Arabic Humanities, Islamic Thought: Essays in Honor of Everett K. RowsonJoseph E. Lowry, Shawkat M. Toorawa This volume brings together studies that explore the richness of the Arabic literary tradition and of Islamic intellectual life, from the beginnings of Islam to the present. The contributors cover an unusually wide range of subjects, including such topics as guile in the Quran, marriage in Islamic law, early esoterica, commentaries on al-Ḥarīrī’s Maqamāt, Hellenistic philosophy in Arabic, medieval music and song, scurrilous poetry, Arabic rhetoric, cursing, the modern social and legal history of the Middle East, al-Kharrat’s modernist project, and contemporary Islamic thought and responses to it. The volume’s range reflects the enormous breadth of Everett Rowson’s scholarship and his impact over a lifetime of publishing, editing, teaching, and mentoring in the many fields that constitute the Arabic humanities and Islamic thought. Contributors: Ali Humayun Akhtar, Thomas Bauer, Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt, Kevin van Bladel, Marilyn Booth, Michael Cooperson, Kenneth M. Cuno, Geert Jan van Gelder, Hala Halim, Lara Harb, David Hollenberg, Matthew L. Keegan, David Larsen, Joseph E. Lowry, Zainab Mahmood, Jon McGinnis, Jeannie Miller, John Nawas, Bilal Orfali, Alex Popovkin, Dwight F. Reynolds, Susan A. Spectorsky, Tara Stephan, Adam Talib, Sarra Tlili, Shawkat M. Toorawa, James Toth, Mark S. Wagner. |
Contents
The Quranic Word Rūḥ and
Its Misinterpretations | 1 |
Rereading Kayd in Sūrat Yūsuf | 22 |
3
Some Ḥanbalī Views on Secret Marriage | 35 |
A QuasiNuṣayrī Fragment on the Intellect in the Early Ismāʿīlī Treatise
Kitāb Ta ʾwīl ḥurūf almuʿjam | 50 |
ʿAlī ibn alJahm on His
DayLong Exposure at Nishapur | 67 |
Thresholds
and Idiom in alJāḥiẓ | 94 |
Ibn Dāwūd alIṣfahānīs
Chapter on Intermedial Poetry | 122 |
Madness and Poetry in
Arabic Literary History | 150 |
15 An Edition of AlHamadhānīs AlMaqāma
AlMawṣiliyya | 276 |
A Study of a
Classical Arabic Insult | 279 |
Interpreting Manuscript Variation in the Exordium
of AlḤarīrīs Maqāmāt | 295 |
Two Texts on Medieval
Dynamics in the Islamic World | 317 |
19 Extremely Beautiful and Extremely Long
AlQīrāṭīs Exuberant Letter from the Year 7611360 | 338 |
Political Culture and the Patronage of Science and
Philosophy in the FifteenthCentury Mediterranean | 361 |
21 Contextualizing Muḥammad ʿAbduhs Views on the
Family Marriage and Divorce | 375 |
Conduct Books
for Egypts Young ca 1912 | 393 |
9
Music for the Body Music for the Soul | 176 |
10
Zoroasters Many Languages | 190 |
11
Song and Punishment | 211 |
12
Fathers and Husbands | 233 |
Ancient Egypt through the Lensof Medieval Islamic Thought | 256 |
AlHamadhānīs Maqāma of Mosul | 271 |
Toward a Social Psychology ofInterCommunal Violence in Yemen | 416 |
Internationalist and Surrealist Resonances in Idwār AlKharrāṭs
Resistant Literary Modernity | 425 |
Islamic Development and the
Movement to Transform Egypt | 469 |
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