The Historian of Islam at Work
Essays in Honor of Hugh N. Kennedy
Published on 16. September 2022
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Hardback
694 pages
978-90-04-52523-8 (ISBN)
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The Historian of Islam at Work is a volume in honor of Hugh N. Kennedy. It offers thirty contributions by three generations of prominent scholars in the field of pre-modern Middle Eastern studies, covering the many areas of Islamic historical inquiry in which Hugh Kennedy has been active throughout his career. Grouped around four major themes - Caliphate and power, economy and society, Abbasids, and frontiers and the others - the contributions deal with the history, archaeology, architecture and literature of the Middle East, North Africa and beyond, from the time of the Prophet until the fifteenth century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
73 farbige Abbildungen
73 Illustrations, color
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
1134 gr
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978-90-04-52523-8 (9789004525238)
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Maaike van Berkel is Professor of Medieval History at the Radboud University Nijmegen. Her research focuses on administration, communication, and court and urban history in the medieval Middle East.
Letizia Osti is Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Milan. She has published on classical Arabic prose and narrative techniques in biographical collections, historiography, literature, and intersections thereof.
Letizia Osti is Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Milan. She has published on classical Arabic prose and narrative techniques in biographical collections, historiography, literature, and intersections thereof.
Content
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Tabula Gratulatoria
A Lifelong Passion for Islamic History
?Maaike van Berkel and Letizia Osti
Bibliography of Hugh N. Kennedy
Part 1 Caliphate and Power
1 A ?imyarite Restorationist Prophecy
?Michael Cook
2 Kinship, Dynasty and the Umayyads
?Andrew Marsham
3 He Reigned as Caliph; Then He Died: The Reigns of Caliphs Versified
?Geert Jan van Gelder
4 Versifying History in Abbasid Iraq: The Universal History in Verse of ?Ali b. al-Jahm
?Harry Munt
5 How to Found an Islamic State: The Idrisids and the Rivals to the Caliphate in the Far Islamic West
?Corisande Fenwick
6 Rethinking "the Mamluk State" with Ibn Khaldun: "Mamlukization" and ?a?abiyya in the Sultanate of Cairo
?Jo Van Steenbergen
7 Ibn Khaldun and the ?af?id Caliphate
?Allen Fromherz
Part 2 Economy and Society
8 A Three-Centered System: Aleppo, Damascus, and Cairo in the Age of the Ayyubids
?R. Stephen Humphreys
9 Informal and Formal Trading Associations in Egypt and Ifriqiya, 850-1150
?Chris Wickham
10 Good Governance in Theory and Practice: Comparing Abu Yusuf's Kitab al-Kharaj with Papyri
?Petra M. Sijpesteijn
11 A Matter of Trust: On Some Principles of Governance in the Letters of Qurra b. Sharik
?Arietta Papacostantinou
12 Calculating the Population of Samarra
?Alastair Northedge
13 Flour for the Caliph: Watermills in the "Land behind Mosul"
?Cristina Tonghini
14 Bedouin, Bandits and Caliphal Disappearance: A Reappraisal of the Qarami?a and Their Success in Arabia
?Peter Webb
15 Zina and mu??anat in the Quran
?Richard A. Kimber
Part 3 Abbasids
16 Muslim Nostalgia: Longing for the Abbasid Past in the Mamluk Era
?Robert Irwin
17 The al-Mustan?iriyya madrasa in Baghdad and Its Founder, al-Mustan?ir
?Carole Hillenbrand
18 Harun al-Rashid in Premodern Arabic Literary Imaginary: Ideology of Monogamy, Harem Politics, and Court Intrigues
?Wen-Chin Ouyang
19 Representation of the Barmakids in Bodleian Manuscript Ouseley 217 and Other Monographs
?Pejman Firoozbakhsh and Arezou Azad
20 Eutychius of Alexandria Vindicated: Muslim Sources and Christian Arabic Historiography in the Early Islamic Empire
?Robert Hoyland
21 Bureaucrats on the Move: Messengers in Fourth/Tenth-Century Iraq
?Maaike van Berkel, Nadia Maria El Cheikh and Letizia Osti
22 Al-?abari's Unacknowledged Debt to Ibn Abi ?ahir ?ayfur
?Sarah Bowen Savant
23 Heraqleh: A New Interpretation
?Andrew Petersen
Part 4 Frontiers and the Others
24 The Interface between Byzantium and the Ilkhanids in Fourteenth-Century Book Painting
?Robert Hillenbrand
25 Exploring Europe through Medieval Islamic Folk Literature
?Niall Christie
26 The Lordship and Bishopric of Banyas in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (1126-1164)
?Alan V. Murray
27 Fortresses and Frontiers: Castles and Northern Syria in the Sultanate of Cairo
?Angus D. Stewart
28 The Sasanian Fort of Pankan
?Balazs Major
29 Negotiating the North: Armenian Perspectives on the Conquest Era
?Tim Greenwood
30 New Palaeoenvironmental Evidence on the Possible Impact on Agriculture of Early Arab-Islamic Raiding Activity on Crete
?John F. Haldon
Index
Notes on Contributors
Tabula Gratulatoria
A Lifelong Passion for Islamic History
?Maaike van Berkel and Letizia Osti
Bibliography of Hugh N. Kennedy
Part 1 Caliphate and Power
1 A ?imyarite Restorationist Prophecy
?Michael Cook
2 Kinship, Dynasty and the Umayyads
?Andrew Marsham
3 He Reigned as Caliph; Then He Died: The Reigns of Caliphs Versified
?Geert Jan van Gelder
4 Versifying History in Abbasid Iraq: The Universal History in Verse of ?Ali b. al-Jahm
?Harry Munt
5 How to Found an Islamic State: The Idrisids and the Rivals to the Caliphate in the Far Islamic West
?Corisande Fenwick
6 Rethinking "the Mamluk State" with Ibn Khaldun: "Mamlukization" and ?a?abiyya in the Sultanate of Cairo
?Jo Van Steenbergen
7 Ibn Khaldun and the ?af?id Caliphate
?Allen Fromherz
Part 2 Economy and Society
8 A Three-Centered System: Aleppo, Damascus, and Cairo in the Age of the Ayyubids
?R. Stephen Humphreys
9 Informal and Formal Trading Associations in Egypt and Ifriqiya, 850-1150
?Chris Wickham
10 Good Governance in Theory and Practice: Comparing Abu Yusuf's Kitab al-Kharaj with Papyri
?Petra M. Sijpesteijn
11 A Matter of Trust: On Some Principles of Governance in the Letters of Qurra b. Sharik
?Arietta Papacostantinou
12 Calculating the Population of Samarra
?Alastair Northedge
13 Flour for the Caliph: Watermills in the "Land behind Mosul"
?Cristina Tonghini
14 Bedouin, Bandits and Caliphal Disappearance: A Reappraisal of the Qarami?a and Their Success in Arabia
?Peter Webb
15 Zina and mu??anat in the Quran
?Richard A. Kimber
Part 3 Abbasids
16 Muslim Nostalgia: Longing for the Abbasid Past in the Mamluk Era
?Robert Irwin
17 The al-Mustan?iriyya madrasa in Baghdad and Its Founder, al-Mustan?ir
?Carole Hillenbrand
18 Harun al-Rashid in Premodern Arabic Literary Imaginary: Ideology of Monogamy, Harem Politics, and Court Intrigues
?Wen-Chin Ouyang
19 Representation of the Barmakids in Bodleian Manuscript Ouseley 217 and Other Monographs
?Pejman Firoozbakhsh and Arezou Azad
20 Eutychius of Alexandria Vindicated: Muslim Sources and Christian Arabic Historiography in the Early Islamic Empire
?Robert Hoyland
21 Bureaucrats on the Move: Messengers in Fourth/Tenth-Century Iraq
?Maaike van Berkel, Nadia Maria El Cheikh and Letizia Osti
22 Al-?abari's Unacknowledged Debt to Ibn Abi ?ahir ?ayfur
?Sarah Bowen Savant
23 Heraqleh: A New Interpretation
?Andrew Petersen
Part 4 Frontiers and the Others
24 The Interface between Byzantium and the Ilkhanids in Fourteenth-Century Book Painting
?Robert Hillenbrand
25 Exploring Europe through Medieval Islamic Folk Literature
?Niall Christie
26 The Lordship and Bishopric of Banyas in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (1126-1164)
?Alan V. Murray
27 Fortresses and Frontiers: Castles and Northern Syria in the Sultanate of Cairo
?Angus D. Stewart
28 The Sasanian Fort of Pankan
?Balazs Major
29 Negotiating the North: Armenian Perspectives on the Conquest Era
?Tim Greenwood
30 New Palaeoenvironmental Evidence on the Possible Impact on Agriculture of Early Arab-Islamic Raiding Activity on Crete
?John F. Haldon
Index