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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together articles on various aspects of the intellectual and social histories of Islamicate societies and of the traditions and contexts that contributed to their formation and evolution. Written by leading scholars who span three generations and who cover such diverse fields as Late Antique Studies, Islamic Studies, Classics, and Jewish Studies, the volume is a testament to the breadth and to the sustained, deep impact of the corpus of the honoree, Professor Patricia Crone. Contributors are: David Abulafia, Asad Q. Ahmed, Karen Bauer, Michael Cooperson, Hannah Cotton, David M. Eisenberg, Khaled El-Rouayheb, Matthew S. Gordon, Gerald Hawting, Judith Herrin, Robert Hoyland, Bella Tendler Krieger, Margaret Larkin, Maria Mavroudi, Christopher Melchert, Pavel Pavlovitch, David Powers, Chase Robinson, Behnam Sadeghi, Adam Silverstein, Devin Stewart, Guy Stroumsa, D. G. Tor, Kevin van Bladel, David J. Wasserstein, Chris Wickam, Joseph Witztum, F. W. Zimmermann
Trade Review"Das Buch kommt zur rechten Zeit, denn es setzt Zeichen für die Beschäftigung mit frühislamischer Geschichte, die während der vergangenen vier Jahrzehnte, während Patricia Crones akademischer Tätigkeit und maßgeblich von ihr mitgeprägt, einen Aufschwung erlebt hat, vielleicht durch sie ganz neu ins Leben gerufen ist, wie Chase Robinson in einem abschließenden Kapitel feststellt („Crone and the End of Orientalism“). So ist diese Festschrift, abgesehen vom Wert ihrer Beiträge für sich, ein würdiges Dokument für die Lebensleistung einer der ganz großen Vertreterinnen der Islamwissenschaft im 20. und frühen 21. Jahrhundert". Lucian Reinfandt in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, vol. 106/2016.
Table of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction Behnam Sadeghi, Asad Q. Ahmed, Robert Hoyland, Adam Silverstein Variant Traditions, Relative Chronology and the Study of Intra-Quranic parallels Joseph Witztum The Earliest Attestation of the Dhimma of God and His Messenger and the Rediscovery of P. Nessana 77 (AH 60s/AD 680) Robert Hoyland with Appendix by Hannah Cotton Jewish Christianity and Islamic Origins Guy Stroumsa A Note on the Relationship Between Tafsīr and Documentary Evidence With Reference to Contracts of Marriage Karen Bauer Earnest Money’ and the Sources of Islamic Law Gerald Hawting and David Eisenberg A Bequest May Not Exceed One-Third’: An Isnād-cum-Matn Analysis – and Beyond Pavel Pavlovich and David Powers Basra and Kufa as the Earliest Centers of Islamic Legal Controversy Christopher Melchert God's Cleric: Al-Fuḍayl b. ʿIyāḍ and the Transition from Caliphal to Prophetic Sunna Deborah Tor Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn and the Politics of Deference Matthew Gordon Eighth-Century Indian Astronomy in the Two Cities of Peace Kevin van Bladel Greek Language and Education Under Early Islam Maria Mavroudi Kalām and the Greeks Fritz Zimmermann ‘Arabs’ and ‘Iranians’: The Uses of Ethnicity in the Early Abbasid Period Michael Cooperson The Poetics of Cultural Identity: Al-Mutanabbī among the Būyids Margaret Larkin Must God Tell Us the Truth? A Problem in Ash‘arī Theology Khaled El Rouayheb Administrators’ Time: The Social Memory of the Early Medieval State, East and West Chris Wickham An Eleventh-Century Justification of the Authority of Twelver Shiite Jurists Devin Stewart A Family Story: Ambiguities of Jewish Identity in Medieval Islam David Wasserstein What happened in al-Andalus: Minorities in al-Andalus and in Christian Spain David Abulafia The Samaritan Version of the Esther Story Adam Silverstein New Evidence for the Survival of Sexually Libertine Rites among some Nuṣayrī-ʿAlawīs of the Nineteenth Century Bella Tendler Crone and the End of Orientalism Chase Robinson Patricia Crone – A Brief Memoir Judith Herrin Tabula Gratulatoria Biographies
