The Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning: Studies Presented to Wadad Kadi

696 Pages·2015·3.15 MB·English

by  Maurice A. Pomerantz

TheHeritageofArabo-IslamicLearning
Islamic History
and Civilization
studies and texts
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SebastianGünther
WadadKadi
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The Heritage of
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StudiesPresentedtoWadadKadi
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AramA.Shahin
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Contents
Acknowledgements xi
TheHeritageofArabo-IslamicLearning xii
Prof.WadadKadi:ALifeofLearningandTeaching xv
BibliographyWadadKadi(Wadādal-Qāḍī) xxviii
WorksDedicatedtoWadadKadi xxxix
NotesonContributors xl
part 1
History,Institutions,andtheUseofDocumentarySources
1 TheMeccanPrisonofʿAbdallāhb.al-ZubayrandtheImprisonmentof
Muḥammadb.al-Ḥanafiyya 3
SeanW.Anthony
2 FragmentsofThreeUmayyadOfficialDocuments 28
FredM.Donner
3 SingleIsnādsorRiwāyas?QuotedBooksinIbnʿAsākir’sTarjamaof
Tamīmal-Dārī 42
JensScheiner
4 FriendshipintheServiceofGovernance:Makārimal-Akhlāqin
AbbasidPoliticalCulture 73
PaulL.Heck
5 Prinzen,Prinzessinnen,KonkubinenundEunuchenamfatimidischen
Hof 91
HeinzHalm
6 ANewLatin-ArabicDocumentfromNormanSicily(November595
h/1198ce) 111
NadiaJamilandJeremyJohns
viii contents
part 2
Religion,Law,andIslamicThought
7 TheRhetoricalQurʾānorOralityasaTheologumenon 169
AngelikaNeuwirth
8 The“ShearingofForelocks”asaPenitentialRite 191
MarionHolmesKatz
9 AuthorityinIbnAbīZaydal-Qayrawānī’sKitābal-nawādir
wa-l-ziyādātʿalāmāfīl-Mudawwanaminghayrihāminal-ummahāt:
“TheChapterofJudgments”(Kitābal-aqḍiya) 207
MohammadFadel
10 ASegmentoftheGenealogyofSunniḤadīthCriticism:The
MysteriousRelationshipbetweenal-Khaṭībal-Baghdādīandal-Ḥākim
al-Naysābūrī 227
JonathanBrown
11 Al-Ḥākimal-NaysābūrīandtheCompanionsoftheProphet:An
OriginalSunnīVoiceintheShīʿīCentury 236
ScottC.Lucas
12 IbnRushdandThomasAquinasonEducation 250
SebastianGünther
13 TeachingtheLearned:Jalālal-Dīnal-Dawānī’sIjāzatoMuʾayyadzāda
ʿAbdal-RaḥmānEfendiandtheCirculationofKnowledgebetween
FārsandtheOttomanEmpireattheTurnoftheSixteenth
Century 284
JudithPfeiffer
14 ScholarsinNetworks:ʿAbdal-Ghanīal-NābulusīandHisTravels 333
JohnO.Voll
15 RhetoricsofRevival:al-GhazālīandHisModernHeirs 352
KennethGarden
contents ix
part 3
Language,Literature,andHeritage
16 GrammariansontheAfʿālal-Muqāraba:StepsintheSourcestowards
aSubdivisionofOperants 373
RamziBaalbaki
17 ReflectionsontheLivesandDeathsofTwoUmayyadPoets:Laylā
al-AkhyaliyyaandTawbab.al-Ḥumayyir 398
AramA.Shahin
18 LiteratureandThought:Re-readingal-Tawḥīdī’sTranscriptionofthe
DebatebetweenLogicandGrammar 444
Wen-chinOuyang
19 ThePlayofGenre:AMaqāmaof“EaseafterHardship”fromthe
Eighth/FourteenthCenturyandItsLiteraryContext 461
MauriceA.Pomerantz
20 What’sinaMamlukPicture?TheHallofPortraitureattheCairo
CitadelRemembered 483
LiGuo
21 InDefenseoftheUseofQurʾāninAdab:IbnAbīl-Luṭf’sRafʿal-iltibās
ʿanmunkiral-iqtibās 498
BilalOrfali
22 ModesofExistenceofthePoetryintheArabianNights 528
WolfhartHeinrichs
23 ModernArabicLiteratureandIslam 539
StefanWild
24 AbrahamandtheSacrificialSon:TranstextualStrategiesinJosé
Saramago’sTheGospelAccordingtoJesusChristandEliasKhoury’sAs
ThoughSheWereSleeping 554
MaherJarrar
x contents
25 TheIdeologicalandEpistemological:ContemporaryReadingsin
Arabo-IslamicClassicalHeritage(Turāth) 599
Riḍwānal-Sayyid(TranslatedbyEmanMorsi)
IndexofArabicTerms 633
IndexofProperNouns 640