{"product_id":"light-upon-light-essays-in-islamic-thought-and-history-in-honor-of-gerhard-bowering-9789004409941","title":"Light upon Light: Essays in Islamic Thought and History in Honor of Gerhard Bowering","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLight 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 \u0026amp; Alexander Treiger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210781843799,"sku":"9789004409941","price":125.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/light-upon-light-essays-in-islamic-thought-and-history-in-honor-of-gerhard-bowering-9789004409941","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}