The Lineaments of Islam: Studies in Honor of Fred McGraw Donner PDF
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The Lineaments of Islam Islamic History and Civilization Studies and Texts Editorial Board Sebastian Günther Wadad Kadi VOLUME 95 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.nl/ihc Cover illustration: Gold dinar struck under the Umayyad caliph ʿAbd al-Malik (685–705). Probably minted in Damascus, ca. 692–694. Obverse. Photo courtesy Penn Museum. Penn Museum Object #29-231-67/AnS #1002.1.107. The lineaments of Islam : studies in honor of Fred McGraw Donner / edited by Paul M. Cobb. p. cm. — (Islamic history and civilization ; v. 95) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISbn 978-90-04-21885-7 (hardback : alk. paper) — ISbn 978-90-04-23194-8 (e-book) 1. Islam—History. 2. Islam—Historiography. 3. Koran—Criticism, interpretation, etc. 4. Islamic law. I. Donner, Fred McGraw, 1945– II. Cobb, Paul M., 1967– bP25.L56 2012 297.09—dc23 2012015413 This publication has been typeset in the multilingual “brill” typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, IPA, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.nl/brill-typeface. ISSn 0929-2403 ISbn 978 90 04 21885 7 (hardback) ISbn 978 90 04 23194 8 (e-book) Copyright 2012 by Koninklijke brill nV, Leiden, The netherlands. Koninklijke brill nV incorporates the imprints brill, Global Oriental, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers and Martinus nijhoff Publishers. All rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke brill nV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. This book is printed on acid-free paper. For all our teachers COnTEnTS Acknowledgements ........................................................................................ xi List of Illustrations .......................................................................................... xiii List of Contributors ........................................................................................ xv Introduction: narratives of Fred McGraw Donner ............................... 1 Paul M. Cobb bibliography of the Works of Fred McGraw Donner .......................... 13 PART OnE HISTORY AnD SOCIETY Who was the Shepherd of Damascus? The Enigma of Jewish and Messianist Responses to the Islamic Conquests in Marwānid Syria and Mesopotomia ........................................................................... 21 Sean W. Anthony Political Anarchism, Dissent, and Marginal Groups in the Early ninth Century: The Ṣūfīs of the Muʿtazila Revisited ...................... 61 Hayrettin Yücesoy Scholars and Charlatans on the baghdad-Khurasan Circuit from the ninth to the Eleventh Centuries ................................................... 85 Jonathan A. C. Brown Were the Ismāʿīlī Assassins the First Suicide Attackers? An Examination of Their Recorded Assassinations ............................... 97 David Cook PART TWO HISTORIOGRAPHY The Identity Crisis of Abū bakra: Mawlā of the Prophet, or Polemical Tool? .......................................................................................... 121 Elizabeth Urban Writing the History of the futūḥ: The futūḥ-works by al-Azdī, Ibn Aʿtham, and al-Wāqidī ..................................................................... 151 Jens Scheiner viii contents In Defense of Muʿāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān: Treatises and Monographs on Muʿāwiya from the Eighth to the nineteenth Centuries ...................................................................................................... 177 Aram A. Shahin The Umayyads and ʿAbbāsids in Mujīr al-Dīn’s Fifteenth-Century History of Jerusalem and Hebron ......................................................... 209 Robert Schick PART THREE QURʾĀn, LAW, AnD nARRATIVE Reproducing Power: Qurʾānic Anthropogonies in Comparison ....... 235 Kathryn Kueny narratives of Villainy: Titus, nebuchadnezzar, and nimrod in the ḥadīth and midrash aggadah ................................................................. 261 Shari L. Lowin Qurʾānic Rhetoric in ninth-Century Muslim-byzantine Diplomacy: Al-Maʾ mūn’s Letter to Theophilus in 833 CE .................................... 297 Vanessa De Gifis Ibāḍī Fiqh Scholarship in Context ............................................................. 321 Brannon Wheeler The ḥadd Penalty for zinā: Symbol or Deterrent? Texts from the Early Sixteenth Century ........................................................................... 351 Marion Holmes Katz PART FOUR TEXTS AnD ARTIFACTS The Revolt of al-Ḥārith ibn Surayj and the Countermarking of Umayyad Dirhams in Early Eighth Century CE Khurāsān ............ 379 Stuart D. Sears The Riddle of Early Islamic Ascalon: Where is it and What does Coptic Glazed Ware Tell Us About it? ................................................ 407 Tracy Hoffman Ḥiṣn, Ribāṭ, Thaghr or Qaṣr? Semantics and Systems of Frontier Fortifications in the Early Islamic Period ........................................... 427 Asa Eger contents ix Descriptions of the Pharos of Alexandria in Islamic and Chinese Sources: Collective Memory and Textual Transmission ................ 457 Tasha Vorderstrasse Index ................................................................................................................... 483
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