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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
