The Koran (Qur’an) Books

Book SynopsisAlthough recent scholarship has increasingly situated the Qur'ān in the historical context of Late Antiquity, such a perspective is only rarely accompanied by the kind of microstructural literary analysis routinely applied to the Bible. The present volume seeks to redress this lack of contact between literary and historical studies. Contributions to the first part of the volume address various general aspects of the Qur'ān’s political, economic, linguistic, and cultural context, while the second part contains a number of close readings of specific Qur'ānic passages in the light of Judeo-Christian tradition and ancient Arabic poetry, as well as discussions of the Qur'ān’s internal chronology and transmission history. Throughout, special emphasis is given to methodological questions.Trade Review“L’originalité et la richesse des articles de cet ouvrage ne peuvent qu’augmenter l’impatience de tous ceux qui attendent la publication de ce que les chercheurs du projet Corpus Coranicum annoncent comme la première édition critique du Coran.” J. Dean in Revue d’Histoire et de Philosophie Religieuses 91.1 (2011) “[…] the collection is wide-ranging and very rich.” Michel Lagarde in Islamochristiana 37 (2011), p.340-341.

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Book SynopsisFor the first time, the dramatic changes the Qur’anic code underwent during the Umayyad period (660-750 C.E.) are analysed and presented on the basis of a selection of material in good part unpublished. In Qur’ans of the Umayyads, François Déroche offers a chronology of the various developments which marked the period, in an approach combining philology, art history, codicology and palaeography. The conclusions he reaches challenge the traditional account about the writing down of the Qur’an and throw a new light on the role of the Umayyads in its handwritten diffusion. Winner of 23rd I.R. Iran World Award for the Book of the Year 2016!Trade ReviewWinner of the 23rd I.R. Iran World Award for the Book of the Year 2016. "François Déroches Studie über die Korane der Umaijadenzeit gibt einen hervorragenden Überblick über den Forschungsstand und weist neue Richtungen". Rüdiger Lohlker Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, vol. 106/2016 "Déroche’s strength is to build the large historical picture of Umayyad scribal culture after carefully extracting the information from the myriad details contained in the manuscripts. His comments based on careful observation of what is preserved in some of Islam’s earliest artefacts are always worth considering. It is as prudent to note what he says as what he perhaps wisely leaves unsaid, or says tentatively. Déroche’s Qurʾans of the Umayyads is no exception to his books and articles being required reading in the field." – Keith Small, in: Journal of the American Oriental Society 136.4 (2016) "Qur’ans of the Umayyads. A First Overview presents evidence that further enables the reconstruction of the history of the Qur’ān; an endeavour that François Déroche has engaged in for a number of years. […] The book offers some new results about old Qur’ān manuscripts, and helpfully provides new material and new images of Qur’ān manuscripts dated to the Umayyad period." – Asma Hilali, in: BCAI 29 (2013) "François Déroche is the world’s leading scholar on matters related to Qur’an manuscripts. […] This book is a masterful survey of the written Qur’an’s emergence. The inclusion of forty-five pictures of manuscripts is especially welcome, for they truly bring the material to life. […] For those concerned with the Qur’an in manuscript form, [...] this work is essential and definitely worth the effort." – Andrew Rippin, in: The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 32/4 (2015)Table of ContentsAbbreviations Preface Introduction Chapter 1 Transcribing the Qur’ân in Early Umayyad times: The Codex Parisino-petropolitanus Chapter 2 The Written Transmission of the Qur’ân in Ḥijāzī Script A General Appraisal Chapter 3 The Transformation of the Muṣḥaf Chapter 4 Imperial ‘Scriptoria’? Conclusion Bibliography Index of Manuscripts Figures

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

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Book SynopsisQurʾān Quotations Preserved on Papyrus Documents, 7th-10th Centuries is the first book on the Qurʾān’s Sitz im Leben, i.e. on how the Qurʾān was quoted in Arabic original letters, legal deeds, and amulets. Qurʾān Quotations also serves as an in-depth exploration of the radiocarbon dating of documents and Qurʾānic manuscripts. Contributors: Ursula Bsees; Tobias J. Jocham; Andreas Kaplony; Michael Josef Marx, Daniel Potthast; Leonora Sonego; Eva Mira Youssef-Grob.Table of ContentsThe Qurʾān’s Sitz im Leben: Preliminary Remarks on Methodology Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Michael Josef Marx 2 Qurʾān Quotations in Arabic Papyrus Letters from the 7th to the 10th Centuries  Daniel Potthast 3 Qurʾān Quotations in Papyrus Legal Documents  Leonora Sonego 4 Qurʾānic Quotations in Arabic Papyrus Amulets  Ursula Bsees 5 Radiocarbon (14C) Dating of Early Islamic Documents: Background and Prospects  Eva Mira Youssef-Grob 6 Radiocarbon (14C) Dating of Qurʾān Manuscripts  Michael Josef Marx and Tobias J. Jocham General Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Tafsir as Mystical Experience, Todd Lawson shows how the Quran may be engaged with for meaning and understanding, the usual goal of mystical exegesis, and also how it may be engaged with through tafsīr in a quest for spiritual or mystical experience. In this earliest of the Báb’s extended works, written before his public claim to be the return of the hidden Imam, the act of reading is shown to be something akin to holy communion in which the sacred text is both entrance upon and destination of the mystic quest. The Quran here is a door to an “abode of glory” and an abiding spiritual encounter with the divine through the prophet, his daughter Fāṭima and the twelve Imams of Ithna-ʿasharī Shiʿism who inhabit the letters, words, verses and suras of the Book. Cover calligraphy by Burhan Zahrai of Quran 53:11Table of ContentsIntroduction: Entering the House of Glory Chapter One: Walāya: Luminous Love and Intimacy Chapter Two: Tetrads: Architecture of Illumined Intimacy, I Chapter Three: Heptads: Architecture of Illumined Intimacy, II Chapter Four: Tajallī: Divine Glory Manifested Chapter Five: Qāʾim: Glory Embodied Epilogue: A Mysticism of the Covenant Acknowledgements Abbreviations Manuscripts Bibliography of Printed Works Index

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Book SynopsisArabic and Persian Manuscripts in the Birnbaum Collection, Toronto includes many early copies, from the 6th century A.H. / 12th century C.E. onwards. They cover a wide range of subjects. The catalogue gives detailed descriptions of 66 Arabic and 34 Persian works, arranged by subject. Author and title indexes provide easy access, and photographs of selected pages enhance the descriptions. The manuscripts were acquired individually over many decades.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Catalogue Arabic Manuscripts Introduction to the Arabic Manuscripts A Geography B Language and Lexicography C Literature: Poetry D Literature: Prose E Qurʾān F Tafsīr G Islām: Other (Ḥadīth, ʿAqāʾid, Fiqh, Fatwā, Eschatology, Prayer, etc.) H Sufism I Druze J Ethics K Encyclopedic; Sciences and Pseudosciences; Medicine; Mixed L Ijāza M Calligraphy N Persian Philology Persian Manuscripts Introduction to the Persian Manuscripts A History B Literature C Islam; Religion D Ethics E Language, Lexicography, and Prosody F Encyclopedia G Astrology H Document I Addendum: [Majmūʿa] Bibliography and Sigla Arabic Manuscripts: Author Index Arabic Manuscripts: Title Index Concordance of Arabic Manuscripts Persian Manuscripts: Author Index Persian Manuscripts: Title Index Concordance of Persian Manuscripts

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Book SynopsisIn The Second Canonization of the Qurʾān, Nasser studies the transmission and reception of the Qurʾānic text and its variant readings through the work of Ibn Mujāhid (d. 324/936), the founder of the system of the Seven Eponymous Readings of the Qurʾān. The overarching project aims to track and study the scrupulous revisions the Qurʾān underwent, in its recited, oral form, through the 1,400-year journey towards a final, static, and systematized text. For the very first time, the book offers a complete and detailed documentation of all the variant readings of the Qurʾān as recorded by Ibn Mujāhid. A comprehensive audio recording accompanies the book, with more than 3,500 audio files of Qurʾānic recitations of variant readings.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword Chapter 1: Preliminaries. The Second Canonization of the Qurʾān Chapter 2: Survival of the fittest 2.1: The Irregular readings of the Canonical Readings 2.2: Sixty-Six Problematic Transmissions in Ibn Mujāhid’s Kitāb al-Sabʿa Chapter 3: Ḥadīth and Qurʾān rijāl criticism Chapter 4: Orality revisited. The Written Transmission of Qirāʾāt 4.1: The Regional Codices 4.2: Early different forms of Qirāʾāt transmission Chapter 5: The Nature of the Qurʾānic variants 5.1: Standardization of Arabic and the Qurʾānic text through the principles of Qurʾānic recitation (uṣūl al-Qirāʾa) 5.2: The individual variants (farsh) of the Qurʾān Conclusion and future research Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIslam at 250: Studies in Memory of G.H.A. Juynboll is a collection of original articles on the state of Islamic sciences and Arabic culture in the early phases of their crystallization. It covers a wide range of intellectual activity in the first three centuries of Islam, such as the study of ḥadīth, the Qurʾān, Arabic language and literature, and history. Individually and taken together, the articles provide important new insights and make an important contribution to scholarship on early Islam. The authors, whose work reflects an affinity with Juynboll's research interests, are all experts in their fields. Pointing to the importance of interdisciplinary approaches and signalling lacunae, their contributions show how scholarship has advanced since Juynboll's days. Contributors: Camilla Adang, Monique Bernards, Léon Buskens, Ahmed El Shamsy, Maribel Fierro, Aisha Geissinger, Geert Jan van Gelder, Claude Gilliot, Robert Gleave, Asma Hilali, Michael Lecker, Scott Lucas, Christopher Melchert, Pavel Pavlovitch, Petra M. Sijpesteijn, Roberto Tottoli, and Peter Webb.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Notes on Transliteration, Names and Dates Islamic Studies as a Legacy: Remembering Gautier Juynboll  Léon Buskens Bibliography of G.H.A. Juynboll Introduction  Petra M. Sijpesteijn and Camilla Adang Part 1 Scholary Traditions and Networks 1 Ibn Abī Isḥāq (d. ca. 125/743) and His Scholarly Network  Monique Bernards 2 The Maghreb and Al-Andalus at 250 H: Rulers, Scholars and Their Works  Maribel Fierro 3 Muslim Tradition: Theory vs Usage. The Definition (ḥadd) and the Usage (istiʿmāl) in Sunnī Hadith Science in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries CE  Asma Hilali 4 The Theory and Practice of Hadith Criticism in the Mid-ninth Century  Christopher Melchert 5 Juynboll, al-Zuhrī, and al-Kitāb: About the Historicity of Transmission below the Common Link Level  Pavel Pavlovitch Part 2 Creating the Canon 6 Muck and Brass: The Context for Analysing Early Imāmī Legal Doctrine  Robert Gleave 7 When Did Ibn Isḥāq Compose His maghāzī?  Michael Lecker 8 Ibn Ḥanbal’s Reconstruction of the Ṣaḥīfa of ʿAmr b. Shuʿayb: A Preliminary Assessment  Scott Lucas Part 3 Contexts of Hadith Creation and Transmission 9 The Curious Case of Early Muslim Hair Dyeing  Ahmed El Shamsy 10 “Will you not Teach ruqyat al-namla to This (Woman) …?”: Notes on a Hadith’s Historical Uncertainties and Its Role in Translations of Muḥammad  Aisha Geissinger 11 Cry me a Jāhiliyya: Muslim Reconstructions of Pre-Islamic Arabian Culture—A Case Study  Peter Webb Part 4 Terminology and Definitions 12 Hadith as Adab: Ibn Qutayba’s Chapter on Hadith in His ʿUyūn al-Akhbār  Geert Jan van Gelder 13 Étymologie et monoprophétisme: Réflexions sur les ḥanīfs du Coran entre mythe et histoire  Claude Gilliot 14 Gautier H.A. Juynboll, ḥaḍīth and ḥadīth-related Technical Terminology: khabar in Western Studies and Early Islamic Literature  Roberto Tottoli Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Semantics of Qurʾanic Language: al-Āḫira, Ghassan el Masri offers a semantic study of the concept al-āḫira ‘the End’ in the Qurʾān. The study is prefaced with a detailed account of the late antique concept of etymologia (Semantic Etymology). In his work, he demonstrates the necessity of this concept for appreciating the Qurʾān’s rhetorical strategies for claiming discursive authority in the Abrahamic theological tradition. The author applies the etymological tool to his investigation of the theological significance of al-āḫira, and concludes that the concept is polysemous, and tolerates a large variety of interpretations. The work is unique in that it draws extensively on Biblical material and presents a plethora of pre-Islamic poetry verses in the analysis of the concept.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Etymology, Historic and Semantic 3. Arabian Terms and Notions 4. Time between Beginning and End 5. Biblical Vocabulary 6. The Qurʾanic Shifts 7. The Middle Meccan Period 8. The Late Meccan Period 9. The Medinan Developments 10. Conclusion Appendix – Occurrences of the Root ʾ-ḫ-r and their Correlates Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Revelation in the Qur’an Simon P. Loynes presents a semantic study of the Arabic roots n-z-l and w-ḥ-y in order to elucidate the modalities of revelation in the Qur’an. Through an exhaustive analysis of their occurrences in the Qur’an, and with reference to pre-Islamic poetry, Loynes argues that the two roots represent distinct occurrences, with the former concerned with spatial events and the latter with communicative. This has significant consequences for understanding the Qur’an’s unique concept of revelation and how this is both in concord and at variance with earlier religious traditions.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Note on Transliteration, Conventions, and Abbreviations Introduction  1 The Roots n-z-l and w-ḥ-y in Previous Scholarship  2 Overall Approach of the Study 1 Divine Sending Down (tanzīl) I: Actors, Spatiality, and Interaction  1 Overview of the Root n-z-l  2 Spatial Implications of the Root n-z-l and the Author of the Act  3 The Divine Sending Down of Non-revelatory Things 2 Divine Sending Down (tanzīl) II: The Revelatory Message  1 The Celestial Scripture  2 The Divine Sending Down of the Celestial Scripture  3 The Relationship of the Celestial Scripture to the Qur’anic Revelations  4 The Primary Celestial Event 3 God’s Esoteric Communication (waḥy)  1 The Root w-ḥ-y in Pre-Islamic Poetry  2 The Root w-ḥ-y in the Qur’an  3 Adopting a Translation for the Root w-ḥ-y 4 The Chronological Distribution and Literary Contexts of the Roots n-z-l and w-ḥ-y  1 The Chronological Distribution of the Roots n-z-l and w-ḥ-y  2 Form-Critical Analysis of the Roots n-z-l and w-ḥ-y  3 Addressing the Chronological Distribution of the Roots 5 The Principal Rhetorical Functions of Divine Sending Down and Divine Communication  1 The Principal Rhetorical Function of Divine Sending Down  2 The Principal Rhetorical Function of Divine Communication  3 The Dynamic Nature of the Qur’an’s Self-Referentiality 6 The Qur’anic Concept of Revelation  1 From Divine Sending Down (tanzīl) to Divine Communication (waḥy)  2 Implications of the Study Appendix 1: Verses with the Root n-z-l Classified according to Formal Type Appendix 2: Verses with the Root w-ḥ-y Classified according to Formal Type Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisContemporary psychology is highly influenced by positivism and scientific naturalism. Psychological studies make efforts to control the variables and provide operational definitions of subjective constructs in order to reach the most concrete conclusions. Such efforts are admirable in natural sciences since they have led to a better life. But, this worldview has deprived contemporary psychology of more qualitative sources of knowledge like waḥy (revelation). The present book introduces Islamic psychology as a paradigm, which can apply waḥy knowledge and consider religious/spiritual dimensions of humans in scientific exploration. The first part discusses the possibility, foundations, and characteristics of Islamic psychology. The second part introduces research methodology in Islamic psychology. The third part reviews the Quranic theory of personality and highlights the concept of shakeleh. Finally, the fourth part presents the theories and methods of religious psychotherapy in the Islamic tradition. Each part provides introductory content for readers interested in Islamic psychology.Table of ContentsForeword Preface Abstract Keywords  1 Possibility, Foundations, and Characteristics of Islamic Psychology  2 Research Methodology in Islamic Psychology  3 Personality  4 Mental Disorders and Psychotherapy  Acknowledgments  References

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Book SynopsisThe Qur’anic surahs and passages that are customarily taken to postdate Muhammad’s emigration to Medina occupy a key position in the formative period of Islam: they fundamentally shaped later convictions about Muhammad’s paradigmatic authority and universal missionary remit; they constitute an important basis for Islam’s development into a religion with a strong legal focus; and they demarcate the Qur’anic community from Judaism and Christianity. The volume exemplifies a rich array of approaches to the challenges posed by this part of the Qur’an, including its distinctive literary and doctrinal features, its relationship to other late antique traditions, and the question of oral composition. Contributors are Karen Bauer, Saqib Hussain, Marianna Klar, Joseph E. Lowry, Angelika Neuwirth, Andrew J. O’Connor, Cecilia Palombo, Nora K. Schmid, Nicolai Sinai, Devin J. Stewart, Gabriel S. Reynolds, Neal Robinson and Holger Zellentin.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Introduction  Nicolai Sinai Part 1 Literary Features of the Medinan Qurʾan 1 Towards a Compositional Grammar of the Medinan Suras  Nicolai Sinai 2 Lexical Layers vs Structural Paradigms in the Opening of Sūrat al-Baqara: Typically Medinan Structures in Q 2, Q 3, and Some Shorter Medinan Compositions  Marianna Klar 3 Formulae and Repetition in the Medinan Qurʾan: The Story of the Golden Calf between Meccan and Medinan Suras  Cecilia Palombo 4 Interrogative Rhetoric and Deliberative Discourse in the Medinan Suras  Nora K. Schmid 5 Vocatives in the Qurʾan and the Framing of Prophetic Proclamations  Devin J. Stewart Part 2 Ritual, Prophetology, and Law: Some Medinan Themes 6 The Qibla of Muhammad’s Community Reconsidered  Angelika Neuwirth 7 Obeying God and His Messenger: Medinan Prophetology in the Meccan Qurʾan?  Andrew J. O’Connor 8 Law in the Medinan Qurʾan: The Case of Biblical Incest Law and Its Qurʾanic Reiteration  Holger Zellentin Part 3 Studies of Individual Suras 9 The Dynamics of Sūrat Āl ʿImrān (Q 3)  Neal Robinson 10 A Guide to the Legal Material in Sūrat al-Nisāʾ (Q 4)  Joseph E. Lowry 11 Emotive Rhetoric, Plot, and Persuasion in a Jihād Surah (Q 8 al-Anfāl)  Karen Bauer 12 Intratextuality, Doublets, and Orality in the Qurʾan, with Attention to Suras 61 and 66  Gabriel S. Reynolds 13 Q 63 (Sūrat al-Munāfiqūn): A Text-Critical and Structural Analysis  Saqib Hussain Index

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Book Synopsis‘Alī, son of Abī Ṭālib, Muhammad’s son-in-law and cousin, is the only Companion of the Prophet who has remained to this day the object of fervent devotion of hundreds of millions of followers in the lands of Islam, especially in the East. Based on a detailed analysis of several categories of sources, this book demonstrates that Shi‘ism is the religion of the Imam, of the Master of Wisdom, just like Christianity is that of Christ, and that ‘Alī is the first Master and Imam par excellence. Shi‘ism can therefore be defined, in its most specific religious aspects, as the absolute faith in ‘Alī: the divine Man, the most perfect manifestation of God’s attributes, simultaneously spiritual refuge, model and horizon. With contributions by Orkhan Mir-Kasimov & Mathieu Terrier Translated from French by Francisco José Luis & Anthony GledhillTable of ContentsNotice to the Reader XI Transcription SystemII AcknowledgementsII AbbreviationsIV Introduction Part 1: Singularities of ʿ⁠Alī 1 ʿ⁠Alī and the Quran  1 Introduction  2 ʿ⁠Alī the Master of Hermeneutics  3 Quranic Allusions to ʿ⁠Alī  4 The Explicit Mentions of ʿ⁠Alī in the Quran  5 The Double Nature of ʿ⁠Alī and His Holiness  6 Roots, Extensions and Questions on the Origins: ʿ⁠Alī and Christ 2 Muḥammad the Paraclete and ʿ⁠Alī the Messiah  1 The End of the World in the Quran and the Hadith  2 Remarks on the Religious Environment of Muḥammad  3 The Coming of the Saviour  4 Jesus and ʿ⁠Alī  5 Rewriting of History and Fabrication of a New Collective Memory 3 Reflections on the Expression dīn ʿ⁠Alī: The Origins of the Shiʿi Faith  1 Dīn ʿ⁠Alī in the Works of the Historiographers  2 The Uniqueness of ʿ⁠Alī  3 Themes Concerning ʿ⁠Alī and the Alids  4 The Basis of the Religion of ʿ⁠Alī  5 Reactions and Consequences Part 2: Between Divinity and Humanity 4 Some Remarks on the Divinity of the Imam  1 Theophanic Being and Perfect Man  2 First Textual References  3 The Sermons of ʿ⁠Alī 5 The Five Spirits of the Divine Man  1 Shiʿi Traditions  2 “Prehistory”  3 Further Developments and Implications 6 “The Night of Qadr” (Quran, Surah 97) in Early Shiʿism  1 An Enigmatic Text  2 Shiʿi Perceptions  3 The Master of the Order 7 Tactical Dissimulation and Sealing of Prophecy  1 The Keeping of the Secret  2 Prophetic Abilities of the Imam  3 The Seal of Prophets  4 Epilogue Part 3: Spiritual Horizons 8 The Precious Pearl Attributed to Rajab al-Bursī: 500 Quranic Verses about ʿAlī  1 Brief Notes on al-Bursī and His Major Work Mashāriq al-anwār  2 Other Works and the Quranic Commentary “The Precious Pearl” (al-Durr al-thamīn)  3 Annotated Extracts from al-Durr al-thamīn  4 The Message of the ‘Personalized Commentaries’ 9 Icon and Contemplation: ʿAlī as the Face of God and Medium of Meditation  1 Portative Icons  2 “The Vision by the Heart”  3 “What Is Vejhe?”  4 Analysis of a Panel from the Vesel Collection  5 Icon Contemplation: Between Interpretation and Applications Epilogue Appendix 1: Divine Knowledge and Messianic Action: The Figure of ʿAlī in Mystical and Messianic Circles (5th/11th-10th/16th Centuries), by Orkhan Mir-Kasimov Appendix 2: The Presence of ʿAlī in Islamic Philosophy, by Mathieu Terrier Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume is a collection of essays on transregional aspects of Malay-Indonesian Islam and Islamic Studies, based on Peter G. Riddell’s broad interest and expertise. Particular attention is paid to rare manuscripts, unique inscriptions, Qurʾān commentaries and translations, textbooks, and personal and public archives. This book invites readers to reconstruct the ways in which Malay-Indonesian Islam and Islamic studies have been structured. Contributors are Khairudin Aljunied, Majid Daneshgar, R. Michael Feener, Annabel Teh Gallop, Mulaika Hijjas, Andrew Peacock, Johanna Pink, Gregorius Dwi Kuswanta, Michael Laffan, Han Hsien Liew, Julian Millie, Ervan Nurtawab, Masykur Syafruddin, Edwin P. Wieringa and Farouk Yahya.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Maps Notes on Contributors Introduction: Peter G. Riddell’s Contribution to Malay-Indonesian Islamic Studies  Majid Daneshgar and Ervan Nurtawab Part 1 Manuscripts and Inscriptions 1 Qurʾān Manuscripts from Southeast Asia in British Collections  Annabel T. Gallop 2 Arabic Texts in Buton in the Light of the La Ode Zaenu Manuscript Collection  Andrew Peacock 3 A 15th-century Persian Inscription from Bireuen, Aceh: An Early ‘Flash’ of Sufism before Fansuri in Southeast Asia  Majid Daneshgar, Gregorius Dwi Kuswanta, Masykur Syafruddin and R. Michael Feener Part 2 Qurʾānic Commentaries, Translation and Theological Concepts 4 Eight Shades of Ibn Kathīr: The Afterlives of a Premodern Qurʾānic Commentary in Contemporary Indonesian Translations  Johanna Pink 5 An Unfaithful Translation for the Faithful: Indonesian Islamic Gatekeepers on the Free Poetic Acehnese Translation of the Qurʾān by Teungku Haji Mahjiddin Jusuf (1918–1994)  Edwin P. Wieringa 6 An Old Malay Manuscript of Tafsīr and Tajwīd: Formative Islamic Sciences in Nusantara  Majid Daneshgar 7 Navigating Anthropomorphism in Malay Islam: Tarjumān al-Mustafīd’s Treatment of the Bodily Attributes of God  Han Hsien Liew 8 Talismans with the Names of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus/Aṣḥāb al-Kahf in Muslim Southeast Asia  Farouk Yahya Part 3 Critical Reading of Identity and Culture 9 Is Jawi Islamic?  Mulaika Hijjas 10 Reason and Rationality in Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia: Harun Nasution’s Dynamic Interventions  Khairudin Aljunied 11 Playthings of Destiny: Raden Mas Kareta, His Javanese Father and African Son  Michael Laffan 12 An Islamic Paratheater: Ritual Embodiment of Saintly Narratives  Julian Millie Peter G. Riddell: Scholarly Publications Index

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