The Islamic scholarly tradition
Subtitle: studies in history, law, and thought in honor of Professor Michael Allan Cook
By: edited by Asad Q. Ahmed, Behnam Sadeghi, and Michael Bonner
Series: Islamic history and civilization. Studies and texts -- v. 83; Islamic history and civilization -- v. 83.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9789004194359
Subjects: Islamic civilization; History; Islam; Islamic law
Description: The volume contains highly original articles on Islamic history, law, and thought, each either proposing new hypotheses or readjusting existing ones. The contributions range from studies in the formulation of the pre-Islamic Arabian calendar to notes on the "blood-money group" in Islamic law, and to transformations in Arabic logic in the post-Avicennan period. Prepared by former students of Michael A. Cook, to whom this volume is dedicated, these studies not only shed new light on the development of the Islamic scholarly tradition from various perspectives, but together they also represent the honoree's vast, profound, and continuing impact on the field. This collection of highly empirical articles is intended for scholars and students specializing in various subfields within Islamic Studies. -- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Studies in early Islamic history; title: Studies in early modern and modern Islamic history; title: Juridical and intellectual history; title: Reinterpretations and transformations.