The Arabo-Islamic heritage of the Islam is among the richest, most diverse, and longest-lasting literary traditions in the world. Born from a culture and religion that valued teaching, Arabo-Islamic learning spread from the seventh century and has had a lasting impact until the present.In The Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning leading scholars around the world present twenty-five studies explore diverse areas of Arabo-Islamic heritage in honor of a renowned scholar and teacher, Dr. Wadad A. Kadi (Prof. Emerita, University of Chicago). The volume includes contributions in three main areas: History, Institutions, and the Use of Documentary Sources; Religion, Law, and Islamic Thought; Language, Literature, and Heritage which reflect Prof. Kadi's contributions to the field.
Contributors:Sean W. Anthony; Ramzi Baalbaki; Jonathan A.C. Brown; Fred M. Donner; Mohammad Fadel; Kenneth Garden; Sebastian Guenther; Li Guo; Heinz Halm; Paul L. Heck; Nadia Jami; Jeremy Johns; Maher Jarrar; Marion Holmes Katz; Scott C. Lucas; Angelika Neuwirth; Bilal Orfali; Wen-chin Ouyang; Judith Pfeiffer; Maurice A. Pomerantz; Ri?wan al-Sayyid ; Aram A. Shahin; Jens Scheiner; John O. Voll; Stefan Wild.
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Maurice A . Pomerantz, Ph.D. (2010), University of Chicago, is Assistant Professor of Literature at New York University Abu Dhabi.
He has published on Abbasid literature and literary culture of the fourth/tenth century. He is currently writing on the Maqamat of Badi? al-Zaman al-Hamadhani and the history and circulation of the maqama genre.
Aram A. Shahin, Ph. D. (2009), University of Chicago, is Assistant Professor of Arabic at James Madison University. He has published on Islamic political thought and Arabic literature. He is currently working on articles on the development of the institution of the caliphate and of concepts of political legitimacy.
Acknowledgements..........................................................................................................
The Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning.............................................................................
Prof. Wadad Kadi: A Life of Learning and Teaching....................................................
Bibliography Wadad Kadi (Wadad al-Qa?i)...................................................................
Works Dedicated to Wadad Kadi......................................................................................
HISTORY, INSTITUTIONS, AND THE USE OF DOCUMENTARY SOURCES
The Meccan Prison of ?Abdallah b. al-Zubayr and the Imprisonment of Mu?ammad b. al-?anafiyya..........................................................................................3
Sean W. Anthony
Fragments of Three Umayyad Official Documents ..................................................30
Fred M. Donner
Single Isnads or Riwayas? Quoted Books in Ibn ?Asakir?s Tarjama of Tamim
al-Dari................................................................................................................................48
Jens Scheiner
Friendship in the Service of Governance: Makarim al-Akhlaq in Abbasid
Political Culture ...............................................................................................................81
Paul L. Heck
Prinzen, Prinzessinnen, Konkubinen und Eunuchen am fatimidischen Hof.......101
Heinz Halm
A New Latin-Arabic Document from Norman Sicily (November 595 H/1198 CE)..123
Nadia Jamil and Jeremy Johns
RELIGION, LAW, AND ISLAMIC THOUGHT
The Rhetorical Qur?an or Orality as a Theologumenon.............................................189
Angelika Neuwirth
The "Shearing of Forelocks" as a Penitential Rite.........................................................212
Marion Holmes Katz
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-aq?iya).........................................228
Mohammad Fadel
A Segment of the Genealogy of Sunni ?adith Criticism: The Mysterious
Relationship between al-Kha?ib al-Baghdadi and al-?akim al-Naysaburi............249
Jonathan Brown
Al-?akim al-Naysaburi and the Companions of the Prophet: An Original
Sunni Voice in the Shi?i Century....................................................................................258
Scott C. Lucas
Ibn Rushd and Thomas Aquinas on Education...........................................................272
Sebastian Guenther
Teaching the Learned: Jalal al-Din al-Dawani's Ijaza to Mu?ayyadzada
?Abd al-Ra?man Efendi and the Circulation of Knowledge between Fars
and the Ottoman Empire at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century..............................306
Judith Pfeiffer
Scholars in Networks: ?Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi and His Travels............................360
John O. Voll
Rhetorics of Revival: al-Ghazali and His Modern Heirs...............................................381
Kenneth Garden
LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND HERITAGE
Grammarians on the Af?al al-Muqaraba: Steps in the Sources towards a Subdivision of Operants...............................................................................................................................405
Ramzi Baalbaki
Reflections on the Lives and Deaths of Two Umayyad Poets:
Layla al-Akhyaliyya and Tawba b. al-?umayyir..........................................................432
Aram A. Shahin
Literature and Thought: Re-reading al-Taw?idi's Transcription of the Debate
between Logic and Grammar..............................................................................................473
Wen-chin Ouyang
The Play of Genre: A Maqama of "Ease after Hardship" from the Eighth/Fourteenth
Century and Its Literary Context........................................................................................492
Maurice A. Pomerantz
What's in a Mamluk Picture? The Hall of Portraiture at the Cairo
Citadel Remembered.............................................................................................................518
Li Guo
In Defense of the Use of Qur?an in Adab:
Ibn Abi l-Lu?f's Raf? al-iltibas ?an munkir al-iqtibas...............................................................535
Bilal Orfali
Modes of Existence of the Poetry in the Arabian Nights............................................564
Wolfhart Heinrichs
Modern Arabic Literature and Islam...............................................................................576
Stefan Wild
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......................................................................................................................593
Maher Jarrar
The Ideological and Epistemological: Contemporary Readings in Arabo-Islamic Classical Heritage (Turath)..................................................................................................................640
Ri?wan al-Sayyid (Translated by Eman Morsi)
Index of Arabic Terms
Index of Proper Nouns
Notes on the Contributors
