The heritage of Arabo-Islamic learning
Subtitle: studies presented to Wadad Kadi
By: edited by Maurice A. Pomerantz, Aram A. Shahin
Series: Islamic history and civilization -- v. 122
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004305908; 9789004307469
Subjects: Islamic civilization; Islamic learning and scholarship; Arabic literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Meccan prison of 'Abdallah b. al-Zubayr and the imprisonment of Muhammad b. al-Hanafiyya / Sean W. Anthony; title: Fragments of three Umayyad official documents / Fred M. Donner; title: Single isnads or riwayas quoted books in Ibn 'Asakir's tarjama of Tamim al-dari / Jens Scheiner; title: Friendship in the service of governance: makarim al-akhlaq in Abbasid political culture / Paul l. Heck; title: Prinzen, Prinzessinnen, Konkubinen und Eunuchen am fatimidischen Hof / Heinz Halm; title: A new Latin-Arabic document from Norman Sicily (November 595 h/1198; title: Ce) / Nadia Jamil and Jeremy Johns; title: Religion, law, and Islamic thought: The rhetorical Qur'an or orality as a theologumenon / Angelika Neuwirth; title: The "shearing of forelocks" as a penitential rite / Marion Holmes Katz; title: Authority in Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani's Kitab al-nawadir wa-l-ziyadat: 'Ala ma fi l-mudawwana min ghayriha min al-ummahat: the case of "the Chapter of judgments" (kitab al-aqdiya) / Mohammad Fadel; title: A segment of the genealogy of sunni hadith criticism: the mysterious relationship between al-Khatib al-Baghdadi and al-Hakim al-Naysaburi / Jonathan Brown; title: Al-hakim al-Naysaburi and the companions of the Prophet: an original Sunni voice in the Shi'i century / Scott C. Lucas; title: Ibn Rushd and Thomas Aquinas on education / Sebastian Gunther; title: Teaching the learned: Jalal al-Din al-Dawani's ijaza to mu'ayyadzada : 'Abd al-Rahman Efendi and the circulation of knowledge between Fars and the Ottoman empire at the turn of the sixteenth century / Judith Pfeiffer; title: Scholars in networks: 'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi and his travels / John O. Voll; title: Rhetorics of revival: al-Ghazali and his modern heirs / Kenneth Garden; title: Language, literature, and heritage; title: Grammarians on the af'al al-muqaraba: steps in the sources towards a subdivision of operants / Ramzi Baalbaki; title: Reflections on the lives and deaths of two Umayyad poets: Layla al-Akhyaliyya and Tawba b. al-Humayyir / Aram A. Shahin; title: Literature and thought: re-reading al-Tawhidi's transcription of the debate between logic and grammar / Wen-chin Ouyang; title: The play of genre: a maqama of "ease after hardship" from the eighth/fourteenth century and its literary context / Maurice A. Pomerantz; title: What's in a Mamluk picture? the hall of portraiture at the cairo Citadel remembered / Guo; title: In defense of the use of Qur'an in adab: Ibn Abi l-Lutf's raf' al-iltibas 'an munkir al-iqtibas / Bilal Orfali; title: Modes of existence of the poetry in the Arabian Nights / Wolfhart Heinrichs; title: Modern Arabic literature and Islam / Stefan Wild; title: Abraham and the sacrificial son: transtextual strategies in Jose Saramago's the gospel according to Jesus Christ and Elias Khoury's As though she were sleeping / Maher Jarrar; title: The ideological and epistemological: contemporary readings in Arabo-Islamic classical heritage (turath) / Ridwan al-Sayyid (translated by Eman Morsi).