalām and Falsafa in the Wake of al-Ghazālī 2 Ibn Taymiyya: Life, Times, and Intellectual Profile  1 The Life and Times of Ibn Taymiyya (661–728/1263–1328)  2 Intellectual Profile  3 Character and Contemporary Reception  4 Ibn Taymiyya’s Works  5 The Historiography of the Darʾ taʿāruḍ: Ibn Taymiyya’s Assessment of the Intellectual Legacy He Inherited  6 The Darʾ taʿāruḍ in Context: Ibn Taymiyya’s View of Previous Attempts to Solve the Conundrum of Reason and Revelation 3 On the Incoherence of the Universal Rule and the Theoretical Impossibility of a Contradiction between Reason and Revelation  1 Ibn Taymiyya on the Universal Rule and the Variety of Responses It Has Elicited  2 The Result of Figurative Interpretation (taʾwīl)  3 Specious Rationality and Its Discontents: Reason in a Cul-de-Sac  4 Ibn Taymiyya’s Project: Refuting the Universal Rule  5 On Reason Grounding Our Knowledge of Revelation  6 Knowledge vs. Conjecture: Conclusiveness Is What Counts  7 Not “Scriptural vs. Rational” but “Scripturally Validated vs. Innovated”  8 Further Arguments Regarding the Rational Contradictoriness of the Universal Rule  9 On the Universal Rule’s Incompatibility with the Status and Authority of Scripture Part 2 Ibn Taymiyya’s Reform of Language, Ontology, and Epistemology 4 Ṣaḥīḥ al-Manqūl, or What Is Revelation  1 Taʾwīl and the Meaning of Qurʾān 3:7  2 The Centrality of Context and Ibn Taymiyya’s “Contextual Taʾwīl”  3 The Salaf and the Authority of Their Linguistic Convention (ʿurf)  4 Analysis of Terms to Detect and Correct for Semantic Shift  5 A Case Study: The Terms wāḥid, tawḥīd, and tarkīb 5 Ṣarīḥ al-Maʿqūl, or What Is Reason?  1 What Exists? Ibn Taymiyya’s Account of Reality  2 How Do We Know What Exists? The Primary Sources of Knowledge  3 The Realm of the Mind: What Exists fī al-adhhān?  4 The Structure of Reason 6 Reason Reconstituted: The Divine Attributes and the Question of Contradiction between Reason and Revelation  1 Rational Inference and the Question of Qiyās al-ghāʾib ʿalā al-shāhid  2 Ibn Taymiyya’s Reforms Applied: The Question of the Divine Attributes  3 Concluding Reflections Appendix A: Summary Outline of the Darʾ taʿāruḍ Appendix B: Detailed Outline of the Darʾ taʿāruḍ Glossary of Arabic Terms Glossary of Proper Names Bibliography Index of Arabic Passages Index of Ḥadīth Index of People and Places Index of Qurʾānic Verses Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award (category: Arab Culture in Other Languages) Browse a preview of Arabic Oration: Art and Fuction. In Arabic Oration: Art and Function, a narrative richly infused with illustrative texts and original translations, Tahera Qutbuddin presents a comprehensive theory of this preeminent genre in its foundational oral period, 7th-8th centuries AD. With speeches and sermons attributed to the Prophet Muḥammad, ʿAlī, other political and military leaders, and a number of prominent women, she assesses types of orations and themes, preservation and provenance, structure and style, orator-audience authority dynamics, and, with the shift from an oral to a highly literate culture, oration’s influence on the medieval chancery epistle. Probing the genre’s echoes in the contemporary Muslim world, she offers sensitive tools with which to decode speeches by mosque-imams and political leaders today.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award (category: Arab Culture in Other Languages) "This erudite study is a major breakthrough in our understanding of Arabic oratory. Qutbuddin has painstakingly reconstructed this vast tradition in all its diverse guises and contexts, from the battlefield to the pulpit, from political to legislative speeches. She presents its complexities with lucid precision and scrupulous attention to detail—and it is a truly pioneering work for Qutbuddin’s discussion of women’s orations and her survey of contemporary sermons." - James Montgomery, Sir Thomas Adams Professor of Arabic, University of Cambridge “For a scholar of Western traditions of political thought, this book is a revelation. The Western canon also begins with oratory and with the ideas of the relation between public speech and politics that lay at the heart of Greek practice. To come to understand how the Arabic tradition thinks of language’s role in shaping communal and political life will significantly advance the capacity of scholars to engage with the political discourse of the Arabic speaking world. This project is of fundamental importance and should transform the capacity of the non-Islamic and Islamic worlds to communicate with each other about political subjects.” - Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor, Harvard, and Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics “Arabic Oration: Art and Function undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the Arabic oration, a prominent genre of Arabic literature that has roots in ancient Arab oral tradition. Tahera Qutbuddin presents a masterful survey of the genre, identifying the major sub-categories of the genre and analyzing their formal conventions, themes, rhetorical strategies, and aesthetics. Drawing on examples attributed to orators from the pre-Islamic period, key figures of the nascent Muslim community, and commanders, governors, and other prominent figures of early Islamic history, including women, she addresses the reception of orations and the important functions they served in political, social, and religious life. This ground-breaking work provides essential background for an understanding of Arabic literary history, early Islamic political history, and the history of the Arabic language.” - Devin J. Stewart, Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Emory University "Pious sermons, stirring battle speeches, chilling political rhetoric by stern governors, splendid literary artefacts: they are the subject of this magisterial book on Arabic oratory in which Tahera Qutbuddin deals with Arabic speeches as they have been recorded in the early centuries of Islam. Their stylistic and structural characteristics, their oral nature, their function, their influence even on present-day Friday sermons in Muslim countries, all this is expertly handled, as is the controversial matter of their authenticity. This book about an important but somewhat neglected genre is essential reading for all students of early Islam, its history and its literature." - Geert Jan van Gelder, Laudian Professor of Arabic Emeritus, University of Oxford "This study has meticulously unearthed the hitherto under-explored elements of an oral cultural heritage of immense value. It is a monumental contribution towards filling the lacuna in scholarly research about Arabic oration in the wider context of world culture, and indeed represents the first detailed investigation of the oldest verbal performances in the Arabic tradition before and after Islam. For those who are interested in the development of the discourse on orality and literacy, as well as audience-speaker interaction in the public sphere, Qutbuddin’s book is a truly indispensable resource." - Amidu Olalekan Sanni, Professor of African and Middle Eastern Studies, and Vice Chancellor, Fountain University, Osogbo, Nigeria in: Journal of Arabic Literature, Volume 52 Issue 3-4(2021), 425–436. "Qutbuddin’s work will stand as a definitive study of Arabic oration that will surely encourage future scholars to attend to the powerful words that once were uttered from Friday pulpits or from generals leading troops into battle." - Maurice Pomerantz, New York University Abu Dhabi in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, Volume 117 Issue 2 (2022). "Arabic Oration is a magisterial study of early Arabic oratory that is mainly aimed at specialists in the field of Arabic literature. Due to its comprehensive nature, it can serve as an important resource for scholars of early Islamic history. Thanks to the long quotations from primary texts translated into English, it provides much comparative material for scholars in other fields, such as orality, rhetoric, and communication studies. The close analyses of individual texts can also be used in the classroom context. I look forward to seeing the new interest in the study of early Arabic oratory that Qutbuddin’s Arabic Oration should spark." - Pamela Klasova, Macalester College, St Paul, USA in: Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā, Volume 30 (2022), 644-653.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Presentation Introduction 1 The Preservation of Orations Mnemonics-Based Oral Transmission, Supplementary Writing, and the Question of Authenticity 2 Structure of the Oration Contextualization of Conventional Components to Strengthen a Religio-Political Message 3 Style of the Oration The Aesthetics of Orality and Persuasion 4 Orators and Audience of the Oration Dynamics of Public Space, Authority, and Negotiation 5 The Sermon of Pious Counsel Human Mortality, a Life of Virtue, and Preparation for the Hereafter 6 The Friday and Eid Sermon Ritual and Piety, Politics and War 7 The Battle Oration Horses and Swords, Strategies and Ethics, Urgings and Prayers 8 The Political Speech Succession and Accession, Control and Policy 9 Additional Categories Legislative, Theological, Oracular, and Marriage Orations 10 Women’s Orations Kinship-Based Authority and Silence-Breaking Trauma 11 The Oration’s Influence on Arabic Prose Viewed in a Hybrid Oral-Written Continuum 12 The Influence of the Classical Arabic Oration on Contemporary Muslim Sermons and Speeches Appendix of Orations: References and Index Glossary 1: Early Arabic Orators Glossary 2: Arabic Literary Terms Bibliography General Index

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses hagiographical sources from Morocco taking in consideration the often-overlooked oral tradition. Orality, as is shown in this study, completes and enriches the vision of hagiography that written sources traditionally has offered. The most relevant example in this book is the high presence of female saints in oral narratives that were not included in any other written sources. Recovering oral tradition to study hagiography as well as the role of female saints in Morocco has been one of the main areas of focus in this study as well as problematizing the dependence and dialogue between written and oral culture and can help to understand the diffusion and presence of similar phenomena in other areas of Morocco.

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Book SynopsisNarrating the pilgrimage to Mecca discusses a wide variety of historical and contemporary personal accounts of the pilgrimage to Mecca, most of which presented in English for the first time. The book addresses how being situated in a specific cultural context and moment in history informs the meanings attributed to the pilgrimage experience. The various contributions reflect on how, in their stories, pilgrims draw on multiple cultural discourses and practices that shape their daily lifeworlds to convey the ways in which the pilgrimage to Mecca speaks to their senses and moves them emotionally. Together, the written memoirs and oral accounts discussed in the book offer unique insights in Islam’s rich and evolving tradition of hajj and ʿumra storytelling. Contributors Kholoud Al-Ajarma, Piotr Bachtin, Vladimir Bobrovnikov, Marjo Buitelaar, Nadia Caidi, Simon Coleman, Thomas Ecker, Zahir Janmohamed, Khadija Kadrouch-Outmany, Ammeke Kateman, Yahya Nurgat, Jihan Safar, Neda Saghaee, Leila Seurat, Richard van Leeuwen and Miguel Ángel Vázquez.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Notes on Transcriptions of Arabic and Other Terms Introduction. Narrativizing a Sensational Journey: Pilgrimage to Mecca  Marjo Buitelaar Part 1 Historical Accounts 1 Hajj Narratives as a Discursive Tradition  Richard van Leeuwen 2 ‘Coplas del peregrino de Puey Monçón’: A Sixteenth-Century Spanish Poem about the Hajj  Miguel Ángel Vázquez 3 Sufism and the Hajj: Symbolic Meanings and Transregional Networks; Two Examples from the 16th and 18th Centuries  Neda Saghaee and Richard van Leeuwen 4 Religious Emotion and Embodied Piety in the Ottoman Turkish Hajj Accounts of Evliyā Çelebī (1611–c. 1683) and Yūsuf Nābī (1642–1712)  Yahya Nurgat 5 Comparing Two Persian Hajj Travelogues: Yaʿqub Mirzā (1868) and Farhād Mirzā (1875/76)  Thomas Ecker 6 Othering and Being Othered: Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Hajj Accounts by Iranian Shiʿi Women (1880–1901)  Piotr Bachtin 7 Experiencing the Hajj in an Age of Change: Tuning the Emotions in Several Hajj Accounts of Pilgrims Travelling from Morocco and Egypt in the First Half of the Twentieth Century  Ammeke Kateman 8 Inconveniences of the Hajj: The Arduous Journey of a Moroccan Shaykh in 1929  Richard van Leeuwen 9 From Moscow to Mecca: Entangled Soviet Narratives of Pilgrimage in the Unlikely 1965 ḥajjnāme of Fazliddin Muhammadiev  Vladimir Bobrovnikov Part 2 Contemporary Accounts 10 Coming of Age in Mecca: Pilgrimage in the Life Stories of Two Young Adult Dutch Pilgrims  Marjo Buitelaar 11 ‘Beyond Words’: Moroccan Pilgrims’ Narrations about Their Ineffable Hajj Experiences through Stories about the Senses  Kholoud Al-Ajarma 12 Newlyweds and Other Young French Muslims Traveling to Mecca: Desires, Motivations and Senses of Belonging  Jihan Safar and Leila Seurat 13 Patience and Pilgrimage: Dutch Hajj Pilgrims’ Emergent and Maturing Stories about the Virtue of ṣabr  Marjo Buitelaar and Khadija Kadrouch-Outmany 14 Crowded Outlets: A North American Khoja Shiʿi Ithna Asheri Pilgrim’s Auto-ethnographic Memoir  Zahir Janmohamed 15 Curating Post-hajj Experiences of North American Pilgrims: Information Practices as Community-Building Rituals  Nadia Caidi 16 Mediating Mecca: Moroccan and Moroccan-Dutch Pilgrims’ Use of the Smartphone  Marjo Buitelaar and Kholoud Al-Ajarma Epilogue. Narrating Mecca: Between Sense and Presence  Simon Coleman Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers an account of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) as a rational theologian who created a symbiosis of philosophy and theology and infused rationality into Sufism. The majority of the papers herein deal with important topics of al-Ghazālī’s work, which demonstrate his rational treatment of the Qurʾān and major subjects of Islamic theology and everyday life of Muslims. Some other contributions address al-Ghazālī’s sources and how his intellectual endeavors were later received by scholars who had the same concern of reconciling religion and rationality within Islam, Christianity and Judaism. With contributions by Binyamin Abrahamov, Hans Daiber, Ken Garden, Avner Giladi, Scott Girdner, Frank Griffel, Steven Harvey, Alfred Ivry, Jules Janssens, Taneli Kukkonen, Luis Xavier López-Farjeat, Wilferd Madelung, Yahya M. Michot, Yasien Mohamed, Eric Ormsby, M. Sait Özervarlı, and Hidemi Takahashi.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Georges Tamer Introduction Hans Daiber God versus Causality: al-Ghazālī’s Solution and its Historical Background Wilferd Madelung Al-Ghazālī’s Changing Attitude to philosophy Binyamin Abrahamov Al-Ghazālī and the Rationalization of Sufism Georges Tamer Revelation, Sciences and Symbolism: Al-Ghazālī’s Jawāhir al-Qurʾān Frank Griffel Al-Ghazālī at His Most Rationalist: The Universal Rule for Allegorically Interpreting Revelation (al-Qānūn al-kullī fī t-taʾwīl) Eric Ormsby The Comedy of Reason: Strategies of Humour in al-Ghazālī Taneli Kukkonen Al-Ghazālī on the Emotions Avner Giladi Sex, Marriage and the Family in Al-Ghazālī’s Thought: Some Preliminary Notes Yasien Mohamed The Duties of the Teacher: al-Iṣfahānī’s Dharīʿa as a source of inspiration for al-Ghazālī’s Mīzān al-ʿamal Ken Garden Revisiting al-Ghazālī’s Crisis through his Scale for Action (Mizān al-ʿamal) Luis Xavier López-Farjeat Al-Ghazālī on Knowledge (‘ilm) and Certainty (yaqīn) in al-Munqidh min aḍ-ḍalāl and in al-Qisṭās al-mustaqīm Scott Girdner Ghazālī’s hermeneutics and their reception in Jewish Tradition: Mishkāt al-Anwār (The Niche of Lights) and Maimonides’ Shemonah Peraqim (Eight Chapters) Alfred Ivry Al-Ghazālī, Averroes and Moshe Narboni: Conflict and Conflation Steven Harvey The Changing Image of al-Ghazālī in Medieval Jewish Thought Hidemi Takahashi The Influence of al-Ghazālī on the Juridical, Theological and Philosophical Works of Barhebraeus Jules Janssens R. Marti and His References to al-Ghazālī Yahya M. Michot Al-Ghazālī’s Esotericism according to Ibn Taymiyya’s Bughyat al-Murtād M. Sait Özervarlı Arbitrating between al-Ghazālī and the Philosophers: The Tahāfut Commentaries in the Ottoman Intellectual Context Bibliography  

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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 SynopsisThis Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion contributes cases of encounters, diversities and distances to an emerging Jewish-Muslim Studies field. The scholarly essays address both discourses about and lived experiences of minorities in contemporary French, German and UK cities. The authors explore how particular modes of governance and secularism shape individual and collective identities while new technologies re-make interfaith encounters. This volume shows that Middle Eastern and North African pasts and presents weigh on European realities, examines how the pull of Jewish intellectual history is felt by a new generation of Muslim scholars and activists, and uncovers how Orthodox communities negotiate living side by side.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Jews and Muslims in Europe. Between Discourse and Experience   Ben Gidley and Samuel Sami Everett part 1 Jews and Muslims in Germany 1 Abrahamic Stranger Muslim German Intellectuals on Jewish German Intellecturals and Questions of Belonging   Elisabeth Becker and Ufuk Topkara 2 Desiring Memorials Jews, Muslims, and the Human of Citizenship   Sultan Doughan 3 The Politics of Hospitality Welcome and Not So Welcome Middle Easterners in Germany   Dani Kranz 4 Precarious Companionship Discourses of Adversity and Commonality in Jewish-Muslim Dialogue Initiatives in Germany   Alexander-Kenneth Nagel and Dekel Peretz part 2 Muslims and Jews in France 5 Learning the Language of the Other? Hebrew and Arabic in Two Parisian Associations   Samia Hathroubi 6 Between Meta-History and Memory Narrating the Jewish-Muslim Past in Morocco and Present in France   Nadia Malinovich 7 Constructing the Otherness of Jews and Muslims in France   Hanane Karimi 8 Jews and Muslims in Sarcelles Face to Face or Side by Side?   Nonna Mayer and Vincent Tiberj part 3 Jews and Muslims in the UK 9 The Avoidance of Love? Rubbing Shoulders in the Secular City   Ruth Sheldon 10 “This Is Just Where We Are in History” Jewish-Muslim Dialogue, Temporality, and Modalities of Solidarity   Yulia Egorova 11 Orthodox Fraternities and Contingent Equalities Muslims and Jews between Public (Health) Policy Discourse and Experience   Ben Kasstan 12 Locality, Spatiality and Contingency in East London An Interview with Michael Keith   Ben Gidley Index

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Book SynopsisDoing Justice to a Wronged Literature is a Festschrift for the Arabist and Islamicist Thomas Bauer. It includes 17 essays by established academics on various themes and aspects of Arabic literature and rhetoric of the Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman periods (12th-18th centuries). Notoriously neglected and maligned by earlier scholarship, Arabic literature and rhetoric of the 12th-18th centuries is an understudied area of Arabic studies that Thomas Bauer has over the last two decades succeeded in developing and promoting. A tribute to his pioneering work on this field, the contributions highlight the wealth, complexity and importance of Arabic literature and rhetoric of the said period by offering close readings of paradigmatic texts or examining specific topics and trends in larger corpora.Table of ContentsTabula Gratulatoria Publications of Thomas Bauer Introduction  Nefeli Papoutsakis and Hakan Özkan 1 Usāma b. Munqiḏ (488–584/1095–1188) und der ǧihād  Ewald Wagner 2 The Rhetorical Fabric of a Seventh/Thirteenth Century Sufi Poem by ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī  Ali Ahmad Hussein 3 “You have become the amīr of my heart”: An edition of the Faṣāḥat al-mashūq fī malāḥat al-maʿshūq or the Maqāma Iqṭāʿiyya of al-Shābb al-Ẓarīf al-Tilimsānī (d. 688/1289)  Bilal Orfali and Maurice Pomerantz 4 Die Kunst der zaǧal-Dichtung von Ibn Muqātil am Beispiel seines qalbī yuḥibb tayyāh  Hakan Özkan 5 Offizielle mamlukenzeitliche Schreiben und ihre Aussagekraft am Beispiel einer Frohbotschaft aus der Feder Ibn Nubātas  Andreas Herdt 6 Ein Hetärengespräch aus dem Kairo des 8./14. Jahrhunderts: Al-Miʿmār: Dīwān, Gedicht Nr. 540  Gregor Schoeler 7 Media in Flux: The Tale of the Yellow Folio from Kalīla and Dimna  Beatrice Gruendler 8 al-Ibdāʿ, a Tour de Force of Rhetoric: The History of an Arabic Rhetorical Term  Geert Jan van Gelder 9 Das Nilhochwasser von 761/1360 und Ibn Abī Ḥaǧalas as-Saǧʿ al-ǧalīl fī-mā ǧarā min an-Nīl  Werner Diem 10 Hidden Literary History—Ismaʿili Tradition in Syria  Verena Klemm 11 „Betrübte Weisen im Waldrevier“—Die Taube in Anthologien der Mamlukenzeit  Anke Osigus 12 The Magic of Books: The Narrative Function of Books in Arabic Popular Epic  Remke Kruk 13 Kontrast und Entsprechung—Ibn Ḥiǧǧa al-Ḥamawīs Umgang mit der rhetorischen Standardtheorie aus dem 8./14. Jahrhundert in seinem Kommentar zu seinem Stilmittelgedicht aus dem 9./15. Jahrhundert  Syrinx von Hees 14 ʿAbd ar-Raḥīm al-Buraʿī: Eine Spurensuche  Ines Weinrich 15 Orpheus zwischen Kāf und Nūn: Ein Ausflug in die arabische Unterwelt  Claudia Ott 16 Poetisch wider Willen: Der Koran im Vers Māmayhs—Über poetische Verfahren der Doppel- bzw. Mehrfachcodierung und des Code-Switching in iqtibās-Epigrammen  Alev Masarwa 17 Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Mullā’s (d. 1032/1623) Ḥalbat al-mufāḍala wa-ḥilyat al-munāḍala: The correspondence of an Ottoman-Era Aleppine Littérateur  Nefeli Papoutsakis Index

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Book SynopsisIn In Search of Identity: The Hadhrami Arabs in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia (1900-1950) Huub de Jonge discusses changes in social, economic, cultural and national identity of Arabs originating from Hadhramaut (Yemen) in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia. Within the relatively isolated and traditionally oriented Hadhrami community, all sorts of rifts and divisions arose under the influence of segregating colonial policies, the rise of Indonesian nationalism, the Japanese occupation, and the colonial war. The internal turmoil, hardly noticed by the outside world, led to the flourishing of new ideas, orientations, loyalties and ambitions, while traditional values, customs, and beliefs were called into question.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Introduction  1 Studies on Indonesian Hadhramis  2 Data Collection  3 Outline  4 Arabs and Hadhramis 1 Discord and Solidarity among the Arabs in the Netherlands East Indies, 1900–1942  1 The Arab Minority in the Netherlands East Indies  1 Identification with the Arab World  2 Discord between Sayyid and Syekh  3 The Title Fight  4 Integration in the Wider Society  5 Conclusion 2 Dutch Colonial Policy Pertaining to Hadhrami Immigrants  1 The Quarter and Pass Systems  2 Immigration Policy  3 Conclusion 3 Abdul Rahman Baswedan and the Emancipation of the Hadhramis in Indonesia  1 Growing Up in Ampel  2 Journalist and Politician  3 Totok and Peranakan  4 Persatoean Arab Indonesia  5 The Japanese Occupation  6 Independence  7 Conclusion 4 Aliran Baroe: A Mirror of Change within the Indo-Hadhrami Community  1 Persatoean Arab Indonesia (PAI) dan Aliran Baroe  2 A New Journal, a New Direction  3 Indo-Hadhrami Nationalism and Islam  4 Hadhramaut  5 Women’s Issues  6 Stories  7 Gado-gado  8 Conclusion 5 Fatimah: Arab-Indonesian Nationalism on Stage  1 Hoesin Bafagih  2 The Story Line  3 Contested Issues  4 Reception  5 Conclusion 6 Selective Accommodation: The Hadhramis in Indonesia during World War II and the Struggle for Independence  1 The Japanese Occupation  2 Revolutionary Years  3 Concluding Remarks 7 Contradictory and against the Grain: Snouck Hurgronje on the Hadhramis in the Dutch East Indies (1889–1936)  1 Countless Extortions and Useless Bantering  2 The Danger of Pan-Islamism  3 Incompatible Ends 8 Post-War Remittances from the Netherlands East Indies to Hadhramaut Selected Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis third collective volume of the series The Presence of the Prophet explores the expressions of piety and devotion to the person of the Prophet and their individual and collective significance in early modern and modern times. The authors provide a rich collection of regional case studies on how the Prophet’s presence and aura are individually and collectively evoked in dreams, visions, and prayers, in the performance of poetry in his praise, in the devotion to relics related to him, and in the celebration of his birthday. They also highlight the role of the Prophetic figure in the identity formation of young Muslims and cover the controversies and compromises which nowadays shape the devotional practices centered on the Prophet. Contributors Nelly Amri, Emma Aubin-Boltanski, Sana Chavoshian, Rachida Chih, Vincent Geisser, Denis Gril, Mohamed Amine Hamidoune, David Jordan, Hanan Karam, Kai Kresse, Jamal Malik,Youssef Nouiouar, Luca Patrizi, Thomas Pierret, Stefan Reichmuth, Youssouf T. Sangaré, Besnik Sinani, Fabio Vicini and Ines Weinrich.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction  Nelly Amri, Rachida Chih and Stefan Reichmuth Part 1: A Living and Close Mediator: Prayer and Chant 1 Assemblies for “Prayer on the Prophet” in the Maghrib  Wasīlat al-mutawassilīn, by Barakāt al-ʿArūsī (d. ca. 897/1492), and Its Legacy  Nelly Amri 2 La pratique de la “prière sur le Prophète” (taṣliya)  Modalité essentielle de la présence prophétique  Amine Hamidoune 3 The Creation of Muḥammad’s Qualities through Contemporary Chant in Syria and Lebanon  Ines Weinrich Part 2: Spirituality and Materiality of the Prophetic Presence 4 “Tu obtiendras ainsi le degré des Compagnons”  Voir le Prophète à l’état de veille  Denis Gril 5 In the Aura of the Prophet  Dreaming of Fāṭima and the Tropes of Connectedness in Iranian Women’s Pious Circles  Sana Chavoshian 6 Le dépôt sacré  Les reliques du prophète Muḥammad entre dévotion et fondation du pouvoir  Luca Patrizi Part 3: Identity-Building in the Mirror of the Prophet 7 Living the Sunna, Cultivating the Brotherhood  Following the Prophet Muḥammad in a Sufi-Inspired Reformist Community in Contemporary Turkey  Fabio Vicini 8 Pratiques et représentations du prophète Muhammad chez les jeunes musulmans français  La survivance d’un “modèle prophétique” ?  Vincent Geisser and Youssef Nouiouar 9 Socialisation and Individualisation in the Mirror of the Prophet among Young Muslims in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany)  Stefan Reichmuth and Hanan Karam Part 4: Celebrating the Prophet: Mawlid in Context 10 Mīlād al-Nabī in South Asia  Re-animating the Prophet  Jamal Malik 11 Maulidi Celebrations on the Northern Swahili Coast  Piety and Party: Levels and Layers of Ambivalence  Kai Kresse 12 The Reading of an Ibāḍī-Sufi Mawlid Text and Its Controversial Legacy in Oman  Abū Muslim al-Bahlānī’s (1860–1920) al-Nashʾa al-muḥammadiyya  David Jordan 13 A Mawlid al-Nabī under Close Surveillance  Beirut, November 2019  Emma Aubin-Boltanski Part 5: Defending the Veneration of the Prophet: ʿUlamāʾ and Preachers 14 Devotional Extremism (ghuluww)?  Muḥammad ʿAlawī al-Mālikī and the Debate over the Veneration (taʿẓīm) and the Characteristics (khaṣāʾiṣ) of the Prophet Muḥammad in Saudi Arabia  Besnik Sinani 15 Prophetic Rituals in Modern Syria  Defending the “Old Orthodoxy” with the ʿUlamāʾ in It  Thomas Pierret 16 Chérif Ousmane Madani Haïdara on the Obligation to Venerate the Prophet and His Family in Contemporary Mali (En Islam contemporain iv)  Youssouf T. Sangaré Index

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Book SynopsisIn Muslim al-Naysābūrī (d. 261/875). The skeptical traditionalist, Pavel Pavlovitch studies the life and works of Muslim b. al-Ḥajjāj al-Naysābūrī, the author of the famous collection of traditions (ḥadīth) al-Musnad al-ṣaḥīḥ (The Sound Collection), which Sunni Muslims rank as the third most authoritative source of legal and theological norms after the Qurʾān and Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī’s Ṣaḥīḥ. Based on multiple biographical sources and Muslim’s extant works, Pavel Pavlovitch studies hitherto unexplored aspects of Muslim’s biography, elaborates on his founding contribution to the science of ḥadīth criticism, and examines the transmission history of Muslim’s Ṣaḥīḥ in unprecedented detail. The monograph includes the first systematic study of Muslim’s traditionalist theology, which played a defining role in the formation of Sunni identity.Table of ContentsMotives and Acknowledgments List of Graphs, Diagrams, and Tables Conventions Introduction 1 The State of the Field and Method  1 Sources and Studies  2 Method  3 Technical Terminology  4 Determining the ḥadīth Transmitters’ Dates of Birth and Death  5 Determining the Distance between Centers of Learning 2 Iraq and Northeastern Iran in Muslim’s Lifetime: Politics and Intellectual Currents  1 The City of Naysābūr  2 The Miḥna  3 Political Factions  4 Theological Issues and Intellectual Trends 3 Life and Worldview  1 Shaykhs and Centers of Learning  2 Doctrinal Affiliation  3 Piety  4 Political Views 4 Muslim’s Theology  1 Muslim, al-Bukhārī, and the Perception of the Quran  2 Muslim and the Definition of Faith  3 Muslim and the Issue of qadar: Synergy between Divine Predestination and Human Agency  4 Conclusion 5 Muslim’s ḥadīth Criticism  1 The Delicate Art of Transmitter Evaluation  2 Muslim’s Criteria of ḥadīth Criticism  3 Muslim’s Vocabulary of ḥadīth Transmission and Evaluation  4 Conclusion 6 Muslim’s Works  1 Extant Works  2 Works That Are Preserved as Secondary Citations  3 Lost Works 7 The Ṣaḥīḥ  1 The Collection’s Title and Purpose of Composition: Muṣannaf, Musnad, and Ṣaḥīḥ  2 When Did Muslim Compose the Ṣaḥīḥ, and Was It Finished?  3 Is Muslim’s Ṣaḥīḥ an Appendix to al-Bukhārī’s Ṣaḥīḥ?  4 Contents and Structure of the Ṣaḥīḥ  5 Reception and Canonization 8 The Transmission of the Ṣaḥīḥ  1 The Transmission through Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Sufyān al-Naysābūrī  2 The Transmission through Abū Muḥammad Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan al-Qalānisī  3 The Transmission through Makkī b. ʿAbdān  4 The Transmission through Aḥmad b. al-Sharqī  5 Other Transmissions of the Ṣaḥīḥ  6 Manuscripts and Editions Conclusion Appendix 1: Isnād Diagrams Appendix 2: Muslim’s Informants according to al-Mizzī Appendix 3: Muslim’s Major Shaykhs according to Kitāb al-Zahra, Compared with an Electronic Count in al-Maktaba al-Shāmila and an Alternative Count by Dār al-Taʾṣīl Appendix 4: Transmitters on Muslim’s Authority Appendix 5: First/Seventh and Second/Eighth-Century Traditionists Who Made Transmitter-Critical Pronouncements according to Muslim’s Introduction Appendix 6: Reasons for Transmitter-Critical Pronouncements according to the Introduction to Muslim’s Ṣaḥīḥ Appendix 7: Muslim’s Kitāb al-Qadar Compared with al-Bukhārī’s Kitāb al-Qadar Appendix 8: The Number of Books in the Ṣaḥīḥ according to Ibn Manjuwayh, ʿAbd al-Bāqī (= Wensinck, al-Nawawī), and Dār al-Taʾṣīl (= al-Mizzī) Appendix 9: The Known Sections in Ibn ʿAsākir’s Division of the Ṣaḥīḥ Appendix 10: The Shaykhs of Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Zakariyyāʾ al-Nasawī Bibliography Index of Personal Names Index of Dynasties and Parties Index of Geographical Names Index of Titles of Pre-Modern books Index of Topics and Terms Quranic References

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Book SynopsisThe present volume is a pioneering collection of poetry by the outstanding Kenyan poet, intellectual and imam Ustadh Mahmmoud Mau (born 1952) from Lamu island, once an Indian Ocean hub, now on the edge of the nation state. By means of poetry in Arabic script, the poet raises his voice against social ills and injustices troubling his community on Lamu. The book situates Mahmoud Mau’s oeuvre within transoceanic exchanges of thoughts so characteristic of the Swahili coast.Table of ContentsForeword List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Annachiara Raia and Clarissa Vierke Part 1 Poetry as Intellectual Practice Ustadh Mahmoud Mau, Mtu wa watu (“A Man of the People”): Poet, Imam, and Engaged Local Intellectual  Kai Kresse and Kadara Swaleh Shaping and Being Shaped by Lamu Society: Ustadh Mau’s Poetry in the Context of Swahili Poetic Practice  Jasmin Mahazi “Born on the Island”: Situating Ustadh Mau’s Poetic Practice in Context  Clarissa Vierke Seeking ʿilm on Lamu: Ustadh Mau’s Library and Services for the Benefit of His Community  Annachiara Raia How Ought We to Live? The Ethical and the Poetic in Ustadh Mahmoud Mau’s Poetry  Clarissa Vierke Mabanati in Search of an Author: Portable Reform Texts and Multimodal Narrative Media among Swahili Muslim Communities  Annachiara Raia Part 2 Poems by Ustadh Mau Introduction to Part 2 Jamii: Topical Issues on Lamu  1 Amu (“Lamu”)  2 Bandari ina mawimbi (“The Port Makes Waves”)  3 Jahazi (“The Dhow”)  4 Tupijeni makamama (“Let Us Embrace”) Ilimu: The Importance of Education  1 Mwalimu (“Teacher”)  2 Kilio huliya mwenye (“Change Begins at Home”)  3 Kiswahili (“Swahili”)  4 Za Washirazi athari (“The Influence of the Persians”) Huruma: Social Roles and Responsibility  1 Mama msimlaumu (“Don’t Blame My Mother”)  2 Jilbabu (“Veil”)  3 Mchezo Wa Kuigiza (“Play”)  4 Haki za watoto (“Children’s Rights”)  5 Wasiya wa mabanati (“Advice to Young Women”) Matukio: Biographical Poems  1 Hafi asiye timiwa (“No One Dies Before His Time Is Up”)  2 Mlango “The Door” Maombi: Personal Poems of Supplication  1 Hapo zamani za yana (“Once Upon A Time”)  2 Tunda (“Fruit”)  3 Kipande cha ini (“Piece of My Liver”)  4 Mola zidisha baraka (“God Increase Your Blessings”)  5 Yasome na kukumbuka (“Read and Remember”) References of Part 2 Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume addresses the interplay of ḥadīth and ethics and contributes to examining the emerging field of ḥadīth-based ethics. The chapters cover four different sections: noble virtues (makārim al-akhlāq) and virtuous acts (faḍāʾil al-aʿmāl); concepts (adab, taḥbīb, ʿuzla); disciplines (ḥadīth transmission, gender ethics); and individual and key traditions (the ḥadīth of intention, consult your heart, key ḥadīths). The volume concludes with a chronologically ordered annotated bibliography of the key primary sources in the Islamic tradition with relevance to understanding the interplay of ḥadīth and ethics. This volume will be beneficial to researchers in the fields of Islamic ethics, ḥadīth studies, moral philosophy, scriptural ethics, religious ethics, and narrative ethics, in addition to Islamic and religious studies in general. Contributors Faqihuddin Abdul Kodir, Nuha Alshaar, Safwan Amir, Khairil Husaini Bin Jamil, Pieter Coppens, Chafik Graiguer, M. Imran Khan, Mutaz al-Khatib, Salahudheen Kozhithodi and Ali Altaf Mian. يتناول هذا الكتاب الصلة بين الحديث والأخلاق، الأمر الذي لم يحظ بالاهتمام في الدراسات المعاصرة حول الأخلاق الإسلامية. فهو يؤسس لفرع أخلاقي جديد اسمه «الأخلاق الحديثية» التي تشكل مع أخلاق القرآن ما يسمى «الأخلاق النصية». يغطي الكتاب جوانب نظرية وأخرى تطبيقية. فهو يبرز المضمون الأخلاقي الثري لمدونات الحديث، ويضم أربعة أقسام رئيسة هي: مكارم الأخلاق وفضائل الأعمال، ومفاهيم: الأدب والتحبيب والعزلة، كما يتناول الأبعاد الأخلاقية لرواية الحديث والجندر (النوع الاجتماعي)، بالإضافة إلى الأحاديث المفردة (كحديث إنما الأعمال بالنيات، وحديث استفتِ قلبك) والأحاديث الكلية التي تشكل أصول الحديث ومبادئه الكبرى. يحتوي الكتاب أيضًا على كشاف تحليليّ لأبرز مصنفات المحدثين في الأخلاق. من شأن هذا الكتاب أن يكون مرجعًا للطلاب والباحثين في المجالات الآتية: الأخلاق الإسلامية، والحديث النبوي، والفلسفة الأخلاقية، والأخلاق النصية، والأخلاق الدينية، وأخلاقيات السرد، بالإضافة إلى الدراسات الإسلامية والدينية بشكل عام. المساهمون شفيق اكّريكّر، وصفوان أمير، وخَيرئيل حسيني بن جميل، ومحمد عمران خان، ومعتز الخطيب، ونهى الشعار، وفقيه الدين عبد القدير، وپيتر كوپنس، وصلاح الدين كوزيتودي، وعلي ألطاف ميان.

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Book SynopsisThe Hand of Fatima traces the development and symbolism ascribed to the hand motif in the Arab and Islamic world, and beyond. Richly illustrated, it details the many types of khamsas produced historically and today – such as khamsas with swords, and khamsas with eagles – and the many objects on which khamsas appear, such as on amulets and flags. It traces the journey of the khamsa into the contemporary world of social and fine art, including museum highlights. Special sections are dedicated to the khamsa in Algeria; cultural crossover in Spain, Portugal, and Brazil; and the symbol of the hand in Shiʿism.

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Book SynopsisThe notion of adab is at the very heart of the Islamicate cultures. Born in the crucible of the Arabic and Persian civilisations of the Late Antiquity period, nourished by Greek, Syriac and Indian influences, this polysemic notion could cover a variegated range of meanings, ranging from good behaviour, good manners, etiquette, proper knowledge of the rules, to belles-lettres, and finally, literature. This volume addresses the notion of adab through four perspectives, which correspond to the four parts into which it is divided: “Origins”; “Transmissions”; “Metamorphosis” of the “Origins” and finally “Origins” through the lens of modernity.Table of ContentsContents Preface. A Project, a Conference, a Book List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction. L’adab, toujours recommencé “Origins”, Transmissions, Metamorphoses  Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen 2 From Education to Etiquette An Attempt to Reconstruct the Semantic “Enlargement” of the Term Adab  Luca Patrizi Part 1: Backgrounds and Foundations 3 Paideia et adab Quelques remarques préliminaires  Jakub Sypiański 4 De l’adab au musar La littérature philosophique hébraïque dans la formation de l’éthique juive au Moyen ge  Francesca Gorgoni Part 2: The “Origins” of Adab Introduction to Part 2  Francesca Bellino Section 1: Adab and the Formation of Literary Canons 5 Wine, Law and Irony al-Jāḥīẓ’s Kitāb al-shārib wa-l-mashrūb (On the Drinker and Drinks)  Ignacio Sánchez 6 Developing a Knowledge System Based on Adab Birds Fluttering from Ibn Qutayba’s Adab al-Kātib to the ʿUyūn al-Akhbār  Francesca Bellino 7 Adab al-imlāʾ wa-l-istimlāʾ d’Abū Saʿd ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Samʿānī (m. 562/1166) Refonder et canoniser la transmission du hadith au prisme de l’adab  Francesco Chiabotti Section 2: Adab, Power and Ethics 8 Adab in Early Wisdom Literature and the Role of Aristotle’s Letters to Alexander  Faustina Doufikar-Aerts 9 Deciphering Difference in Premodern Islamic Political Thought  Neguin Yavari 10 Règles d’adab et maîtrise des émotions Amour et colère en parallèle dans l’Islam médiéval  Monica Balda-Tillier Part 3: The Transmission of Adab: The Redefinition of Genres through the Centuries Introduction to Part 3  Francesca Bellino Section 1: Kalīla wa-Dimna: Back and Forth from India to the West 11 The Crow Who Aped the Partridge Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ’s Aesopian Language in a Fable of Kalīla wa-Dimna  István T. Kristó-Nagy 12 Homecoming: The Journey Back to India of Kalīla wa-Dimna  Thibaut d’Hubert Section 2: Evolution of Genres: The maqāmāt 13 Adab as Metamorphosis Text, Translation, and Commentary of the Mawṣiliyya of Hamadhānī  Bilal Orfali and Maurice Pomerantz 14 The Maqāma as a Romantic Novel? Shihāb al-Dīn al-Ālūsī (1802–1854) and “The Cooing of the Dove in the Qamariyya School Quarter”  Stefan Reichmuth Section 3: Changes in Function: The Anthologies 15 Buried Treasure, Sweet Basil and the Turtle in the Tree Innovative Features of Arabic adab in the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods  Hilary Kilpatrick 16 D’Ahiqar au tapis volant du roi Salomon, des mirabilia géographiques à Sindbad le marin en araméen moderne Adab et recherche orientaliste à la fin du XIXe siècle  Alessandro Mengozzi Part 4: Metamorphoses of Origins Introduction to Part 4  Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen Section 1: Science, Aesthetics and Mysticism 17 Adab et magie dans l’Islam médiéval Une lecture de traités arabes de magie à travers le prisme de l’adab  Jean-Charles Coulon 18 When Aesthetics Is Ethics, Forging Adab through Literary Imitation The Irano-Turkic Case  Marc Toutant 19 Paradoxe et subjectivité chez Hamzah Fansuri  Étienne Naveau Section 2: Reconstructing Origins beyond Ruins? 20 Adab into Littérature Debating Turkish Literature in Ancien Régime France  Jonathan Haddad 21 Ruins for a Renaissance: Decline, Rebirth and Cyclical History in the Arab Mediterranean  Elisabetta Benigni 22 Al-Hāshimī’s Jawāhir al-adab: Anthology and History of Arab Literature From a Reformist Project to Egyptian Nationalism (1900–1937)  Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen Index of Names and Places Index of Titles Index of Keywords and Notions

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Book SynopsisIslam on the Margins commemorates the contributions Michael Bonner made to Near Eastern Studies. It consists of fourteen contributions by his students and colleagues that focus on various aspects of his work. The contributions coalesce around four major themes of Bonner’s endeavours: Holy War and the Frontier, Qurʾan and Law, Geography and Ethnography, and Books, Coins and Titles. Collectively, the contributions underscore the breadth of Michael Bonner’s erudition and impact on the field.

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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 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.

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