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Book SynopsisThe Historian of Islam at Work is a volume in honor of Hugh N. Kennedy. It offers thirty contributions by three generations of prominent scholars in the field of pre-modern Middle Eastern studies, covering the many areas of Islamic historical inquiry in which Hugh Kennedy has been active throughout his career. Grouped around four major themes - Caliphate and power, economy and society, Abbasids, and frontiers and the others - the contributions deal with the history, archaeology, architecture and literature of the Middle East, North Africa and beyond, from the time of the Prophet until the fifteenth century.
Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Tabula Gratulatoria A Lifelong Passion for Islamic History Maaike van Berkel and Letizia Osti Bibliography of Hugh N. Kennedy Part 1 Caliphate and Power 1 A Ḥimyarite Restorationist Prophecy Michael Cook 2 Kinship, Dynasty and the Umayyads Andrew Marsham 3 He Reigned as Caliph; Then He Died: The Reigns of Caliphs Versified Geert Jan van Gelder 4 Versifying History in Abbasid Iraq: The Universal History in Verse of ʿAlī b. al-Jahm Harry Munt 5 How to Found an Islamic State: The Idrisids and the Rivals to the Caliphate in the Far Islamic West Corisande Fenwick 6 Rethinking “the Mamlūk State” with Ibn Khaldūn: “Mamlūkization” and ʿaṣabiyya in the Sultanate of Cairo Jo Van Steenbergen 7 Ibn Khaldūn and the Ḥafṣid Caliphate Allen Fromherz Part 2 Economy and Society 8 A Three-Centered System: Aleppo, Damascus, and Cairo in the Age of the Ayyubids R. Stephen Humphreys 9 Informal and Formal Trading Associations in Egypt and Ifrīqiya, 850–1150 Chris Wickham 10 Good Governance in Theory and Practice: Comparing Abū Yūsuf’s Kitāb al-Kharāj with Papyri Petra M. Sijpesteijn 11 A Matter of Trust: On Some Principles of Governance in the Letters of Qurra b. Sharīk Arietta Papacostantinou 12 Calculating the Population of Samarra Alastair Northedge 13 Flour for the Caliph: Watermills in the “Land behind Mosul” Cristina Tonghini 14 Bedouin, Bandits and Caliphal Disappearance: A Reappraisal of the Qarāmiṭa and Their Success in Arabia Peter Webb 15 Zinā and muḥṣanāt in the Quran Richard A. Kimber Part 3 Abbasids 16 Muslim Nostalgia: Longing for the Abbasid Past in the Mamluk Era Robert Irwin 17 The al-Mustanṣiriyya madrasa in Baghdad and Its Founder, al-Mustanṣir Carole Hillenbrand 18 Hārūn al-Rashīd in Premodern Arabic Literary Imaginary: Ideology of Monogamy, Harem Politics, and Court Intrigues Wen-Chin Ouyang 19 Representation of the Barmakids in Bodleian Manuscript Ouseley 217 and Other Monographs Pejman Firoozbakhsh and Arezou Azad 20 Eutychius of Alexandria Vindicated: Muslim Sources and Christian Arabic Historiography in the Early Islamic Empire Robert Hoyland 21 Bureaucrats on the Move: Messengers in Fourth/Tenth-Century Iraq Maaike van Berkel, Nadia Maria El Cheikh and Letizia Osti 22 Al-Ṭabarī’s Unacknowledged Debt to Ibn Abī Ṭāhir Ṭayfūr Sarah Bowen Savant 23 Heraqleh: A New Interpretation Andrew Petersen Part 4 Frontiers and the Others 24 The Interface between Byzantium and the Ilkhanids in Fourteenth-Century Book Painting Robert Hillenbrand 25 Exploring Europe through Medieval Islamic Folk Literature Niall Christie 26 The Lordship and Bishopric of Banyas in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (1126–1164) Alan V. Murray 27 Fortresses and Frontiers: Castles and Northern Syria in the Sultanate of Cairo Angus D. Stewart 28 The Sasanian Fort of Pānkān Balázs Major 29 Negotiating the North: Armenian Perspectives on the Conquest Era Tim Greenwood 30 New Palaeoenvironmental Evidence on the Possible Impact on Agriculture of Early Arab-Islamic Raiding Activity on Crete John F. Haldon Index
