{"product_id":"arabic-humanities-islamic-thought-essays-in-honor-of-everett-k-rowson-9789004343245","title":"Arabic Humanities, Islamic Thought: Essays in Honor of Everett K. Rowson","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210702807383,"sku":"9789004343245","price":156.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/arabic-humanities-islamic-thought-essays-in-honor-of-everett-k-rowson-9789004343245","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}