The piety of learning : Islamic studies in honor of Stefan Reichmuth The Piety of learning Michael Kemper and Ralf Elger ʻIlm and adab revisited: knowledge transmission and character formation in Islamic Africa Rudiger Seesemann From the intellectual powerhouse of Ilorin (Nigeria): elegy in the work of Adam ʻAbdallah al Iluri (1917 1992) Amidu Olalekan Sanni assisted by Yunus Alade Salman The Khadimis of Konya: the rise of a scholarly family from the Ottoman periphery Yasar Sarikaya Moral education in Central Asia 19th 21st centuries: the foundations for Sufi Jadid Soviet National and Islamist ethics Anke von Kugelgen The small world of Aḥmad al Ḥawi (1761 1825) an Egyptian Khalwati Shaykh Catherine Mayeur Jaouen Abu l Huda al Sayyadi and ḥadith Thomas Eich Sayfallah Qaḍi Bashlarov: Sufi networks between the North Caucasus and the Volga Urals Shamil Shikhaliev and Michael Kemper Against Leviathan: on the ethics of Islamic poetry in Soviet Russia Alfrid K. Bustanov Blessing and curse in the Promised Land : Jonas Kortes travels in the Ottoman Empire 1737 1739 Ralf Elger Omer Pasha Latas and the Ottoman reform policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1850 1851) Markus Koller The pilgrims tale as a means of self rromotion: Muḥammad Rashid Riḍas journey to the Ḥijaz (1916) Rainer Brunner Scholarly exchange and trade: Muḥammad Ḥusayn Naʼif and his letters to Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje Ulrike Freitag Rescuing the Tatar Muslim heritage in the Soviet Union: the Expedition diaries of Mirkasym A. Usmanov Diliara M. Usmanova Islamic theological studies in Germany: a discipline in the making Bekim Agai and Armina Omerika Stefan Reichmuths wanderings in Arabicized and Islamized Yorubaland Razaq Deremi Abubakre