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Book SynopsisLight upon Light: Essays in Islamic Thought and History in Honor of Gerhard Bowering brings together studies that explore the richness of Islamic intellectual life in the pre-modern period. Leading scholars around the world present nineteen studies that explore diverse areas of Islamic Studies, in honor of a renowned scholar and teacher: Professor Dr. Gerhard Bowering (Yale University). The volume includes contributions in four main areas: (1) Quran and Early Islam; (2) Sufism, Shiʿism, and Esotericism; (3) Philosophy; (4) Literature and Culture. These areas reflect the enormous breadth of Professor Bowering’s contributions to the field over a lifetime of scholarship, teaching, and mentoring. Contributors: Hussein Ali Abdulsater, Mushegh Asatryan, Shahzad Bashir, Jonathan Brockopp, Yousef Casewit, Jamal Elias, Janis Esots, Li Guo, Matthew Ingalls, Tariq Jaffer, Mareike Koertner, Joseph Lumbard, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Mahan Mirza, Bilal Orfali, Gabriel Reynolds, Nada Saab, Amina Steinfels & Alexander Treiger.
Trade Review“It is an impressive collection of essays that pays real tribute to a great scholar and teacher.” Sotiris S. Livas, Ionian University in: Journal of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 30 (2021).
Table of ContentsPreface Publications by Gerhard Bowering Notes on Contributors PART 1 Quran and Early Islam Scholarship and Folklore? A Comparison of the Earliest Sources: ʿUrwa b. al-Zubayr and Wahb b. al-Munabbih (Mareike Koertner) The Rise of Islam in a Judeo-Christian Context (Jonathan Brockopp) Biblical Turns of Phrase in the Quran (Gabriel Said Reynolds) The Interpretation of the Covenant Verse in Classical Imami Theology (Hussein Ali Abdulsater) Kitāb intizāʿāt al-Qurʾān al-ʿaẓīm: A Compendium of Quranic Quotations Attributed to the Fatimid Secretary Abū l-Qāsim ʿAlī Ibn al-Ṣayrafī (d. 542/1147) (Bilal W. Orfali) PART 2 Sufism, Shi’ism, and Esotericism Risāla fī l-ṣifāt wa-ʿilm al-tawḥīd: A Sufī Treatise Attributed to Abū Saʿīd Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā al-Kharrāz (d. 286/899) (Nada Saab) Shiʿi Literature in the Late Ninth Century: Isḥāq al-Aḥmar al-Nakhaʿī (d. 286/899) and His Writings (Mushegh Asatryan) The Treatise on the Ascension (al-Risāla al-miʿrājiyya): Cosmology and Time in the Writings of Abū l-Ḥasan al-Shushtarī (d. 668/1269) (Yousef Casewit) The Image of Qalandar in the Dīvān-i Shams (Janis Esots) Pseudo-Shaykh Bahāʾī on the Supreme Name, a Safavid-Qajar Lettrist Classic (Matthew Melvin-Koushki) Sufism and Islamic Identity in Jalaluddin Rumi’s Anatolia (Jamal J. Elias) India as a Sufi Spacetime in the Work of Jamālī of Delhi (Shahzad Bashir) PART 3 Philosophy Knowledge on Display: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī's Universal Compendium (Amina M. Steinfels) Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Taxonomy of Extraordinary Acts (Tariq Jaffer) Believing Is Seeing: The Universe in the Eyes of al-Bīrūnī and Ibn Sīnā (Mahan Mirza) Al-Ghazālī’s Philosophical Soteriology (Alexander Treiger) Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī and the Art of Knowing (Joseph Lumbard) PART 4 Literature and Culture Religious Satire in the Maqāmāt of al-Hamadhānī (Matthew Ingalls) Doctrinal Anxiety and Social Reality regarding Music and Dance in Mamluk Cairo: Ibn al-Ḥājj on al-Samāʿ, To Sing or Not: The Case against Music (Li Guo) Index of Arabic and Persian Term Index of Proper Names
