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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking exploration of the transformative power of silenceThe Silent God and the Silenced: Mysticism and Contemplation amid Suffering explores the theological and spiritual dimensions of silence, challenging traditional speech/silence dichotomies. Cho investigates the silenced voices of the vulnerable, interweaving Christian mysticism, literature, and art to reveal silence's subversive potential in unlearning dominant narratives. The book advocates a theological approach that seriously considers silence and prioritizes attentive listening to promote genuine accountability. By engaging with figures such as Evagrius Ponticus, Hadewijch of Antwerp, Michel de Certeau, and Simone Weil, alongside contemporary voices like Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Arundhati Roy, the book offers fresh perspectives on the transformative power of silence in today's turbulent world. This interdisciplinary exploration will intrigue scholars and enthusiasts of theology, literature, and art. Readers will discover how silence can serve as a counterpoint to the noise and violence of modern life, providing avenues for resisting injustice and fostering contemplative, transformative pathways to spiritual and intellectual growth.

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking exploration of the transformative power of silenceThe Silent God and the Silenced: Mysticism and Contemplation amid Suffering explores the theological and spiritual dimensions of silence, challenging traditional speech/silence dichotomies. Cho investigates the silenced voices of the vulnerable, interweaving Christian mysticism, literature, and art to reveal silence's subversive potential in unlearning dominant narratives. The book advocates a theological approach that seriously considers silence and prioritizes attentive listening to promote genuine accountability. By engaging with figures such as Evagrius Ponticus, Hadewijch of Antwerp, Michel de Certeau, and Simone Weil, alongside contemporary voices like Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Arundhati Roy, the book offers fresh perspectives on the transformative power of silence in today's turbulent world. This interdisciplinary exploration will intrigue scholars and enthusiasts of theology, literature, and art. Readers will

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Book SynopsisI.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies Of the few surviving Nizari Ismaili texts from the Alamut period, the Haft bab (Seven Chapters), which outlines the basic tenets of Ismaili philosophical theology, has proved to be the most popular. One of its many attractive features is its simple recounting of the most complicated Ismaili theological narratives, including the doctrine of the Resurrection (qiyamat). Produced around the year 1203, this small treatise was probably intended as an introduction to the Diwan-i Qa'imiyyat compiled by Hasan-i Mahmud-i Katib (d. after 1242). For many years, the Haft bab was misattributed to Baba Sayyidna (Hasan-i Sabbah), but the true author has finally been identified as Hasan-i Mahmud-i Katib, whose works continue to shape our understanding of this important period.The current text of the Haft bab, edited and translated into English by S. J. Badakhchani, is based on Badakhchani's analysis of a great number of manuscripts available, including a complete and unaltered version. The concepts found in the text derive largely from the intellectual heritage of the Fatimids.These include the idea of tanzih (the absolute transcendence of God beyond human understanding and knowledge); a cyclical conception of prophetic history, consisting of seven eras (dawr); the Ismaili Imamate as the most important pillar of Ismaili Islam; and the Qiyamat as the completion and perfection of the religious law (shari'at). The Ismaili interpretation of the Qiyamat is radically different from Qur'anic eschatology in its esoteric formation, spiritual aspiration and imaginative scope. The Haft bab explains this key doctrine of Nizari Ismailism, shedding light on a fundamental period in the history of Shi'i Islam.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword by Christian Jambet General Introduction The author of Haft b?b Contents of Haft b?b Resurrection in Islam: An Overview Resurrection in Fatimid Ismailism Resurrection in Niz?r? Ismailism Proclamation of the Qiy?mat The Ismaili Response Contemorary Perspectives Manuscripts and Editions English Translation of Haft b?b Persian Edition of Haft b?b Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMedieval Islamic philosophers were occupied with questions of cosmology, predestination and salvation and human responsibility for actions. For Ismailis, the related notions of religious leadership, namely the imamate, and the eschatological role of the prophets and imams were equally central. These were also a matter of doctrinal controversy within the so-called Iranian school of Ismaili philosophical theology. Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani (d. after 411/1020) was one of the most important theologians in the Fatimid period, who rose to prominence during the reign of the imam-caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (r. 386/996–411/1021). He is renowned for blending the Neoplatonic philosophical heritage with Ismaili religious tradition. This book provides an analysis of al-Kirmani’s thought and sheds new light on the many layers of allusion which characterise his writings. Through a translation and analytical commentary of the eighth chapter of al-Kirm?n?’s Kit?b al-Riy?? (Book of Meadows), which is devoted to the subject of divine preordination and human redemption, Maria De Cillis shows readers first-hand his theologically distinctive interpretation of qada and qadar (divine decree and destiny). Here, al-Kirm?n? attempts to harmonise the views of earlier renowned Ismaili missionaries, Abu Hatim Ahmad b. Hamdan al-Razi (d. 322/934), Muhammad b. Ahmad al-Nasafi (d. 331/942) and Abu Ya?qub Ishaq b. Ahmad al-Sijistani (d. c. 361/971). De Cillis skilfully guides the reader through al-Kirmani’s metaphysical and esoteric correspondences, offering new insights into Shi'i/Ismaili philosophical thought which will be of great interest to those in the field of Shi?i studies and, more broadly, to scholars of medieval philosophy.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations List of Tables Acknowledgements NOTES ON THE TEXT INTRODUCTION PART ONE: DELINEATING AL-KIRMANI’S THEORETICAL SYSTEM 1. The Plotinian Legacy and al-Sijistani’s Influence: A preliminary Approach to al- Kirmani’s Understanding of the Intellect 2. Al-Kirmani’s views on the Agent and the Nature of the Intellect 3. Meritorious Determination: Outlining al-Kirmani’s Cosmological Scheme 4. The Human Soul and Providence 5. Human Actions in the Realm of Acquisition 6. The Intellect’s Knowledge of Particulars 7. Correspondences between the 'alam al-wahda and the 'alam al-din PART TWO: ANALYSIS AND TRANSLATION OF CHAPTER EIGHT OF AL-KIRMANI’S KITAB AL-RIYAD Origins and Nature of the qada' wa’l-qadar debate in the Riyad Fasl One Fasl Two Fasl Three Fasl Four Fasl Five Fasl Six Fasl Seven Fasl Eight Fasl Nine Fasl Ten Fasl Eleven Fasl Twelve Fasl Thirteen Fasl Fourteen Fasl Fifteen Fasl Sixteen Fasl Seventeen Fasl Eighteen Fasl Nineteen Fasl Twenty Fasl Twenty-one Fasl Twenty-two Fasl Twenty-three Fasl Twenty-four CONCLUSION Bibliography

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Book Synopsis Muhammad al-Tabari’s History, written about 300 years after the establishment of Islam, is one of the religion’s most important commentaries. It offers important insights into the early development of Islam, not so much for its history as for the ways it was interpreted and understood. Through application of modern historiographical analysis and scriptural exegesis, the book explores the space between factual history and interpretive history, or histoire. The focus is especially on the ways in which al-Tabari himself understood and interpreted Qur’anic evidence, employing it not so much for literal as for political purposes. In this sense, his work is best understood not as a reliable history in the modern sense but as a politically-inspired commentary. Granted that his work has often been relied on for Islam’s historical claims, this book offers important new insights into the ways in which power and politics were shaping interpretations in its first three hundred years. Trade Review«This is an outstanding work on all accounts. It takes on a major challenge, being the critical examination of the cultural and textual roots of an important Islamic text. The authors demonstrate unusual competence in dealing with these kinds of literatures and, by doing so, are making a substantial, original and timely contribution to the study of Islam and appreciating the challenges facing Muslim scholars today.» (Emeritus Professor Gary D Bouma, UNESCO Chair in Interreligious and Intercultural Relations – Asia Pacific, Monash University, Australia) «Power-Knowledge in Tabari’s Histoire of Islam offers readers a penetrating look at the construction of Islamic origins in Tabari's foundational history. Through this work readers will appreciate Islamic historiography with all of its political, social, and religious complexity. The authors not only shed new light on the motivations behind the founding narratives of Islam, they also show how appreciating the constructed nature of these narratives is a first step to overcoming pejorative notions of the other in today's world.» (Gabriel Said Reynolds, Professor of Islamic Studies and Theology, University of Notre Dame, USA)Table of ContentsCONTENTS: About The History: History versus Histoire - Late Antiquity Horizons of Knowing: Reviewing the Context of Tabari - The History as Political Myth: Nativity Narratives and Semiotics - Narrative and Myth as Common Sense: Theorization of Islamic Pastorality - Common Sense and Formation of the Maale: The Phenomenon of «Other» in the Religious Weltanschauung.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a comparative study of the accounts of the relationship between essence and existence, which are provided by Sadra and Hegel respectively. Sadra is presented as having a project that is similar in scope to Hegel’s own. The author argues that while Sadra shares with Hegel the latter’s rejection of essence as the positive quality of a determinate being, Sadra’s characterization of essence as the negative quality of a determinate (existent) is seen as too one-sided from Hegel’s perspective. This book would be primarily useful for Hegel scholars, scholars of Islamic philosophy, and those who are engaged in comparative philosophy.Table of ContentsContents: Sadra on the Metaphysical Essentialism of Plato and Aristotle: The Unfolding of Existence – Hegel on the Metaphysical Essentialism of Plato and Aristotle: The Unlocking of Essence – Sadra and Hegel on the Metaphysical Essentialism of Arabic Philosophy – Hegel’s Critique of Two Views of One- Sided Essence, That of Aristotle and That of Sadra.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the concepts of evil in the world-views of Plotinus and the Nso’ people of Cameroon. The author analyzes the theories of the natural structure and social organization of these views of the world. He stresses the importance of comparing Plotinus and African philosophy. The book offers a proper appreciation of fundamental differences, parallels and similarities and seeks to build on shared values and common existential concerns in the world-views of Plotinus and the Nso’. This book highlights the assumption that the world understood in terms of its wider dimensions is not a purposeless conglomerate of phenomena and events that bear no relation to each other, but is rather a structured whole, defined by hierarchy and order.Table of ContentsContents: Plotinus and African Views of the Problem of Evil in the World – The Understanding of Evil in the World-View of the Enneads – Evil in the Enneads with Particular Emphasis on I 8[51] – The Conception of Human Nature and Evil in the Enneads – «The End of the Journey» – Prospect for Multi-Cultural Philosophy – The Nso’ World-View and Identification of Concepts of Evil – Evil in the Nso’ World: A Further Consideration – Human Nature and Evil – Concepts of Evil in Plotinus and the Nso’: Comparisons.

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Book SynopsisThis book reveals to you the true meaning of Jihad in Islam. Our approach is based on the neurocognitive theory of meaning. This study is my attempt to give snapshots of how a scientific religious interpretation might look if we tried to do that. The whole point of a cognitive approach to religion is to aid us in gaining access to the conceptual network that the religious text is based on so that we can, in some extended sense of the term, understand the way we should understand it.

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Book SynopsisDie Untersuchung des Kitab šar? ?aga?ib al-qalb (Kapitel im I?ya? ?ulum ad-din) von al-Gazali, weist eine unmittelbar pädagogisch-philosophische und wissenschaftstheoretische Zielsetzung auf. Diese Abhandlung bietet eine besondere Gelegenheit, um religionspädagogische Konzepte aus historischer Perspektive zu beleuchten und deren Relevanz für die heutige Zeit zu erforschen.Diese Arbeit zielt auf die Erschließung des theologisch-anthropologischen Menschenbilds und der religionspädagogischen Implikationen in der o. g. Quelle. Hierbei erfolgt zudem die umfassende Analyse des Herzbegriffs im Koran, welcher dem Herzkonzept al-Gazalis gegenübergestellt wird. Ziel der Arbeit ist es, die Grundlagen einer theologisch-anthropologisch begründeten islamischen Religionspädagogik zu entwickeln. Die Untersuchung basiert auf der Prämisse, dass der Herzbegriff in al-Gazalis Werk pädagogisch-anthropologische und religionspädagogische Implikationen aufweist, die zur Etablierung einer ganzheitlichen Theorie der Bildungs- und Erziehungspraxis beitragen können.

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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 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 SynopsisPhilosophy in the Islamic World is a comprehensive and unprecedented four-volume reference work devoted to the history of philosophy in the realms of Islam, from its beginnings in the eighth century AD down to modern times. In the period covered by this first volume (eighth to tenth centuries), philosophy began to blossom thanks to the translation of Greek scientific works into Arabic and the emergence of autochthonous intellectual traditions within Islam. Both major and minor figures of the period are covered, giving details of biography and doctrine, as well as detailed lists and summaries of each author’s works. This is the English version of the relevant volume of the Ueberweg, the most authoritative German reference work on the history of philosophy ( Philosophie in der Islamischen Welt Band I: 8.–10. Jahrhundert., Basel: Schwabe, 2012).Trade Review"Within a short time, Philosophy in the Islamic World is acknowledged as one of the most important resources for the study of all aspects of Islam’s intellectual history. Rotraud Hansberger produced a superb English translation of the German original. The work's comprehensive approach to the subject together with the competence of many experts makes it indispensable for any future study on philosophy in Islam." - Frank Griffel, Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University "Auch wenn Band 3 noch nicht vorliegt, ist bereits jetzt gewiss, dass die Reihe «Philosophie in der islamischen Welt» weit mehr leistet als ein «normales» wissenschaftliches Handbuch: Die Grundlagenarbeit macht die Bände zu unentbehrlichen Standardwerken. Ein Beleg für die grosse Bedeutung des Projekts für die Islamwissenschaft ist auch, dass alle Bände nach der Publikation umgehend auf Englisch übersetzt werden." - Philipp Hufschmid, in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung,17.08.2022.

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Book SynopsisIn The Inimitable Qurʾān: Some Problems in English Translations of the Qurʾān with Reference to Rhetorical Features, Khalid Yahya Blankinship examines certain Arabic rhetorical features of the Qurʾān as represented in seven English translations. The author addresses the intersection of two important topics in Qurʾānic studies: the critique of the available English translations and the role of rhetoric in the interpretation of the Qurʾān. He identifies a number of figures characteristic of Qurʾanic style which represent some of the chief stumbling blocks for readers who are used to English in attempting to understand, interpret, and appreciate the text. The book should be useful to all those interested in rhetorical and translation studies and theory as well as Islamic studies.Table of ContentsIPreface Note on Transliteration Introduction 1 Word Order 2 Iltifāt 3 Indicative in Place of Imperative or Jussive 4 Indefinite Nouns 5 Non-Consequential Exception 6 Pleonasm and Redundancy 7 Repetition for Emphasis 8 Parallelism 9 Juxtaposition of Contrasting Conditional Sentences 10 Coordination 11 Lack of Conjunctive (Asyndeton) 12 Parenthesis (iʿtirāḍ) 13 Succinctness, or ījāz al-qiṣar 14 Ellipsis, or ījāz al-ḥadhf Conclusion 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 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 Andalusian Muslim philosopher Averroes (1126–1198) is known for his authoritative commentaries on Aristotle and for his challenging ideas about the relationship between philosophy and religion, and the place of religion in society. Among Jewish authors, he found many admirers and just as many harsh critics. This volume brings together, for the first time, essays investigating Averroes’s complex reception, in different philosophical topics and among several Jewish authors, with special attention to its relation to the reception of Maimonides.Table of ContentsContents Foreword  Racheli Haliva, Daniel Davies and Yoav Meyrav Notes on Contributors Part 1: What Is Jewish Averroism? 1 Was al-Ġazālī an Avicennist? Some Provocative Reflections on Jewish Averroism  Steven Harvey 2 How a Rehabilitated Notion of Latin Averroism Could Help in Understanding Jewish Averroism  Giovanni Licata Part 2: The Maimonides/Averroes Complex 3 Is Maimonides’s Biblical Exegesis Averroistic?  Mercedes Rubio 4 Averroes and Ğābir ibn Aflaḥ among the Jews: New Interpretations for Joseph ben Judah ibn Simon’s Allegorical Correspondence with Maimonides  Reimund Leicht 5 The Garden of Eden and the Scope of Human Knowledge: Maimonides, Falaquera and Nissim of Marseille  David Lemler 6 The Role of Averroes’s Tahāfut in Narboni’s Commentary on the Guide  Yonatan Shemesh Part 3: Averroes in Jewish Religious Discourse 7 Averroism, the Jewish-Christian Debate, and Mass Conversions in Iberia  Daniel J. Lasker 8 Double Truth in the Writings of Medieval Jewish Averroists: An Esoteric Way of Appealing to Both Sceptics and Non-sceptics  Shalom Sadik 9 Averroes’s Influence upon Theological Responses to Scepticism in Late Medieval Jewish Philosophy  Shira Weiss Part 4: Jewish Authors Doing Philosophy with (and about) Averroes 10 Love and Hate May Lead Astray: Moses Halevi’s Rejection of Averroes  Yoav Meyrav 11 Averroism in Judah ha-Cohen’s Midraš ha-ḥokhmah?  Resianne Fontaine 12 Falaquera the Averroist  Yair Shiffman 13 The Necessary Existent, Simplicity, and Incorporeality: An Anti-Avicennian-Averroist Approach  Bakinaz Abdalla 14 Gersonides and Kaspi on the Uncertainty of the Future and the Practical Intellect  Alexander Green 15 Rabbi Moses ben Judah (Rambi) as an Averroist  Esti Eisenmann 16 Crescas’s Attitude toward Averroes  Warren Zev Harvey 17 Matter and Elements: Al-Ġazālī and Averroes as a Source of Isaac Abravanel’s “The Forms of the Elements”  Elisa Coda Part 5: Averroes in Hebrew and from Hebrew 18 Choking on Water, the Stratification of Society, and the Death of Socrates in the Hebrew Averroes  Yehuda Halper 19 Ṭodros Ṭodrosi’s accessus ad auctorem: A Hebrew “Aristotelian Prologue” to Averroes’s Middle Commentaries on Rhetoric and Poetics  Francesca Gorgoni 20 Jacob Mantino and the Alleged Second Latin Translation of Averroes’s Long Commentary on On the Soul 3.5 and 3.36  Michael Engel Index

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Book SynopsisThe Nusayri-'Alawi faith is an excellent example of a syncretistic esoteric religion with self-conscious elite who zealously guarded its sectarian literature. The faith fuses elements of cults and creeds of ancient pagan religions, Persian religion, Christianity, Gnosticism, Sunni and especially Shi'i Islam, in a syncretistic system that is clothed in heterodox Shi'i garb. This book presents a critical edition and study of Kitab al-Ma'arif (Book of Knowledge), authored by the early 11th century sage Abu Sa'id Maymun b. Qasim al-Tabarani. Al-Tabarani was an outstanding communal leader and theologian in the formative period of the Nusayri religion, and became a prominent figure in the golden chain of Nusayri tradition. This seminal work is a compendium of Nusayri theology and liturgy, forming part of al-Tabarani's larger project to systematize the beliefs and practices of the developing religion and to consolidate its self-definition through a corpus of religious paideia. As such, this work, together with al-Tabarani's other writings, played a crucial role in transforming the meaning and practice of Islam by shaping the new religion's identity as the true Shi'a, reminiscent of antinomian Pauline Christianity and its definition of verus Israel.

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Book SynopsisMuslim philosophical activities on the cusp of the Safavid era (i.e., late 9th/15th and early 10th/16th centuries) have so far escaped the attention of modern scholars. In Iran, the city of Shiraz was the principal center of philosophy at this time, and it was here that Najm al-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Nayrīzī (d. after 933/1526), whose life and works are the subject of this book, spent his formative years. An accomplished Shīʿī scholars, Nayrīzī engaged with Avicennan as well as Suhrawardian philosophy in his works. Beside Nayrīzī, the present study introduces his contemporaries among the philosophers of Shiraz and provides an outline of the main challenges of their thought, particularly of the two leading figures, Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawānī (d. 908/1502) and Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Dashtakī.Trade Review"Copiously annotated, with a number of appendices which include Arabic texts, Philosophy in Early Safavid Iran will be of interest to historians and philosophers concerned with the intellectual development of the early Safavid period." Journal of Shiʿa Islamic Studies, Summer 2011, Vol. IV. No. 3, p. 362. "...Pourjavady deserves our thanks for this excellent contribution. Its appearance, one hopes, will constitute the pebble which will, or should, set in motion an avalanche of attention to the careers and contributions of all these figures from the fifteenth and sixteenth-century." Andrew J. Newman, in Journal of Shiʿa Islamic Studies Vol. IV, No. 4 (2011) "...this work can [...] be regarded as a substantial contribution to the necessary groundwork still to be done on the too long neglected intellectual developments especially in the Persianate world." Jan-Peter Hartung in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 21.4 (2011), 517-518. "... a highly welcome addition to the gradually increasing number of studies on the nature and extent of the history of post-Avicennan philosophy in Iran." Hossein Ziai in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 75.1 (2012), 155-156. "[Pourjavady] dresse un tableau remarquable des débats au cœur des préoccupations des penseurs de ce temps […], et décrit les deux tendances principales présentes alors à Shīrāz, le centre de la culture intellectuelle à l’époque." Cécile Bonmariage in Revue Philosophique de Louvain 110.2 (2012), 384-386. "...an admirable piece of scholarship that will be of help to many scholars and students in late medieval Islamic intellectual history." L.W.C. van Lit in Ilahiyat Studies 3.2 (2012). “This rich yet uncluttered presentation of philosophical issues debated in Shiraz in the late ninth/fifteenth and early tenth/sixteenth century by Reza Pourjavady, […], will delight scholars of the Middle East.” “[…]an admirable work of publishing[…].” Vika Gardner in Al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean 24.2 (2012) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2012.684750 "... Reza Pourjavady is to be complimented for his clearly written, well-organized, and carefully presented portrait of the Shiraz school and its star pupil, Najm al-Dīn al-Nayrīzī. He casts important light on a thinker and school heretofore inadequately known or studied and advances understanding of the important movement both represent. In the process, he has demonstrated a compelling mastery of the relevant materials, especially the manuscript tradition, and an admirable ability to put them in context." Charles E. Butterworth, University of Maryland, in Iranian Studies 52.1-2 (2019)

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Book SynopsisThrough close study of Avicenna's statements and major works, Dimitri Gutas traces Avicenna's own sense of his place in the Aristotelian tradition and the history of philosophy in Islam, and provides an introduction to reading his philosophical works by delineating the approach most consistent with Avicenna's intention and purpose in philosophy. The second edition of this foundational work, which has quickened fruitful research into the philosopher in the last quarter century, is completely revised and updated, and adds a new final chapter summarizing Avicenna's philosophical project. It is also enlarged with the addition of a new appendix which offers a critical inventory of Avicenna's authentic works, updating the work of Mahdavi (1954) with additional information on all manuscripts and important editions and translations. Its usefulness enhanced, the book provides primary orientation to Avicenna's philosophy and works and constitutes an indispensable research tool for their study. Winner of the I. R. Iran World Award for the Book of the Year 2014Trade Review"Dimitri Gutas needs no introduction to the scholar of Islamic thought, especially in the area of philosophy. Throughout his long and fruitful career he has produced a series of works on the Greek heritage in Islamic philosophy that have remained the standard reference work for both academics and students.This present work, which is the second revised and enlarged edition of a previous one that had been published back in 1988, is a much needed addition that will enhance a better appraisal of the Avicennan corpus. [...]. Like its predecessor, this second revised and enlarged edition is breath–taking in its scope and a mark of authentic and meticulous scholarship. Yet again, Gutas has proved his credentials as an authority on Avicenna, as well as a scholar of profound erudition and insight, whose works continue to provide abundant food for further thought and discussion." Joseph Ellul in Islamochristiana 40 (2014) "... this volume is a very detailed introduction and orientation to Avicenna: a foundational tool for research on his philosophy which will contribute to further studies." Cecilia Martini Bonadeo in Studia graeco-arabica 5 (2015). "The new edition of Avicenna has become more useful with the carefully prepared index of Ibn Sīnā’s works in original titles and their English translations as well as the bibliography and the index of concepts that did not exist in the first edition. It is especially important for outlining the Western literature on Ibn Sīnā over a quarter of a century. Thanks to Gutas’ mastery and diligence in his historical, philological and philosophical analysis of Ibn Sīnā’s life, works and thoughts, the new edition of Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition reasserts its methodological model for studying Arabic/Islamic philosophy and deserves to be called a “modern classic.” M. Cüneyt Kaya in Nazariyat, Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, May 2015. "... among the most important publications on Avicenna in modern times. It is a masterpiece of history of Arabic philosophy, serious philology and meticulous scholarship." Abdessamad Belhaj in Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 14 June, 2015. "The second edition,... is a corrected and greatly expanded version of the original work and will be of use to students and scholars for decades to come." John T. Slotemaker in Religious Studies Review, 42, December 2016. "...this book provides primary orientation to Avicenna's philosophy and works and constitutes and indispensable research tool for their study. Thus, it is absolutely useful to all those interested in the philosophy of Avicenna, Islamic philosophy, medieval philosophy, ancient and late antique philosophy, Aristotle and the Aristotelian tradition." Elias TempelisTable of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition (2013) Acknowledgments Introduction to the First Edition (1988) Layout of the Work PART ONE DOCUMENTS ON AVICENNA AND THE ARISTOTELIAN TRADITION Chapter 1. Personal Texts by Avicenna and His Disciples on His Relation to the Aristotelian Tradition Chapter 2. An Inventory and Relative Chronology of Avicenna’s Major Philosophical Works. Their Organization and Contents in Relation to the Aristotelian Tradition PART TWO AVICENNA’S RECEPTION OF THE ARISTOTELIAN TRADITION Chapter 3. Avicenna’s Intellectual Upbringing: The Autobiography and Its Interpretation Chapter 4. Avicenna’s Conception of the History of Philosophy Chapter 5. Avicenna’s Conception of the Praxis of Philosophy PART THREE AVICENNA’S INTEGRATION OF THE ARISTOTELIAN TRADITION Chapter 6. The Resolution of the Major Points of Conflict with the Aristotelian Tradition Chapter 7. The Evolution of Avicenna’s Attitude toward Aristotle, the Aristotelian Tradition, and His Own Work Chapter 8. The Elaboration of Methods CODA. Avicenna’s Philosophical Project APPENDIX. Inventory of Avicenna’s Authentic works Index of Names and Places Index of Avicenna’s Works with Passages Cited Index of Lemmata Index of Qurʾānic Passages Index of Manuscripts Index of Greek Words Index of Arabic Words Index of Technical Terms Bibliography

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

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Book SynopsisThis is the first investigation of one of the main interests of astronomy in Islamic civilization, namely, timekeeping by the sun and stars and the regulation of the astronomically-defined times of Muslim prayer. The study is based on over 500 medieval astronomical manuscripts first identified by the author, now preserved in libraries all over the world and originally from the entire Islamic world from the Maghrib to Central Asia and the Yemen.

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, Gabriella Elgrably-Berzin offers an analysis of the fourteenth-century Hebrew translation of a major eleventh-century philosophical text: Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Najāt (The Book of Salvation), focusing on the psychology treatise on physics. The translator of this work was Ṭodros Ṭodrosi, the main Hebrew translator of Avicenna’s philosophical writings. This study includes a critical edition of Ṭodrosi’s translation, based on two manuscripts as compared to the Arabic edition (Cairo, 1938), and an appendix featuring the section on metaphysics. By analyzing Ṭodrosi’s language and terminology and making his Hebrew translation available for the first time, Berzin’s study will help enable scholars to trace the borrowings from Todrosi’s translations in Jewish sources, shedding light on the transmission and impact of Avicenna’s philosophy.Trade Review"By analyzing Todrosi’s language and terminology and making his Hebrew translation available for the first time, Berzin’s study will enable scholars to trace the borrowings from Todrosi’s translations in Jewish sources, shedding light on the transmission process, translation theory and praxis, and the impact of Avicenna’s philosophy on Jewish medieval scientist/philosophers. Recommended for all academic libraries with Jewish studies collections and upper level graduates." David B. Levy in AJL Reviews 5, 4 (2015).

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

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

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

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

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Book SynopsisThe volume contains critical editions of the extant parts of two hitherto unknown theological works by the Būyid vizier al-Ṣāḥib b. ʿAbbād (d. 385/925), who is well known to have vigorously promoted the teaching of Muʿtazilī theology throughout Būyid territories and beyond. The manuscripts on which the edition is based come from Cairo Geniza store rooms. They consist of two manuscripts for each of the two texts—testimony to the impact of al-Ṣāḥib’s education policy on the contemporaneous Jewish community in Cairo. The longer treatise of al-Ṣāḥib of ca. 350/960, possibly his Kitāb Nahj al-sabīl fī uṣūl al-dīn, appears to be the earliest Muʿtazilī work preserved among the Jewish community. The second, briefer treatise also contains a commentary by ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Hamadānī (d. 415/1025).Trade Review"This is certainly a book of interest for the students of Mutazilite theology as well as for those interested in the cultural context and content of the era of the Buyid Dynasty." - Stavros Nikolaidis, in: Journal of Oriental and African Studies 27 (2018)

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

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

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

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Book SynopsisDieses Buch bietet eine textkritische Edition von Naǧīb ad-Dīn as-Samarqandīs (st. 619/1222) medizinischem Nahrungsmittellexikon Kitāb al-Aġḏiya wa-l-ašriba mit deutscher Übersetzung und einer Untersuchung zu den Inhalten des Werks und seinem Kontext innerhalb der arabischen Medizinliteratur. This book offers a critical edition of Najīb ad-Dīn as-Samarqandī’s (d. 619/1222) medical food encyclopedia Kitāb al-Aghḏiya wa-l-ashriba along with a German translation and a study on the contents of the work and its context within Arabic medical literature.Trade ReviewWinner of 26th World Award for Book of the Year in Iran 2019. "I want to emphasize the importance of this translation that makes this work available to scholars of medical history who are interested in studying Arabic medicine but regrettably do not read Arabic. This translation will offer them an access to Arabic medicine that played an essential role in the development of medicine from Greek civilization to the early modern period in Europe." - Ayman Yasin Atat, in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 114/3 (2019) "With her edition, translation and study of al-Samarqandī’s Kitāb al-Aghdhiya wa’l-ashriba, Juliane Müller has produced a very fine scholarly work which excels at virtually all levels — linguistic, historical, technical and material. Her edition of the Arabic text is meticulous, her German translation ingenious, and her various explorations of sometimes uncharted territories are extremely detailed without ever losing sight of the bigger picture. [...] It is to be hoped that Juliane Müller will continue in the future to gift us with many more contributions of such sublime quality." - Oliver Kahl, in: Journal of Semitic Studies 63/2 (2018) "Muller's edition [...] is a most useful addition to scholarship in this field. A wonderful book, a meticulous piece of scholarship, and a rich source of information on a variety of subjects." - Remke Kruk, in: Bibliotheca Orientalis 75/1-2 (2018)

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Book SynopsisIn Opposition to Philosophy in Safavid Iran Ata Anzali and S.M. Hadi Gerami offer a critical edition of what is arguably the most erudite and extensive critique of philosophy from the Safavid period. The editors’ extensive introduction offers an in-depth analysis that places the work within the broader framework of Safavid intellectual and social history.Trade Review“The quality of editing of the Arabic text, by Muhammad Hadi Gerami, is to be praised. He has done a tremendous amount of work to make the text accessible to a wider readership. The indexes are prepared meticulously and facilitate use of the edited text. All in all, Gerami’s edition of Ḥikmat al-ʿārifīn is a major contribution to the history of intellectual and political life in Safavid Iran.” Kioumars Ghereghlou, in the Journal of the American Oriental Society 140/2 (2020)Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration Editors’ Introduction  Philosophy and Philosophers: Hapless Victims or Elite Contenders?  Muḥammad-Ṭāhir Qummī  Hikmat al-ʿĀrifīn  The Critical Edition Bibliography Plates Critical Edition of Hikmat al-ʿĀrifīn

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Book SynopsisIn ʿAlāʾ al-Dawla al-Simnānī between Spiritual Authority and Political Power: A Persian Lord and Intellectual in the Heart of the Ilkhanate, Giovanni Maria Martini investigates the personality of a major figure in the socio-political and cultural landscape of Mongol Iran. In pursuing this objective, the author follows parallel paths: Chapter 1 provides the most updated reconstruction of Simnānī’s (d. 736/1336) biography, which, thanks to its unique features, emerges as a cross-section of Iranian society and as a microhistory of the complex relationships between a Sufi master, Persian elites and Mongol rulers during the Ilkhanid period; Chapter 2 contains a study on the phenomenon of Arabic-Persian diglossia in Simnānī’s written work, arguing for its socio-religious function; in Chapters 3 to 6 the critical editions of two important, interrelated treatises by Simnānī are presented; finally, Chapter 7 offers the first full-length annotated translation of a long work by Simnānī ever to appear in a Western language.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on Transliteration Introduction  Simnānī and the Kubrawiyya  The Criticism of Ibn ʿArabī  The Current State of Research  Organization and Objectives of this Book 1 Simnānī’s Biography: A Window into Iranian Society under the Ilkhanids  Background  Youth  Metanoia  The Return to Simnān  The Meeting with Šaraf al-Dīn al-Ḥanawayh  The Departure to Baghdad and Imprisonment at the Court of Arġūn  Back to Simnān. The Trips to Iraq and the Ḥiǧāz  Ṣūfīābād Ḫudādād: Simnānī’s Own Dār al-Hiǧra in the Heart of the Ilkhanate  Mastery, Advanced Years and Death 2 The Relationship between al-Wārid al-šārid al-ṭārid šubhat al-mārid and the Zayn al-muʿtaqad li-zayn al-muʿtaqid   Introductory Remarks   Background   Section One: Descriptive Analysis of the Differences between al-Wārid and the Zayn   Section Two: The Dynamics of Translation: Audiences, Authorship and Divine Inspiration in the Composition of al-Wārid and the Zayn   Section Three: Observations on the Structure of Some of Simnānī’s Most Relevant Works   Section Four: Observations on the Persian Translation of the ʿUrwa li-ahl al-ḫalwa wa al-ǧalwa 3 The Method Used in the Preparation of the Critical Edition of al-Wārid al-šārid al-ṭārid šubhat al-mārid  Foreword   Description of the Manuscripts   Analysis of the Evidence Useful for the Reconstruction of the Stemma Codicum and Related Hypotheses   Stemma Codicum 4 Established Text of al-Wārid al-šārid al-ṭārid šubhat al-mārid 5 The Method Used in the Preparation of the Critical Edition of the Zayn al-muʿtaqad li-zayn al-muʿtaqid  Foreword   A Note on Transcription   Description of the Manuscripts   Analysis of the Evidence Useful for the Reconstruction of the Stemma Codicum and Related Hypotheses   Stemma Codicum 6 Established Text of the Zayn al-muʿtaqad li-zayn al-muʿtaqid 7 The Inspiration Refuting the Rebel’s Sophistry (Translation of al-Wārid al-šārid al-ṭārid šubhat al-mārid)   A Note on the Translation   The Inspiration Refuting The Rebel’s Sophistry Appendix:Supplement to the Catalogue of Simnānī’s Written Works Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the eighth to the tenth century A.D., Greek scientific and philosophical works were translated wholesale into Arabic. A Greek and Arabic Lexicon is the first systematic attempt to present in an analytical, rationalized way our knowledge of the vocabulary of these translations.

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Book SynopsisThe late Professor Hossein Ziai’s interests focused on the Illuminationist (Ishrāqī) tradition. Dedicated to his memory, this volume deals with the post-Avicennan philosophical tradition in Iran, and in particular the Illuminationist school and later philosophers, such as those associated with the School of Isfahan, who were fundamentally influenced by it. The focus of various chapters is on translations, editions, and close expositions of rationalist works in areas such as epistemology, logic and metaphysics rather than mysticism more generally, and also on specific texts rather than themes or studies of individual philosophers. The purpose of the volume is to introduce new texts into the modern canon of Islamic and Iranian philosophy. Various texts in this volume have not been previously translated nor have they been the subject of significant Western scholarship.Trade Review"This volume delivers what the editors promise at the outset: to introduce “new texts into the modern canon of Islamic and Iranian philosophy” (p. ix). It puts together scholarly editions of many texts which have not been available to Western readers, along with highly engaging introductions, helpful notes, and detailed bibliographies. For this, the editors and contributors deserve our gratitude." - Rasoul Namazi in Iranian Studies (2020)Table of ContentsPreface Note on Contributors I. Introduction 1. Ali Gheissari, “Hossein Ziai, Professor of Philosophy and Iranian Studies: A Bio Bibliographical Introduction” 2. John Walbridge, “Hossein Ziai and Suhrawardī Studies” II. Suhrawardī and the Philosophy of Illumination 3. John Walbridge, “Illuminationist Manuscripts: Rediscovery and Reception of Suhrawardī” 4. Mohammad Karimi Zanjani Asl, “Some Observations on the Kashf al-Ghitā’ li Ikhwān al-Safā.” Translation of Kashf al-Ghiṭā’ by John Walbridge 5. John Walbridge, “Suhrawardī’s Creed of the Sages” 6. Malihe Karbassian, “The Meaning and Etymology of Barzakh in Illuminationist Philosophy” 7. Nasrollah Pourjavady, “Concept of Sakina in Suhrawardī” III. The Illuminationists or Suhrawardī’s Commentators 8. Ahmed Alwishah, “Suhrawardī and Ibn Kammūna on the Impossibility of Having Two Necessary Existents” 9. Y. Tzvi Langermann, “Ithbāt al-Mabda’ by Saʿd ibn Manṣūr ibn Kammūna: A Philosophically Oriented Monotheistic Ethic” 10. L.W.Cornelis van Lit and Christian Lange, “Constructing a World of Its Own: A Translation of the Chapter on the World of Image from Shahrazurīi’s Rasā’il al-Shajarah al-Ilāhīiyya” 11. Reza Pourjavady, “Shihāb al-Dīn Suhrawardī’s “Postscript” to His Tablets of ʿImād al-Dīn and Najm Dīn Nayrīzī’s Commentary on It” IV. The Wider Tradition 12. Khaled El-Rouayheb, “Takmīil al-Mantiq: A Sixteenth Century Arabic Manual on Logic” 13. Charles Butterworth, Fārābī’s Purposes of Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Avicenna’s ‘Eastern’ Philosophy” 14. Jon McGinnis, “Mind the Gap: The Reception of Avicenna’s New Argument against Actually Infinite Space” 15. Eiyad S. al-Kutubi, “Translation of Mullā Sadrā’s The Traveler’s Provision (Zād al-Musāfier)” Index

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Book SynopsisThe Kitāb Taḥrīm dafn al-aḥyāʾ, the Book on the Prohibition to Bury the Living, written by the Nestorian physician ʿUbaidallāh Ibn Buḫtīšūʿ (d. c. 1060 CE), deals with the causes, signs and treatments of apparent death. Based on a short pseudo-Galenic treatise, whose Greek original is lost, ʿUbaidallāh’s Arabic commentary is a comprehensive and in many ways unique piece of scientific writing that moreover promotes a psychological understanding of physical illness. Oliver Kahl’s present book offers a critical Arabic edition with annotated English translation of ʿUbaidallāh’s work on apparent death, framed by a detailed introductory study and extensive glossaries covering all relevant terms; for comparative purposes, the Arabic and Hebrew recensions of the lost Greek prototype are presented in an appendix.Trade Review"K. hat mit seiner philologisch soliden Edition, die durch ausführliche Indizes bereichert ist, ein frühes und wertvolles Zeugnis der gräko-arabischen Komponente der arabisch-islamischen Kultur zugänglich gemacht...Darüber hinaus enthält der Kommentar des ʿUbaidallāh eine Fülle interessanter Einzelheiten zu Zeitgenossen und weitere persönliche Reminiszenzen, auch zur eigenen ärztlichen Praxis." Gotthard Strohmaier, in Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 114/4–5 (2019): 351–381Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction  1 ʿUbaidallāh Ibn Buḫtīšūʿ  2 The Book on Apparent Death  Plates Text and Translation Bibliography Indices Introduction to the Indices Index of Medicine and Pharmacy Index of People and Places Index of Work Titles Index of Miscellaneous Terms Index of Botanical Names Appendix: The Pseudo-Galenic Treatise  1 The Arabic Recension  2 The Hebrew Recension (by Gerrit Bos)

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Book SynopsisIn Beyond Schools: Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Wazīrʼs (d. 840/1436) Epistemology of Ambiguity, Damaris Wilmers provides the first extensive analysis of Ibn al-Wazīrʼs thought and its role in the “Sunnisation of the Zaydiyya”, emphasizing its significance for conflicts between schools of thought and law beyond the Yemeni context. Contrasting Ibn al-Wazīrʼs works with those of his Zaydi contemporary Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā b. al-Murtaḍā, Damaris Wilmers offers a study of a number of heretofore unedited texts from 9th/15th century Yemen when Zaydi identity was challenged by an increasing theological and legal diversity. She shows how Ibn al-Wazīr, who has been classed with different schools, actually de-emphasized school affiliation and developed an integrative approach based on a unique theory of knowledge.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1 Life and Intellectual Environment of Ibn al-Wazīr and Ibn al-Murtaḍā  1 Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. al-Wazīr’s (d. 840/1436) Biography  2 Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā b. al-Murtaḍā (d. 840/1436) as a Scholar  3 Conclusion 2 Ibn al-Wazīr’s Works  1 Al-Amr bi-l-ʿuzla  2 Al-ʿAwāṣim wa-l-awāṣim  3 Al-Āyāt al-mubīnāt  4 Āyāt al-aḥkām al-sharʿiyya  5 Al-Burhān al-qāṭiʿ fī ithbāt al-ṣāniʿ  6 Al-Ḥusām al-mashhūr  7 Al-Istiẓhār bi-l-dalīl al-samʿī fī ʿadam wuqūʿ al-ṭalāq al-bidʿī  8 Īthār al-ḥaqq ʿalā l-khalq  9 Kitāb al-Qawāʿid  10 Kitāb fī l-tafsīr  11 Majmaʿ al-ḥaqāʾiq wa-l-raqāʾiq fī mamādiḥ rabb al-khalāʾiq  12 Manẓūma shiʿriyya fī uṣūl al-fiqh  13 Masāʾil arbaʿa tataʿallaq bi-l-muqallad wa-l-mustaftī  14 Masʾalat ikhtilāf al-Muʿtazila wa-l-Ashʿariyya fī ḥamd Allāh ʿalā l-īmān  15 Masāʾil mustakhrajāt  16 Masāʾil shāfiyāt  17 Masāʾil sharīfa  18 Mukhtaṣar mufīd fī ʿulūm al-ḥadīth  19 Muthīr al-aḥzān fī wadāʿ shahr Ramaḍān  20 Nuṣrat al-aʿyān  21 Qubūl al-bushrā bi-l-taysīr lil-yusrā  22 Al-Rawḍ al-bāsim  23 Al-Taʾdīb al-malakūtī  24 Taḥrīr al-kalām fī masʾalat al-ruʾya  25 Takhṣīṣ āyāt al-jumʿa  26 Tanqīḥ al-anẓār fī maʿrifat ʿulūm al-āthār  27 Tarjīḥ asālīb al-Qurʾān ʿalā asālīb al-Yūnān  28 Additional Works Ascribed to Ibn al-Wazīr 3 Central Concepts of Ibn al-Wazīr’s Epistemological Thought  1 Definitions of Knowledge  2 Definitions of the Means to Possess Knowledge  3 The Proof of God’s Existence (ithbāt al-ṣāniʿ)  4 The Argument from the Absence of Evidence (al-istidlāl bi-l-ʿadam)  5 Conclusion 4 Central Concepts of Ibn al-Wazīr’s Theological Thought  1 God’s Wisdom (ḥikma) as the Key to Harmonization  2 Harmonized Doctrine: God’s Names (asmāʾ) and Attributes (ṣifāt)  3 Harmonized Doctrine: God’s Will (irāda)  4 Harmonized Doctrine: Human Actions (afʿāl al-ʿibād) and Free Will (ikhtiyār)  5 Conclusion 5 The Structure of Legal Authority in Ibn al-Wazīr’s Thought  1 The Theory of Infallibilism and the Probability of Ijtihād  2 The Possibility of Ijtihād and the Existence of Mujtahids  3 Taqlīd and Concepts of Following  4 The Requirements (shurūṭ) for Ijtihād  5 Divisibility (tajazzuʾ) of Ijtihād and the Discerning Student (al-ṭālib al-mumayyiz)  6 Extrapolation of Principles (takhrīj)  7 The Muqallid’s Commitment to a Legal School (iltizām)  8 Conclusion 6 Conclusion Bibliography Index of Pre-Modern Authors Index of Geographical Names Index of Pre-Modern Books Index of Quran Citations Index of Arabic Terms

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Book SynopsisThis is the first critical edition of Book X of the Latin version of Averroes’ Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. The text is accompanied by a French translation and explanatory notes, and is preceded by a study of the manuscript tradition and two studies on the Commentary itself. Cette première édition critique de la version latine du Commentaire d’Averroès à l’Éthique à Nicomaque (Livre X), accompagnée d’une traduction française annotée, est précédée de l’examen de la tradition manuscrite du texte et de deux études consacrée à ce Commentaire.Table of ContentsAvant-propos Introduction Le Livre X du Commentaire moyen À l’ Éthique à Nicomaque  1 Le dossier textuel  2 Les témoins latins  3 Le classement des témoins  4 Les principes de l’ édition du livre X du commentaire moyen à l’ Éthique à Nicomaque  5 Divisions du livre X du Commentaire moyen à l’ Éthique à Nicomaque Comment lire le Commentaire moyen à l’ Éthique à Nicomaque ?  1 Poétique du talḫīṣ dans le Commentaire moyen à l’ Éthique à Nicomaque  2 Averroès face à l’ Éthique à Nicomaque Conspectus siglorum Texte latin et traduction française annotée Bibliographie Index nominum antiquorum et mediaevalium Index nominum recentiorum Index verborum potiorum Index verborum latinorum potiorum in libro decimo Commentarii Averrois in Ethica Nicomachea

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Book SynopsisFirst published as a special issue of the journal Medieval Encounters (vol. 23, 2017), this volume, edited by Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Charles Burnett, Silke Ackermann, and Ryan Szpiech, brings together fifteen studies on various aspects of the astrolabe in medieval cultures. The astrolabe, developed in antiquity and elaborated throughout the Middle Ages, was used for calculation, teaching, and observation, and also served astrological and medical purposes. It was the most popular and prestigious of the mathematical instruments, and was found equally among practitioners of various sciences and arts as among princes in royal courts. By considering sources and instruments from Muslim, Christian, and Jewish contexts, this volume provides state-of-the-art research on the history and use of the astrolabe throughout the Middle Ages. Contributors are Silke Ackermann, Emilia Calvo, John Davis, Laura Fernández Fernández, Miquel Forcada, Azucena Hernández, David A. King, Taro Mimura, Günther Oestmann, Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma, Petra G. Schmidl, Giorgio Strano, Flora Vafea, and Johannes Thomann.Table of ContentsPreface to the New Edition  Ryan Szpiech Preface Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures  Josefina Rodriguez-Arribas, Charles Burnett, and Silke Ackermann Introduction Hic Sunt Dragones—Astrolabe Research Revisited  Silke Ackermann Astrolabes as Eclipse Computers: Four Early Arabic Texts on Construction and Use of the Ṣafīḥa Kusūfiyya  Johannes Thomann The Astrolabe Finger Ring of Bonetus de Latis: Study, Latin Text, and English Translation with Commentary  Josefina Rodriguez Arribas Some Features of the Old Castilian Alfonsine Translation of ‘Alī Ibn Khalaf’s Treatise on the Lamina Universal  Emilia Calvo From the Celestial Globe to the Astrolabe: Transferring the Celestial Motion onto the Plane of the Astrolabe  Flora Vafea Knowledge in Motion: An Early European Astrolabe and its Possible Medieval Itinerary  Petra G. Schmidl A Monumental Astrolabe Made for Shāh Jahān and Later Reworked with Sanskrit Legends  Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma Saphaeae and Hay’āt: The Debate Between Instrumentalism and Realism in al-Andalus  Miguel Forcada Astrolabes on Parchment: The Astrolabes Depicted in Alfonso X’s Libro Del Saber De Astrologia and Their Relationship to Contemporary Instruments  Laura Fernández Fernández Fit for a King: Decoding the Great Sloane Astrolabe and Other English Astrolabes with “Quatrefoil” Retes  John Davis European Astrolabes to ca. 1500: An Ordered List  David A. King Too Many Arabic Treatises on the Operation of the Astrolabe in the Medieval Islamic World: Athīr al‐Dīn al-Abharī’s Treatise on Knowing the Astrolabe and His Editorial Method  Taro Mimura Changing the Angle of Vision: Astrolabe Dials on Astronomical Clocks  Günther Oestmann Astrolabes for the King: The Astrolabe of Petrus Raimundi of Barcelona  Azucena Hernández A New Approach to the Star Data of Early Planispheric Astrolabes  Giorgio Strano Epilogue Reconstruction of the Plate of Eclipses according to the Description by ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā  Flora Vafea Index

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