item: #1 of 133 id: alusur-10272 author: Beers, Theodore S. title: Review of Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ, Kalīlah and Dimnah date: 2022-12-01 words: 5509 flesch: 70 summary: These religious flourishes are not found in the earliest extant manuscripts of the Arabic Kalīla and Dimna, such as the one used for the edition of ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ʿAzzām.9 As Fishbein notes, there are other versions of Kalīla and Dimna that are set in a still more explicitly Islamic context, with quotes from Qurʾanic verses and aḥādīth. edition itself, which has been carried out competently and with an honest, realistic perspective on the complicated nature of the codicology and textual history of the Arabic Kalīla and Dimna—the result being a version of the text that meets the standard for general-purpose use and citation. keywords: arabic; dimna; fishbein; kalīla; text cache: alusur-10272.pdf plain text: alusur-10272.txt item: #2 of 133 id: alusur-10273 author: Gordon, Matthew S. title: Review of Anderson, Fenwick, & Rosser-Owen (eds.), The Aghlabids and Their Neighbors date: 2022-12-01 words: 2828 flesch: 65 summary: One understands that Talbi, the most important modern scholar of Aghlabid history bar none, and a prolific writer on Maghribi history more generally, knew of t he book and w as s lat ed to contribute a foreword. He relates these examples of public writing to the factional infighting between rival Sunni madhhabs in Ifrīqiya and, in time, Sicily, and the shifting postures on the part of Aghlabid emirs in response. keywords: e n; n t cache: alusur-10273.pdf plain text: alusur-10273.txt item: #3 of 133 id: alusur-10274 author: Balbale, Abigail Krasner title: Review of Albarrán, Ejércitos benditos date: 2022-12-01 words: 2438 flesch: 65 summary: also considers the objects, architecture, and inscriptions that reflected this vision of holy war, and the destruction of objects and symbols of the enemy that accompanied war. Based on his doctoral disserta- tion, “Los discursos de guerra santa y la memoria de las primeras batallas del Islam, al-Andalus, Siglos X-XIII” (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2019), this book reflects the author’s broad familiarity with a wide range of Arabic, Latin, and Castilian sources on the concept and practice of holy war. keywords: holy; war cache: alusur-10274.pdf plain text: alusur-10274.txt item: #4 of 133 id: alusur-10275 author: Smarandache, Bogdan C. title: Review of Lindsay & Mourad (eds. and trans.), Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period date: 2022-12-01 words: 5353 flesch: 69 summary: “Juridical directive”— an alternative to “legal opinion” widely u s e d i n c u r r e n t s c h N.b., James Lindsay and Suleiman Mourad have translated the term ابــو العزائــم in the Ayyūbid inscription at the shrine of Isaac and Rebecca (Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae, no. 5, 5:40) as “fearless warrior” (p. 207). keywords: e n; e s; h e; n s; n t; s s; s t; t h cache: alusur-10275.pdf plain text: alusur-10275.txt item: #5 of 133 id: alusur-10276 author: Lawrence, Jonathan title: Review of Balda-Tillier, Histoires d’amour et de mort date: 2022-12-01 words: 5275 flesch: 61 summary: I s l a m ; throughout this chapter, she argues that by excluding pagans and animals as well as those who breach Islamic legal dicta (by, for example, committing suicide) from being martyrs, Mughulṭāy “draws an Islamic framework” for the concept of love martyrdom (p. 150). She mentions the contemporary theoretical opposition the book would have received from neo-Ḥanbalite thought, which opposed the idea of love martyrdom, a theoretical position best elaborated in Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya’s (d. 751/1350) earlier Rawḍat al-muḥibbīn (p. 12).8 keywords: balda; ibn; love; mughulṭāy; tillier cache: alusur-10276.pdf plain text: alusur-10276.txt item: #6 of 133 id: alusur-10277 author: Smail, Kader title: Review of O’Meara, The Kaʿba Orientations date: 2022-12-01 words: 2059 flesch: 69 summary: When al-Azraqī wrote his chronicle, the building size had supposedly not changed since ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān rebuilt the Kaʿba. Although there are legitimate grounds for questioning the value of historical information dating back to a century or more before al-Azraqī lived, one can hardly dismiss out of hand his testimony on the measurements of the Kaʿba during Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 30 (2022) 643 • Kader Smail his lifetime. keywords: kaʿba cache: alusur-10277.pdf plain text: alusur-10277.txt item: #7 of 133 id: alusur-10278 author: Klasova, Pamela title: Review of Qutbuddin, Arabic Oration date: 2022-12-01 words: 5770 flesch: 63 summary: The first monograph on early Arabic oration as a genre in a Western language was Stefan Dähne’s 2001 dissertation: Stefan Dähne, “Reden der Araber: die politische h̲uṭba in der klassischen arabischen Literatur (Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 2001). Albrecht Noth in his influential The Early Arabic Historical Tradition: A Source- Critical Study dismissed the entire genre of early Arabic orations as “fictions from beginning to end.”4 keywords: arabic; e n; early; n t; o n; oration cache: alusur-10278.pdf plain text: alusur-10278.txt item: #8 of 133 id: alusur-10279 author: Enderle, Ellen title: Rethinking the Wearable in the Middle Ages date: 2022-12-01 words: 4772 flesch: 53 summary: g e m s t o n e s , t h n , a n d t h e “ a s p keywords: e e; e n; e r; e s; l e; n s; n t; o n; t e cache: alusur-10279.pdf plain text: alusur-10279.txt item: #9 of 133 id: alusur-10292 author: Antrim, Zayde; Vacca, Alison M. title: Masthead & Table of Contents date: 2022-12-01 words: 886 flesch: 49 summary: Book Review Editors Malika Dekkiche, University of Antwerp Luke Yarbrough, University of California, Los Angeles Editorial Board, Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā Manan Ahmed, Columbia University Sean Anthony, The Ohio State University Mushegh Asatryan, University of Calgary Hannah Barker, Arizona State University Francesca Bellino, Università di Napoli “L’Orientale” Evrim Binbaş, Universität Bonn Amina Elbendary, The American University in Cairo Corisande Fenwick, University College London Eve Krakowski, Princeton University Josef Meri, Hamad Bin Khalifa University Oya Pancaroğlu, Boğaziçi University Michael Pifer, University of Michigan Walid Salih, University of Toronto Vanessa Van Renterghem, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Paris) Board of Directors, Middle East Medievalists Stephennie Mulder (President), The University of Texas at Austin Najam Haider (Vice President), Barnard College Robert Haug (Secretary), University of Cincinnati Adam Talib (Board Member), Durham University Arezou Azad (Board Member), University of Oxford Khodadad Rezakhani (Board Member), Leiden University Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg (Board Member), Harvard University Shireen Hamza (Graduate Student Representative), Harvard University Natalie Kontny-Wendt (Graduate Student Representative), University of Hamburg Journal Website For submissions, archives, contact information, announcements, and more, please visit: https://journals.library.columbia.edu/ index.php/alusur/index Copyright and Permissions Editors Zayde Antrim, Trinity Colege Alison M. Vacca, Columbia University Managing Editor Christiane-Marie Abu Sarah, Erskine College Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is an international professional non-profit association of scholars interested in the study of the medieval Middle East, expansively defined to include all geographies with prominent Muslim political, religious, or social presences between 500-1500 CE. keywords: board; middle; rebellion; review; university cache: alusur-10292.pdf plain text: alusur-10292.txt item: #10 of 133 id: alusur-10320 author: Lindstedt, Ilkka title: Reconsidering Islām and Dīn in the Medinan Qurʾan date: 2023-03-21 words: 10244 flesch: 64 summary: However, here, too, al-islām translates effortlessly as “obedience.” My rendering of the words al-islām dīnan as “obedience as regards law” is, then, not a resort to special pleading but quite ordinary in the context of Qurʾanic Arabic.46 Considering the widespread impression among modern scholars and translators that Qurʾan 5:3 refers to and indeed explicitly names a religion known as Islam, it might be informative to note what the classical exegete al-Ṭabarī has to say about the phrase al-islām dīnan. keywords: arabic; believers; dīn; god; group; islām; law; medinan; obedience; press; qurʾan; qurʾanic; religion; university; verse; word cache: alusur-10320.pdf plain text: alusur-10320.txt item: #11 of 133 id: alusur-6779 author: Bonner, Michael title: In Search of the Early Islamic Economy date: 2019-11-15 words: 19799 flesch: 59 summary: Rethinking the Islamic Agricultural Revolution,” Journal of World History 20 (2009): 187–206; and L. I. Conrad, “Ṭāʿūn and Wabāʾ: Conceptions of Plague and Pestilence in Early Islam,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 25 (1982): 268–307. See C. Robinson, “Reconstructing Early Islam: Truth and Consequences,” in Method and Theory in the Study of Islamic Origins, ed. keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; bonner; brill; caliphate; cambridge; cambridge university; early; economic; economy; empires; history; islamic; journal; law; leiden; markets; michael; modern; new; press; roman; state; time; trade; umayyad; university; university press; world; wusṭā cache: alusur-6779.pdf plain text: alusur-6779.txt item: #12 of 133 id: alusur-6780 author: Klasova, Pamela title: Reacting to Muḥammad: Three Early Islamic Poets in the Kitāb al-Aghānī * date: 2019-11-15 words: 36451 flesch: 71 summary: al-Rayb is also occasionally said to have died this way, which supports the association of death by snakebite with brigandry.81 Whether a poem attributed later to Abū Khirāsh or his own authentic production, these verses contain the typically Jāhilī belief in the unpredictable nature of fate, which lurks at every corner, ready to take down a man, along with the Jāhilī theme of bravery in the face of this reckless force. The poems of the slave of the Banū al-Ḥasḥās outweigh a noble origin and wealth. keywords: abū; abū al; abū khirāsh; abū miḥjan; aghānī; akhbār; al-ʿuṣūr al; appendix; arabic; b. al; banū al; blood; cambridge; death; dīwān; early; encyclopaedia; faraj al; history; ibn al; islamic; iṣfahānī; jāhiliyya; jāhilī; kitāb al; klasova; life; man; memory; mufaḍḍal al; muslim; muḥammad; new; pamela; poem; poetry; poets; press; scholars; stetkevych; suḥaym; time; tradition; tribal; tribe; university; verses; war; wine; world; wusṭā; zuhayr cache: alusur-6780.pdf plain text: alusur-6780.txt item: #13 of 133 id: alusur-6784 author: Schine, Rachel title: Nourishing the Noble: Breastfeeding and Hero-Making in Medieval Arabic Popular Literature date: 2019-11-15 words: 19126 flesch: 65 summary: P. Bearman et al. P. Bearman et al. keywords: al-ʿuṣūr al; arabic; beirut; birth; breastfeeding; brill; cairo; child; children; dhāt al; dār al; dārim; epic; et al; family; fī al; hero; himma; history; ibn; islam; journal; junduba; kinship; leiden; literature; making; milk; moses; mother; muslim; muḥammad; new; nurse; nursing; press; qiṣaṣ al; rachel; schine; sīrat al; sīrat dhāt; text; university; version; wet; wife; women; wusṭā; ʿabd al; ḥusna cache: alusur-6784.pdf plain text: alusur-6784.txt item: #14 of 133 id: alusur-6785 author: O’Malley, Austin title: An Unexpected Romance: Reevaluating the Authorship of the Khosrow-nāma* date: 2019-11-15 words: 16097 flesch: 67 summary: One of the difficulties for ʿAṭṭār scholarship has been the dearth of biographical information, both within his 7. George Morrison (Leiden: Brill, 1981); Seyyed Hossein Nasr, “Some Observations on the Place of ʿAṭṭār within the Sufi Tradition,” in Colloquio italo-iraniano sul poeta mistico Fariduddin ʿAṭṭār (Roma, 24–25 Marzo 1977) (Rome: Accademia An Unexpected Romance: Reevaluating the Authorship of the Khosrow-nāma* Austin O’MAlley The University of Arizona (austinomalley@email.arizona.edu) keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; al-ʿuṣūr al; argument; authorship; century; din; din ʿaṭṭār; elāhi; farid; farid al; introduction; kadkani; khosrow; lines; manuscript; mokhtār; nāma; persian; poem; poetry; romance; shafiʿi; tehran; works; wusṭā; ʿaṭṭār cache: alusur-6785.pdf plain text: alusur-6785.txt item: #15 of 133 id: alusur-6786 author: Pogossian, Zaroui title: Women, Identity, and Power: A Review Essay of Antony Eastmond, Tamta’s World date: 2019-11-15 words: 18214 flesch: 56 summary: However, her methodological considerations on the facets of Armenian identity and the tension between modern scholarly discourse limited by a “national” view and the available evidence would have added depth to Eastmond’s own analysis.10 Zekiyan, too, has explored the multiple components of medieval Armenian identity, emphasizing its “polyvalence.” Both labels were used to denote Muslims in medieval Armenian sources, rather than reflecting ethnic belonging.31 Presumably, both women converted to Christianity after their marriage to Xawṙas, given that Xawṙas and Zmruxt eventually commissioned a Gospel manuscript that commemorated Xut‘lu Xat‘un. keywords: academy; al-ʿuṣūr; armenian; book; century; church; des; eastmond; erevan; family; georgian; history; identity; inscriptions; iwanē; medieval; monastery; power; press; sciences; sources; tamta; t‘amt‘a; women; world; wusṭā; zak‘arids; zak‘arē cache: alusur-6786.pdf plain text: alusur-6786.txt item: #16 of 133 id: alusur-6787 author: Gallorini, Louise title: Mysticism and Ethics in Islam date: 2019-11-15 words: 3448 flesch: 64 summary: Concluding the first panel was a paper by Khaled Abdo (Muʾminūn bilā ḥudūd Institute), “From Criticism of Sufism to the Reform of Sufi Ethics: Discovering the works of al-Daylamī.” This paper explored the works of al-Daylamī (d. 1192), focusing in particular on his book The Reformation of Ethics (Iṣlāḥ al-akhlāq), which deals with Sufi ethics and the reformation of Sufism as well as the Sufi stance toward philosophy; al-Daylamī’s book has been so far overlooked as a potentially theoretical grounding work on this subject. keywords: e n cache: alusur-6787.pdf plain text: alusur-6787.txt item: #17 of 133 id: alusur-6788 author: Sidky, Hythem title: Daniel Alan Brubaker, Corrections in Early Qurʾānic Manuscripts date: 2019-11-15 words: 9542 flesch: 70 summary: i m p s e s t c o r r e s p o n d t o The plethora of early manuscripts at our disposal combined with digital technologies making them accessible has reawakened a fervor among both scholars a n d t h e p u b l i c . keywords: brubaker; e n; e r; e s; h e; n s; n t; o n; r s; r t; s s; s t; t e; t h; t t cache: alusur-6788.pdf plain text: alusur-6788.txt item: #18 of 133 id: alusur-6790 author: Legendre, Marie title: Jennifer A. Cromwell, Recording Village Life: A Coptic Scribe in Early Islamic Egypt. date: 2019-11-15 words: 4353 flesch: 67 summary: The chapter reveals that the drafting of tax documents was a closely regulated process in the twenty or so years in which they are attested at Djeme and that only one scribe at a time was involved in drawing up such texts. Chapter 4, “Recording Taxes,” shows that Aristophanes was first involved in drawing up fiscal documents in 724, when he wrote tax demand notes for the office of the amīr of Luxor and Esna, Sahl b. keywords: e s; s t; t e; t t cache: alusur-6790.pdf plain text: alusur-6790.txt item: #19 of 133 id: alusur-6792 author: Sánchez, Ignacio title: Hans-Peter Pökel, Der unmännliche Mann: Zur Figuration des Eunuchen im Werk von al-Ǧāḥiẓ (gest. 869) date: 2019-11-15 words: 2007 flesch: 60 summary: The sources used in the book are reviewed in chapter 2, and Pökel devotes several pages to the most important of them, K. al-Ḥayawān, but he does not say much about how al-Jāḥiẓ conceived of the long section on eunuchs in his work (K. al-Ḥayawān, 1:106– 181) or about how the section is connected with the rest of the chapters. In chapter 2, Pökel reviews the figure of al-Jāḥiẓ and surveys the corpus of Jāḥiẓian works on which he bases his study. keywords: eunuchs; jāḥiẓ; pökel cache: alusur-6792.pdf plain text: alusur-6792.txt item: #20 of 133 id: alusur-6793 author: Lynch, Ryan J. title: Scott Savran, Arabs and Iranians in the Islamic Conquest Narrative date: 2019-11-15 words: 2208 flesch: 55 summary: This discussion furnishes an opportunity for Savran to introduce the “audience trope” that is such an integral part of the depiction of the Sasanians in Islamic sources (and a key part of the book’s final three chapters). 4. Albrecht Noth and Lawrence Conrad, The Early Arabic Historical Tradition: A Source-Critical Study (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 1994); Tayeb El-Hibri, Parable and Politics in Early Islamic History: The Rashidun Caliphs (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010); and Tayeb El-Hibri, Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography: Hārūn al-Rashīd and the Narrative of the ʿAbbāsid Caliphate (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). keywords: arab; islamic; savran cache: alusur-6793.pdf plain text: alusur-6793.txt item: #21 of 133 id: alusur-6799 author: Parkes Allen, Jonathan title: Thomas A. Carlson, Christianity in Fifteenth-Century Iraq. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization date: 2019-11-15 words: 4736 flesch: 58 summary: In more recent years, “Assyrian” and “Chaldean” have emerged as signifiers of aspirational national identities attached to East Syriac communities, names that have also been used for the proliferation of separate churches coming out of the medieval Church of the East thanks to new connections with the Catholic Church and Protestant bodies. In a similar vein, it is not so much a criticism of Carlson’s findings as a caution to point out that a number of his conclusions rest upon one or two works by a single author, which, Carlson implicitly argues, ought to be taken as representative of the wider East Syriac 7. Alessandro Mengozzi, Israel of Alqosh and Joseph of Telkepe: A Story in a Truthful Language; Religious Poems in Vernacular Syriac (North Iraq, 17th Century) (Leuven: Peeters, 2002); idem, “Neo-Syriac Literature in Context: A Reading of the Durektha On Revealed Truth by Joseph of Telkepe (17th Century),” in Redefining Christian Identity: Christian Cultural Strategies Since the Rise of Islam, ed. keywords: e n; n t; o n; t e cache: alusur-6799.pdf plain text: alusur-6799.txt item: #22 of 133 id: alusur-6800 author: Connelly, Coleman title: The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy. Edited by Khaled El-Rouayheb and Sabine Schmidtke. Oxford Handbooks date: 2019-11-15 words: 3756 flesch: 67 summary: 6. On the perception that Ibn Taymiyya is “doing philosophy” or “falsafa” in the modern sense, see Anke von Kügelgen, “The Poison of Philosophy: For instance, many later contributions to Islamic philosophy come in the form of commentaries or even versifications, which were often dismissed as derivative or unoriginal on the basis of inadequate study. keywords: islamic; philosophy cache: alusur-6800.pdf plain text: alusur-6800.txt item: #23 of 133 id: alusur-6804 author: Walmsley, Alan title: Remembering Kenneth G. Holum date: 2019-11-15 words: 5091 flesch: 69 summary: — Gideon Avni It is my great honor to write about my dear doctoral adviser, my Doktorvater—as the Germans still say today—and my friend and mentor, Ken Holum. Not only does Ken Holum indisput- ably belong at the top of the protagonist category; he was also a great bloke. keywords: e n; n t; t e; t h cache: alusur-6804.pdf plain text: alusur-6804.txt item: #24 of 133 id: alusur-6805 author: Borrut, Antoine title: Remembering Michael Bonner date: 2019-11-15 words: 5236 flesch: 73 summary: w i t h increasing animation the Italian TV game show he had watched daily while visiting Remembering Michael Bonner Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 27 (2019): 356 Daniela’s family. Indeed, he took us seriously and sought out our advice in matters great and small—about the department, about something he was writing or thinking of Remembering Michael Bonner Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 27 (2019): 361 teaching. keywords: michael; n e; o n cache: alusur-6805.pdf plain text: alusur-6805.txt item: #25 of 133 id: alusur-6807 author: Whitcomb, Donald title: Remarks by the Recipient of the 2018 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award Given at the Annual Meeting of Middle East Medievalists date: 2019-11-15 words: 4095 flesch: 64 summary: MEM Awards Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 27 (2019): iii-ix This acknowledgement of my work in Islamic archaeology comes as a complete surprise and therefore is all the more appreciated. I found that, in the field of Islamic archaeology, this was a new and rare approach that necessit at ed study of historical contexts as well as art historical resources. keywords: archaeology; islamic cache: alusur-6807.pdf plain text: alusur-6807.txt item: #26 of 133 id: alusur-6809 author: Borrut, Antoine; Gordon, Matthew title: Letter from the Editors date: 2019-11-15 words: 974 flesch: 58 summary: n c e annually and has averaged well over two hundred pages per issue, involves no small amount of effort. Issues of the newly formatted journal (2015 to the present) will be obtainable through our website. keywords: issue cache: alusur-6809.pdf plain text: alusur-6809.txt item: #27 of 133 id: alusur-6852 author: Fierro, Maribel; Cressier, Patrice title: Introduction date: 2018-11-15 words: 8757 flesch: 58 summary: a. Arroyo Herrero, Introducción al estudio de la obra del cadí Nuʿmān (s. IV / X), al-Manāqib wa-l- Maṯālib, Trabajo Fin de Grado, Universidad de Salamanca, September 2015; Introducción al estudio de la obra del cadí Nuʿmān (s. IV / X), al-Manāqib wa-l-Maṯālib. keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; almohade; andalus; caliphate; caliphs; del; des; fierro; history; ibn; islamic; les; new; paris; west; wusṭā cache: alusur-6852.pdf plain text: alusur-6852.txt item: #28 of 133 id: alusur-6853 author: Toral-Niehoff, Isabel title: Writing for the Caliphate: The Unique Necklace by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih* date: 2018-11-15 words: 8086 flesch: 60 summary: 89 • Isabel Toral-NIehoff Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 26 (2018) that are organized following a systematic and scientific epistemology of knowledge (inspired by Greek models and philosophy, still in statu nascendi then in al-Andalus),41 the ʿIqd is arranged in accordance with thematic clusters that follow a descending hierarchy of knowledge (descensus).42 The systematic structure of the ʿIqd also made it very manageable, so that later authors like al-Nuwayrī and al-Qalqashandī were able to easily excerpt whole books from the ʿIqd for their own works.43 The ʿIqd reflects a broad curriculum that includes, for example, knowledge of statecraft, the military, diplomacy, courtly etiquette, literature, poetry, history, and diverse witty anecdotes; this suggests that it encompassed the broad base of knowledge that a cultivated member of the courtly elite in Cordoba would be expected to have. Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 26 (2018): 80-95 Writing for the Caliphate: The Unique Necklace by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih* Isabel Toral-NIehoff Freie Universität Berlin (itoral@zedat.fu-berlin.de) keywords: abbasid; adab; andalus; arabic; caliphal; caliphate; de al; des; ibn; ibn ʿabd; islamic; kitāb; knowledge; rabbih; umayyad; ʿabd; ʿiqd cache: alusur-6853.pdf plain text: alusur-6853.txt item: #29 of 133 id: alusur-6855 author: Thiele, Jan title: Facing the Mahdī’s True Belief: Abū ʿAmr al-Salālijī’s Ashʿarite Creed and the Almohads’ Claim to Religious Authority date: 2018-11-15 words: 8714 flesch: 67 summary: A preliminary revision of the revised proof can be found in al-Juwaynī’s earlier works al-Irshād27 and Lumaʿ al-adilla fī qawāʿid ahl al-sunna wa-al-jamāʿa,28 where he still relies on the proof from accidents argument. In fact, the description qāʾim bi-nafsihi was open to interpretation, and it appears that al-Ashʿarī himself hesitated in regard to whether or not it could be rightly—or exclusively—applied to God.34 keywords: abū; al-ʿaqīda; ashʿarite; chapter; doctrine; existence; god; ibn; irshād; juwaynī; proof; salālijī; tūmart; ʿaqīda cache: alusur-6855.pdf plain text: alusur-6855.txt item: #30 of 133 id: alusur-6856 author: Albarrán, Javier title: The Jihād of the Caliphs and the First Battles of Islam: Memory, Legitimization and Holy War, from Cordoba to Tinmal date: 2018-11-15 words: 20233 flesch: 69 summary: M. Fierro, “Abd al-Rahman III frente al califato fatimí y al reino astur-leonés: campañas militares y procesos de legitimación político-religiosa,” in Rudesindus. “Abd al-Raḥmān III frente al califato fatimí y al reino astur-leonés: campañas militares y procesos de legitimación político-religiosa.” keywords: abū; al-ʿuṣūr al; almohade; andalus; battles; bayān al; caliph al; caliphs; de al; de ibn; de la; eds; fierro; history; ibn al; islam; islamic; jihād; kitāb al; madrid; memory; muḥammad; nazm al; new; prophet; tūmart; umayyad; vol; war; wusṭā; ʿabd al cache: alusur-6856.pdf plain text: alusur-6856.txt item: #31 of 133 id: alusur-6857 author: Buresi, Pascal title: Preparing the Almohad Caliphate: The Almoravids* date: 2018-11-15 words: 9193 flesch: 63 summary: F. Rodríguez Mediano, “Instituciones judiciales: cadíes y otras magistraturas,” in El retroceso territorial de Al-Andalus: Almorávides y Almohades, siglos XI al XIII, ed. In El retroceso territorial de Al-Andalus: Almorávides y Almohades, siglos XI al XIII, ed. keywords: abū; al-ʿuṣūr; al-ʿuṣūr al; almoravid; andalus; authority; caliphate; century; de al; ibn; maghrib; power; tashfīn; wusṭā; yūsuf; yūsuf b.; ʿabd; ʿabd al cache: alusur-6857.pdf plain text: alusur-6857.txt item: #32 of 133 id: alusur-6861 author: Vacca, Alison M. title: Navigating Language in the Early Islamic World date: 2018-11-15 words: 4262 flesch: 64 summary: He also suggested, then, that we might uncover the variations of early Islamic Arabic by revisiting the traditional corpora, focusing s p e c t r e n ( S a n keywords: e n; n s; n t; o n; r e; t e cache: alusur-6861.pdf plain text: alusur-6861.txt item: #33 of 133 id: alusur-6862 author: Seeden, Helga title: Post-Eurocentric Poetics: New Approaches from Arabic, Turkish and Persian Literature date: 2018-11-15 words: 1935 flesch: 59 summary: Persian literary theory argues that creation and interpretation are controvertible, as are the poet and critic. She argued that, if viewed in its entirety, the uninterrupted and self-contained tradition of Persian literary production over half a millennium possessed its own “dynamic for the transmission of literary tradition.” keywords: persian; poetics cache: alusur-6862.pdf plain text: alusur-6862.txt item: #34 of 133 id: alusur-6863 author: Gallorini, Louise title: Approaches to the Study of Pre-Modern Arabic Anthologies date: 2018-11-15 words: 3264 flesch: 70 summary: Panel 5: “Poetry” Chaired by Tayeb El-Hibri (University of Massachusetts, Amherst,) the last panel of the day, on the topic of poetry, began with a presentation by Adam Talib (Durham University) on the relationship between poetry anthologies and dīwān. The different presentations explored the overwhelming presence of anthologies i n p r e - m o keywords: e n; r e cache: alusur-6863.pdf plain text: alusur-6863.txt item: #35 of 133 id: alusur-6867 author: Brown, Peter title: Muriel Debié. L’écriture de l’histoire en syriaque. Transmissions interculturelles et constructions identitaires entre hellénisme et islam. date: 2018-11-15 words: 3635 flesch: 67 summary: Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian Political Culture in Late Antiquity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015), 23–58. 4. Bar Hebraeus, The Ecclesiastical Chronicle, translated by David Wilmshurst (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2016), 244. bibliographies attached to each text shows how, in recent decades, Syriac studies have lurched forward. What can scholars who are not directly involved in the progress of Syriac studies draw from this magnificent book? keywords: e n; syriac cache: alusur-6867.pdf plain text: alusur-6867.txt item: #36 of 133 id: alusur-6869 author: Melchert, Christopher title: Lena Salaymeh, The Beginnings of Islamic Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions date: 2018-11-15 words: 1417 flesch: 55 summary: My approach in this review will therefore be to look past her theory to see whether she explains particular early legal problems in ways that seem useful to a traditional historian of Islamic law. It is the nature of Scripture to be interpretable in multiple ways, and the most an historian should try to do is to assess why some interpretation either Lena Salaymeh, The Beginnings of Islamic Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), xiii+242 pp. keywords: salaymeh cache: alusur-6869.pdf plain text: alusur-6869.txt item: #37 of 133 id: alusur-6872 author: Walker, Paul E. title: Michael Brett, The Fatimid Empire. The Edinburgh History of the Islamic Empires date: 2018-11-15 words: 1369 flesch: 64 summary: Online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_30871 pale by comparison to the many items of information I picked up from this book, interpretations of issues I am now forced to rethink and look at in a new light, terms such as “seveners” I previously thought misleading and obsolete but may have been convinced otherwise, along with many works in the bibliography that ought to be read or reread. Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 26 (2018): 249-251 Book Review Those of us intimately involved in the study of Fatimid history, as well as others who teach areas of Islamic history in which this dynasty played a significant role, have long lamented the lack of a good, substantial one-volume account of that era suitable for use in classroom instruction and also generally available and accessible for anyone inter- ested in the period. keywords: brett cache: alusur-6872.pdf plain text: alusur-6872.txt item: #38 of 133 id: alusur-6873 author: Ali, Kecia title: Matthew S. Gordon and Kathryn Hain, eds., Concubines and Courtesans date: 2018-11-15 words: 3370 flesch: 61 summary: Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 26 (2018): 252-257 Book Review In this exciting new volume, co-ed-itors Matthew Gordon and Kathryn Hain provide scholars and students an important resource for the study of slavery and enslaved women. One of the merits of this volume is the number of enslaved women about whom it presents biographical information— though of varying levels of detail and facticity. keywords: e n; o n; women cache: alusur-6873.pdf plain text: alusur-6873.txt item: #39 of 133 id: alusur-6874 author: Durand-Guédy, David title: Vanessa Van Renterghem, Les élites bagdadiennes au temps des Seldjoukides date: 2018-11-15 words: 7387 flesch: 72 summary: See, notably, the reviews by T. El-Hibri in the International Journal of Middle East Studies 34 (2002): 736-738; V. Van Renterghem in the Bulletin Critique des Annales Islamologiques 18 (2002): 65-67; and, most importantly, Shahab Ahmed in the Journal of the American Oriental Society 123/1 (2003): 179-182. and studies simply overlooked and, above all, by a thesis which proved untenable.13 That being said, and despite what Van Renterghem implies, her book and Ephrat’s have much in common: the same main biographical sources, the same focus on the ʿulamāʾ (not the only elites dealt with by Van Renterghem, but certainly the most documented), and the same themes (e.g. assessing Baghdad’s attraction or the family background of the ʿulamāʾ). Here, it seems to me that the most important sources on Saljuq Baghdad encapsulate a Ḥanbalī-Abbasid point of view that, to some extent, was embraced by Van Renterghem. keywords: baghdad; e n; h e; n t; renterghem; s t; t h; van cache: alusur-6874.pdf plain text: alusur-6874.txt item: #40 of 133 id: alusur-6996 author: Thomas Miller, Matthew title: Important New Developments in Arabographic Optical Character Recognition date: 2017-11-15 words: 4282 flesch: 51 summary: al-Wusṭā 25 (2017) producing a library of OCR models that gradually will cover all major typefaces and editorial styles used in modern Arabic-script printing. al-Wusṭā 25 (2017) Appendix: Performance of Text-Specific Models Table A: Performance of #1-Based Model on Other Texts Table B: Performance of #2-Based Model on Other Texts Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 25 (2017) New Developments in Arabographic Optical Character Recognition • 13 Appendix: Performance of Text-Specific Models Table D: Performance of #4-Based Model on Other Texts Table C: Performance of #3-Based Model on Other Texts keywords: accuracy; arabic; data; model; ocr; texts; training cache: alusur-6996.pdf plain text: alusur-6996.txt item: #41 of 133 id: alusur-6997 author: Treadwell, Luke title: The Numismatic Evidence for the Reign of Aḥmad b. Ṭūlūn date: 2017-11-15 words: 15769 flesch: 65 summary: Miṣr dinars with standard inscriptions, including Jaʿfar’s title al-Mufawwaḍ, were struck in small quantities in 264/877 and early 265/878.83 Why did Ibn Ṭūlūn issue dinars that bore his own ism and patronymic in 265/878? Hassan cited Vollers’ edition of Ibn al–Dāya: idem., keywords: abū; al-ʿuṣūr al; aḥmad; aḥmad b.; b. ṭūlūn; caliph; caliph al; coins; dinars; dāya; egypt; evidence; governor; ibn al; ibn ṭūlūn; miṣr; muwaffaq; muʿtamid; numismatic; state; tulunid; wusṭā; year cache: alusur-6997.pdf plain text: alusur-6997.txt item: #42 of 133 id: alusur-6998 author: Cooperson, Michael title: The Abbasid “Golden Age”: An Excavation date: 2017-11-15 words: 13053 flesch: 64 summary: On the other hand, Stetkevych’s further argument that nineteenth- and twentieth-century neo-classical poets invoked Abū Tammām, al-Buḥturī, et al., to construct the image of a lost Arab-Islamic utopia is fully convincing.46 What remains to be determined why the poets of this particular period should have been chosen to play this role. This trope has been tirelessly repeated since al-Ṭahṭāwī, and still appears regularly when Arabic media has reason to refer to the Abbasids. keywords: abbasid; age; al-ʿuṣūr; al-ʿuṣūr al; arabic; arabs; baghdad; century; cooperson; culture; decline; early; example; golden; history; ibn; islamic; literature; michael; modern; new; ottoman; period; studies; von; wusṭā; zaydān cache: alusur-6998.pdf plain text: alusur-6998.txt item: #43 of 133 id: alusur-6999 author: Vacca, Alison M. title: Conflict and Community in the Medieval Caucasus date: 2017-11-15 words: 23822 flesch: 61 summary: Asad Q. Ahmed, et al. Abstract In the 230s/850s, the caliph al-Mutawakkil sent his general, Bughā al-Kabīr, to assert control over the wayward northern frontier of the ʿAbbāsid Caliphate. keywords: abū; abū al; al-ʿuṣūr; arab; arabic; arcruni; armenian; army; ašot; bagratuni; bughā; bughā al; campaign; caucasus; christian; communities; community; conflict; history; ibn; identity; isḥāq; khuwaythiyya; muslim; mūsā; patmut‘iwn; power; press; son; sources; taʾrīkh; t‘ovma; university; women; wusṭā; xut; ṭabarī cache: alusur-6999.pdf plain text: alusur-6999.txt item: #44 of 133 id: alusur-7000 author: Hoyland, Robert G. title: Reflections on the Identity of the Arabian Conquerors of the Seventh-Century Middle East date: 2017-11-15 words: 15869 flesch: 61 summary: Let us have a look, beginning with the Qurʾanic verse that Donner regards as a clear support of his thesis: Those who believe, and Jews and Sabians and Christians—those who believe in God and the Last Day and who act righteously—will have no fear and shall not grieve (on the Day of Judgement) (5:69) Shoemaker, “‘The Reign of God Has Come’: Eschatology and Empire in Late Antiquity and Early Islam,” Arabica 61 (2014): 514-58. 17. “‘The Reign of God Has Come’: Eschatology and Empire in Late Antiquity and Early Islam.” keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; arab; arabic; believers; century; community; conquerors; donner; god; history; hoyland; identity; islam; islamic; jews; muhammad; muslim; new; path; press; religion; term; university; webb; wusṭā cache: alusur-7000.pdf plain text: alusur-7000.txt item: #45 of 133 id: alusur-7001 author: Antrim, Zayde title: Spatial Thought in Islamicate Societies date: 2017-11-15 words: 4311 flesch: 63 summary: i n t e r d e p e She argued, following Miquel, that medieval Arabic geography was not merely a vector carrying ancient geography to Renaissance Europe, and that its significance cannot be properly appreciated without understanding the social and political context in which i t e m e r g e d . keywords: e n; e s; n t; o n; t e cache: alusur-7001.pdf plain text: alusur-7001.txt item: #46 of 133 id: alusur-7002 author: Dehghani Farsani , Yoones title: New Insights into Early Islamic Historiography date: 2017-11-15 words: 16045 flesch: 69 summary: Kitāb al-futūḥ is a “fanciful history […] written from a Shīʿī viewpoint”, 2 certain suspicions swirl around this work. a s n o t p r e v e n t e d specialists to use Ibn Aʿtham’s texts for various purposes, although their access to the Kitāb al-futūḥ was for a long time 1. keywords: b. al; c o; e c; e d; e e; e n; e t; futūḥ; futūḥ al; h e; ibn; islamic; kitāb al; l e; n c; n d; n g; n s; n t; o n; r e; s e; s t; t h; t o; t r; t t cache: alusur-7002.pdf plain text: alusur-7002.txt item: #47 of 133 id: alusur-7003 author: Wood, Philip title: Peter Webb, Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam date: 2017-11-15 words: 3565 flesch: 63 summary: It was not simply a period of ungodly impiety for all writers, and he emphasizes the degree to which authors like al-Balādhurī recognized a nobility among pre-Islamic Arabs that a n t Turning much received wisdom on its head, he argues that there was no homogenous Arab people that lived in pre-Islamic Arabia to whom Muhammad delivered his message. keywords: arabic; e n; e s cache: alusur-7003.pdf plain text: alusur-7003.txt item: #48 of 133 id: alusur-7004 author: Gordon, Matthew S. title: Joshua Mabra, Princely Authority in the Early Marwānid State: The Life of ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Marwān date: 2017-11-15 words: 3300 flesch: 69 summary: Joshua Mabra, in his concise and understated new book, sees the shift as having taken place under ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Marwān (d. 85/705), the newly appointed governor, and, again, in good measure, because of his approach to office. a r w ā n a n d , following the latter’s demise and his own ascent to office, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz himself, could count on the backing of the Quḍāʿa. keywords: al-ʿazīz; mabra; ʿabd cache: alusur-7004.pdf plain text: alusur-7004.txt item: #49 of 133 id: alusur-7005 author: Klasova, Pamela title: Lyall Armstrong, The Quṣṣāṣ of Early Islam date: 2017-11-15 words: 4357 flesch: 68 summary: quṣṣāṣ he collected These are related to either of two issues: (1) a conflation of qaṣaṣ and quṣṣāṣ and (2) authenticity. keywords: qaṣaṣ; quṣṣāṣ cache: alusur-7005.pdf plain text: alusur-7005.txt item: #50 of 133 id: alusur-7006 author: Gordon, Matthew S. title: Christophe Picard, La Mer des Califes: Une histoire de la Méditerranée musulmane date: 2017-11-15 words: 3780 flesch: 67 summary: T h e s e c o f g e o g r a p h keywords: e n cache: alusur-7006.pdf plain text: alusur-7006.txt item: #51 of 133 id: alusur-7009 author: Adil, Sabahat F. title: Mona Hassan, Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History date: 2017-11-15 words: 1242 flesch: 61 summary: In terms of sources, this chapter centers on historical documents to examine attitudes towards the caliphate, which ought to be contrasted with the emphasis on texts such as juridical in earlier chapters. i m collective memory, particularly in terms of subsequent conceptualizations of the caliphate, which is the topic of Chapter 2, “Recapturing Lost Glory and Legitimacy.” keywords: caliphate cache: alusur-7009.pdf plain text: alusur-7009.txt item: #52 of 133 id: alusur-7010 author: Beers, Theodore S. title: Abolfazl Khatibi, Āyā Firdawsī Maḥmūd-i Ghaznavī rā hajv guft? date: 2017-11-15 words: 3313 flesch: 71 summary: Still other lines have metrical faults, or employ Arabic loanwords that occur nowhere else in Firdawsī’s œuvre. There may be a few exceptions to this statement, depending on how one views the earliest works that quote lines from Firdawsī, such as the anonymous chronicle Mujmal al-tavārīkh va al-qiṣaṣ (begun in 520/1126), and indeed the Chahār maqālah. keywords: firdawsī; hajv’nāmah; khatibi; lines; maḥmūd cache: alusur-7010.pdf plain text: alusur-7010.txt item: #53 of 133 id: alusur-7012 author: Tolmacheva, Marina title: Anna Dolinina date: 2017-11-15 words: 1595 flesch: 60 summary: He presented her a copy of his 1945 book, Among Arabic Manuscripts (“Nad arabskimi rukopisiami”), with the inscription: “To Anna Dolinina in reward for abandoning German studies. But in 1960, things were changing in Soviet http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22497726 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22497726 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22497726 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22497726 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22497726 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22497726 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/936199810 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/936199810 In Memoriam: Anna Dolinina (1923—2017) • 227 Al-ʿUṣūr keywords: arabic cache: alusur-7012.pdf plain text: alusur-7012.txt item: #54 of 133 id: alusur-7015 author: Bulliet, Richard W. title: Remarks by the Recipient of the 2015 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award date: 2016-11-15 words: 2012 flesch: 69 summary: I benefited from the works of the Orientalists, of course, but quantitative history and the history of technology were wide open fields where I could ask new and important questions and hope to find answers. I believe I have lived up to both commitments, but one consequence has been that I seldom schooled anyone in my approach to quantitative history, animal history, or history of technology. keywords: cards; history cache: alusur-7015.pdf plain text: alusur-7015.txt item: #55 of 133 id: alusur-7016 author: Donner, Fred M. title: Arabic Fatḥ as ‘Conquest’ and its Origin in Islamic Tradition date: 2016-11-15 words: 7075 flesch: 68 summary: -13; A.F.L. Beeston et al., Sabaic Dictionary (Louvain-la-Neuve: Peeters, and Beirut: Librairie du Liban, 1982), p. 47. In doing so, they follow the medieval commentators, who for the most part explain this verse as a reference to Muḥammad’s agreement with Quraysh at al-Ḥudaybiya.24 Al-Ṭabarī’s Tafsīr provides a variety of reports arguing that in this verse fatḥ means ḥukm (a judgment) against those who opposed Muḥammad and in support of those who backed him; in summarizing, he paraphrases the verse to mean, “We gave a verdict of assistance (naṣr) and victory (ẓafr) against the polytheists (kuffār) and with you.” keywords: arabian; arabic; conquest; fatḥ; god; islamic; meaning; oxford; press; qurʾān; university cache: alusur-7016.pdf plain text: alusur-7016.txt item: #56 of 133 id: alusur-7017 author: Anthony, Sean W. title: Was Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī a Shiʿite Historian? The State of the Question* date: 2016-11-15 words: 14437 flesch: 72 summary: The available data about al-Yaʿqūbī is not only sparse, it is also fraught with ambiguities and contradictions, raising the question as to whether any of the data point to his sectarian loyalties. al-Wusṭā 24 (2016) remains indubitable is that al-Yaʿqūbī did in fact have a long tenure in Egypt as well. keywords: abū; al-ʿuṣūr; aḥmad; bakr; beirut; chronicle; dār al; history; ibn; ibn al; islamic; kitāb; kitāb al; leiden; muḥammad; muḥammad al; prophet; shiʿite; tārīkh; vols; wusṭā; wāḍiḥ; wāḍiḥ al; yaʿqūbī; ʿabd al; ʿalī cache: alusur-7017.pdf plain text: alusur-7017.txt item: #57 of 133 id: alusur-7018 author: Melvin-Koushki, Matthew title: Of Islamic Grammatology: Ibn Turka’s Lettrist Metaphysics of Light* date: 2016-11-15 words: 37184 flesch: 47 summary: Nathan House et al., Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1998, 371-97. It alone may reveal the Absolute (al-iṭlāq) that otherwise transcends all perception and thought. keywords: abū; al-ʿuṣūr al; arabic; book; cambridge; century; context; culture; derrida; doctrine; dīn; existence; form; god; grammatology; history; ibn al; ibn turka; intellectual; iran; islamic; islamicate; knowledge; koushki; koushki al-ʿuṣūr; letters; lettrist; light; literature; magic; mamluk; matthew; melvin; metaphysics; new; number; occult; ottoman; pen; period; persian; philosophy; place; quest; safavid; scholars; science; speech; tashkīk al; theory; time; timurid; tradition; world; writing; wusṭā; ʿalī; ʿilm al cache: alusur-7018.pdf plain text: alusur-7018.txt item: #58 of 133 id: alusur-7021 author: Brown, Jonathan title: A Man for All Seasons: Ibn ʿUqda and Crossing Sectarian Boundaries in the 4th/10th Century date: 2016-11-15 words: 3433 flesch: 82 summary: Shams al-Dīn al-Dhahabī (d. 748/1348), no lover of Shiites, calls Ibn ʿUqda “the ḥadīth master of his age and the oceanic ḥadīth scholar (ḥāfiẓ al-ʿaṣr wa al-muḥaddith al-baḥr).” Ṣārim al-Dīn Ibrāhīm al-Wazīrī, al-Falak al-dawwār fī ʿulūm al-ḥadīth wa al-fiqh wa al-āthār, ed. keywords: dār; ibn; ʿuqda; ḥadīth cache: alusur-7021.pdf plain text: alusur-7021.txt item: #59 of 133 id: alusur-7022 author: Mauder, Christian ; Markiewicz, Christopher title: A New Source on the Social Gatherings (majalis) of the Mamluk Sultan Qānṣawh al-Ghawrī date: 2016-11-15 words: 2224 flesch: 63 summary: As with the other works of this small genre, the anonymous author of al-ʿUqūd al-jawhariyya organized his work around several topical gatherings (majālis): 1) on certain noble questions and the stories of the prophets, 2) on kings and sultans, 3) on the wisdom of the philosophers (fī ḥikmat al-ḥukamāʾ), and 4) on the schemes and duplicity of women.11 The two extant manuscripts only cover the first two topics. The participants in the majālis occasionally reference authoritative sources, such as al-Ṭabarī (d. 310/923) or al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad 10. keywords: al-ʿuqūd; fol; ghawrī; mamluk cache: alusur-7022.pdf plain text: alusur-7022.txt item: #60 of 133 id: alusur-7024 author: Heidemann, Stefan title: Regional and Transregional Elites: Connecting the Early Islamic Empire date: 2016-11-15 words: 3601 flesch: 64 summary: Heidemann highlighted the exchange of military elites of different geographical and ethnic backgrounds after two to three generations as a feature that set the early Islamic empire apart from the Roman and Sasanian empires, both of which were characterised by a more evolutionary development of their elite structures. The question of military elites in the early Islamic empire was a recurrent theme in the conference papers. keywords: elites; r e cache: alusur-7024.pdf plain text: alusur-7024.txt item: #61 of 133 id: alusur-7026 author: Borrut, Antoine title: Denis Genequand and Christian Julien Robin (eds.), Les Jafnides: des rois arabes au service de Byzance date: 2016-11-15 words: 4292 flesch: 64 summary: n – n o r t h e G r e g F i s h e r ’ s c keywords: e n; e t; r e cache: alusur-7026.pdf plain text: alusur-7026.txt item: #62 of 133 id: alusur-7027 author: Bonner, Michael title: Isabel Toral-Niehof, Al-Ḥīra, Eine arabische Kulturmetropole im spätantiken Kontext date: 2016-11-15 words: 3224 flesch: 62 summary: h e community’s origins, including its relation to Palmyra and its trade, the Zenobia legend, and the possibility that al-Ḥīra may have played host to Manichaeans seeking refuge from Sasanid repression. r i u m p h o f Christianity at al-Ḥīra, but this can only be speculation.) keywords: arabic; ḥīra cache: alusur-7027.pdf plain text: alusur-7027.txt item: #63 of 133 id: alusur-7028 author: Toral-Niehof, Isabel title: Thomas Bauer, Die Kultur der Ambiguität: Eine andere Geschichte des Islams date: 2016-11-15 words: 3982 flesch: 60 summary: A further point is that Bauer’s portrayal of pre-modern Islam occasionally suggests that this period was almost post-modern, which is, of course, a contradictio in adjecto (e.g., 113 “Konzeption […] ist unverkennbar postmodern”), since post- modernity presupposes modernity by its very essence. (For other questionable omissions, see the review by Irene Schneider).5 Another point concerns his under- standing of sex, gender and sexuality in pre-modern Islam, which is debatable;6 and Bauer’s almost complete neglect of female sexuality and gender in a chapter addressing sexuality in Islam is also hardly comprehensible. keywords: n t cache: alusur-7028.pdf plain text: alusur-7028.txt item: #64 of 133 id: alusur-7030 author: Troadec, Anne title: Amina Elbendary, Crowds and Sultans: Urban Protest in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria date: 2016-11-15 words: 3632 flesch: 70 summary: i n t e r e s t i n t h e m u n d a n e , and reveal a different sense of self and identity of the authors – many of whom came from popular backgrounds – who include themselves in the narrative” (p. 82). i d e r e d keywords: e n; t e cache: alusur-7030.pdf plain text: alusur-7030.txt item: #65 of 133 id: alusur-7031 author: Mauder, Christian title: Petrus Martyr Anglerius, Legatio Babylonica. Edition, Übersetzung und Kommentar von Hans Heinrich Todt date: 2016-11-15 words: 2900 flesch: 66 summary: i n n u m e r o us instances Petrus Martyr highlights the Mamluk dragoman’s connection to the Iberian Peninsula as an important basis for their good collaboration in Egypt. Born in the Italian town of Arona on the shores of the Lago Maggiore in 1457, Petrus Martyr held numerous diplomatic, educational and administrative posts at various localities in northern and central Italy, thereby using to full advantage his thorough education in the antique Latin cultural heritage which he had received in Milan and Rome. keywords: n t cache: alusur-7031.pdf plain text: alusur-7031.txt item: #66 of 133 id: alusur-7034 author: Crone, Patricia title: Remarks by the Recipient of the 2014 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award date: 2015-11-15 words: 2345 flesch: 72 summary: After Meccan Trade, or at the same time (both this and other books took a long time to reach print), I published God’s Caliph with Martin Hinds. MEM Awards Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 23 (2015): iii-vi When I discussed with Matthew what I should talk about, he said he’d like to hear some manner of reflection on my work, career, books, students, and the state of the field, or some combination of these things. keywords: battle; book; thought cache: alusur-7034.pdf plain text: alusur-7034.txt item: #67 of 133 id: alusur-7036 author: Cook, Michael title: Muḥammad’s Deputies in Medina date: 2015-11-15 words: 37353 flesch: 78 summary: Abū Dujāna al-Sāʿidī SS 3-4:601.11 (Sibāʿ ibn ʿUrfuṭa al-Ghifārī)66 The third list is provided by Khalīfa in his Taʾrīkh.67 Note also the statement of al-Haytham ibn ʿAdī (d. c. 206/821) that Muḥammad appointed Ibn Umm Maktūm deputy over Medina for most of his expeditions (fī akthar ghazawātihi, see Balādhurī, Ansāb, ed. keywords: abū; al-ʿuṣūr; barr; deputies; deputy; expedition; ibn abī; ibn al; ibn hishām; ibn isḥāq; ibn maslama; ibn maẓʿūn; ibn saʿd; ibn umm; ibn ʿabd; ibn ʿurfuṭa; ibn ḥabīb; ibn ḥazm; ibn ḥāritha; istīʿāb; khalīfa; maktūm; medina; muḥammad al; muḥammad ibn; names; ruhm al; sachau; sibāʿ ibn; sources; taʾrīkh al; umm maktūm; wusṭā; wāqidī; zayd ibn; ʿabd al; ʿabdallāh al; ʿabdallāh ibn; ʿumrat al; ʿuthmān ibn; ṭabaqāt cache: alusur-7036.pdf plain text: alusur-7036.txt item: #68 of 133 id: alusur-7037 author: Melchert, Christopher title: Māwardī’s Legal Thinking date: 2015-11-15 words: 11344 flesch: 67 summary: It draws heavily on the Persian and Hellenistic traditions as well as on the Arabo-Islamic.32 The fourth seems to be one of his earliest works, from about 393/1002-3.33 Dedicated to the Buwayhid prince Bahā’ al-Dawlah, it too draws for its quotations on both the Persian and Islamic imperial traditions (Anūshirvān and Ardashīr on the Persian side, various Umayyad and ʿAbbāsid caliphs and their governors on the Islamic), besides various unnamed ḥukamā’, some evidently in the Hellenistic tradition.34 An unpublished manuscript in the Escorial titled al-Faḍā’il 24. Al-Wizārah mentions wazīr al-tanfīdh but says nothing of his religion.26 One might infer from such differences the evolution of Māwardī’s thinking, on the assumption that al-Wizārah is an early work and al-Aḥkām a late; however, it would be difficult to distinguish between differences occasioned by the evolution of his thought and others occasioned by genre and limits on length, and I attempt no systematic comparison here. keywords: abū; al-ʿuṣūr al; beirut; dār al; example; hadith; ibn; ibn al; islamic; law; muḥammad; māwardī; prayer; ritual; school; shāfiʿi; studies; virgin; vols; waqf; wusṭā; ʿabd al; ḥāwī cache: alusur-7037.pdf plain text: alusur-7037.txt item: #69 of 133 id: alusur-7039 author: Conrad, Lawrence I. title: Ibn Aʿtham and His History date: 2015-11-15 words: 23959 flesch: 61 summary: the Literary Source Material (Princeton: Darwin Press, 1992), 314 n. 165. 65. See Ibn Aʿtham, Kitāb al-futūḥ, I, 2:3-5:4, with the lacuna filled by the Bankipore Text, 20:16-30:8 (= Muranyi, “Ein neuer Bericht,” 239-47). Ibn Aʿtham, Kitāb al-futūḥ, I, 126:1-132:5. keywords: abū; account; al-ʿuṣūr al; arabic; author; aʿtham al; book; caliphate; century; conrad; date; death; early; end; fact; futūḥ; futūḥ al; history; ibid; ibn al; ibn aʿtham; isnāds; kitāb al; material; muḥammad; persian; second; shīʿī; sources; text; viii; work; wusṭā; ʿalī cache: alusur-7039.pdf plain text: alusur-7039.txt item: #70 of 133 id: alusur-7041 author: Antrim, Zayde title: Stephennie Mulder, The Shrines of the ʿAlids in Medieval Syria date: 2015-11-15 words: 2681 flesch: 55 summary: See ʿAbd Allāh al-Badrī, Nuzhat al-anām fī mahāsin al-Shām not, however, weaken Mulder’s overall conclusion, which is that the patronage and visitation of ʿAlid shrines in medieval Damascus were popular acts among the city’s overwhelmingly Sunni residents and that despite powerful Sunni voices criticizing such acts in the written record there were others (such as al-Badrī in the passage referred to above) who supported and defended them. In Shrines of the ʿAlids in Medieval Syria, however, Damascus is transformed into a diverse city in which ordinary people, wealthy patrons, and bookish scholars – Sunnis and Shiʿis, men and women alike – have mingled together in ʿAlid shrines for hundreds of years. keywords: e n; mulder; shrines cache: alusur-7041.pdf plain text: alusur-7041.txt item: #71 of 133 id: alusur-7042 author: Donner, Fred M. title: Robert Hoyland, In God’s Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire date: 2015-11-15 words: 3745 flesch: 60 summary: But, important though it is, this is not an approach new with Hoyland, and precisely because the book is intended for non-specialists, he has a responsibility to make clear (if only in a few brief notes) that he is continuing on 1. Robert Hoyland, Seeing Islam As Others Saw It: A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam (Princeton: Darwin Press, 1997). Hoyland is certainly correct to point out the tendency of later Islamic sources to “Islamicize” the conquest movement, projecting their later understandings back to the origins period of the community. keywords: arab; conquests; hoyland; islamic cache: alusur-7042.pdf plain text: alusur-7042.txt item: #72 of 133 id: alusur-7043 author: Melchert, Christopher title: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Maḥjūbī, Al-Muṣṭalaḥ al-ḥadīthī min khilāl Kitāb al-Jarḥ wa-al-taʿdīl li-Ibn Abī Ḥātim al-Rāzī date: 2015-11-15 words: 556 flesch: 71 summary: The dubious underlying assumption is evidently that characterizations of men are effectively observations of fact, so that Ibn ʿĀdī and the rest must have meant exactly the same thing as Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn. Fairly often, Maḥjūbī goes beyond identifying usage in al-Jarḥ wa-al- taʿdīl, as when he interprets Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn’s calling someone ṣuwayliḥ by means of quoting Ibn ʿĀdī, al-Dhahabī, and Ibn Ḥajar concerning the same man (134-5). keywords: ibn cache: alusur-7043.pdf plain text: alusur-7043.txt item: #73 of 133 id: alusur-7044 author: Vacca, Alison M. title: Seta Dadoyan, The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World: Paradigms of Interaction, Seventh to Fourteenth Centuries. date: 2015-11-15 words: 2379 flesch: 67 summary: Ḥabīb b. Maslama at all.13 Dadoyan’s footnote for Samuēl Anec‘i’s rendition of the treaty points the reader not to the Hawak‘munk‘ itself, but to a passage from a modern study of Armenian history that does not mention Samuēl at all. Significantly, the first volume of The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World is approachable and encourages students of Armenian history to read the Armenian texts against the grain. keywords: armenian cache: alusur-7044.pdf plain text: alusur-7044.txt item: #74 of 133 id: alusur-7045 author: Martin Varisco, Daniel title: Ṭaha Ḥusayn ʿAwaḍ Hudayl, Tamarrudāt al-qabīla fī ʿaṣr al-dawla al-Rasūlīya wa-atharhā fī al-ḥayāt al-ʿāmma fī al-Yaman date: 2015-11-15 words: 459 flesch: 59 summary: The Intro- duction (pp. 15-20) lays out the purpose of the book, which is to highlight the inter- action of Yemeni tribes with the Rasulid state. The third part concentrates on the Yemeni tribes ʿAkk, al-Ashʿār, Madhḥaj and Ḥimyar, but also discusses other specific tribes as they related to the Rasulid state. keywords: tribes cache: alusur-7045.pdf plain text: alusur-7045.txt item: #75 of 133 id: alusur-7046 author: Webb, Peter title: Aziz al-Azmeh, The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity: Allāh and His People date: 2015-11-15 words: 3120 flesch: 71 summary: al-Wusṭā 23 (2015) 152 • Peter Webb the memories of pre-Islam became the property of Iraqi Muslims and often took on new significations, some seemingly different to the ‘reality’ of pre-Islamic times. One reference in the reconstituted ‘source’ of the second/eighth Ibn Isḥāq’s biography of Muhammad is quoted as evidence for the ‘fact’ that pre-Islamic Arabs had a habit of rubbing their bodies on idols (226). keywords: e n cache: alusur-7046.pdf plain text: alusur-7046.txt item: #76 of 133 id: alusur-7047 author: Yarbrough, Luke title: Jāsim Muḥammad Kaẓim, Ahl al-dhimmah fī al-mujtamaʿ al-Baghdādī fī al-ʿahdayn al-Buwayhī wa-al-Saljūqī date: 2015-11-15 words: 3422 flesch: 70 summary: One struggles, in fact, to find Arabic historiography on ahl al-dhimmah as such before 1949, when Arthur Stanley Tritton’s foundational The Caliphs and their Non-Muslim Subjects first appeared in Arabic translation (Ahl al-dhimmah fī al-Islām, tr. Ḥ. Ḥabashī. But since then the studies have followed in quickening succession: • Qāsim ʿAbduh Qāsim, Ahl al-dhimmah fī Miṣr al-ʿuṣūr al-wusṭā: dirāsah wathāʾiqiyyah (Cairo, 1977 • Idem, Ahl al-dhimma fī Miṣr min al-fatḥ al-islāmī ḥattā nihāyat dawlat al-Mamālīk (al-Haram, 2003) • Sallām Shāfiʿī Maḥmūd, Ahl al-dhimmah fī Miṣr fī al-ʿaṣr al-Fāṭimī Jāsim Muḥammad Kaẓim, Ahl al-dhimmah fī al-mujtamaʿ al-Baghdādī fī al-ʿahdayn al-Buwayhī wa-al-Saljūqī (Baghdad: keywords: non cache: alusur-7047.pdf plain text: alusur-7047.txt item: #77 of 133 id: alusur-7048 author: Bacharach, Jere L. title: Irene “Renie” A. Bierman-McKinney date: 2015-11-15 words: 1012 flesch: 66 summary: Renie then went to work on her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, which had no one in Islamic art history. In fact Renie is the only major scholar of her generation in Islamic art history who was not trained by either Oleg Grabar at Harvard or Richard Ettinghausen in New York. keywords: renie cache: alusur-7048.pdf plain text: alusur-7048.txt item: #78 of 133 id: alusur-7049 author: Azad , Arezou title: Clifford Edmund Bosworth date: 2015-11-15 words: 7254 flesch: 70 summary: by his own account4—the Journal of Semitic Studies, and the UNESCO series on The History of Civilizations in Central Asia, as well as numerous major translation projects in advanced age, Edmund Bosworth never lacked the time to meet and support the lowliest of scholars—myself included (I had the pleasure of Edmund’s acquaint- ance and mentorship in the last decade of his life). “Like Edmund Bosworth I have always eschewed the decent obscurity of Latin,” he declares.27 Edmund’s penchant for the underworld might also be reflected in his fine collection of Penguin original crime fiction editions.28 23. keywords: bosworth; e e; e l; e n; edmund; h e; history; islamic; n d; studies; university cache: alusur-7049.pdf plain text: alusur-7049.txt item: #79 of 133 id: alusur-7050 author: O’Neal, Michael title: Clifford Edmund Bosworth: An Updated Bibliography date: 2015-11-15 words: 17999 flesch: 77 summary: “A pioneer Arabic encyclopedia of the sciences: al Khwārizmī’s Keys of the Sciences”, Isis, LIV/1 (1963), 97–111. “Abū al-ʽAmaythal (d. 240/854)”; “Abū Dulaf (fourth/tenth century)”; “Abū Zayd al-Balkhī, Aḥmad (c.235–322/c.849–934)”; In Memoriam: Clifford Edmund Bosworth Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 23 (2015): 208 “Aḥmad Ibn Mājid (late ninth-early tenth/late fifteenth-early sixteenth century)”; “Alexander the Great”; “ʽAlī Ibn Abī Ṭālib (d. 40/660)”; “al-ʽĀmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn (953– 1030/1547–1621)”; “al-ʽAttābī, Kulthūm Ibn ʽAmr (d. 208 or 220/823 or 835)”; “al-Būṣīrī (608–c.694/1212–c.1294)”; “Būyids”; “Ibn Abī Uṣaybʽa (c.590–668/c.1194–1270)”; “Ibn ʽAsākir (499–571/1105–76)”; “Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʽUmar”; “Ibn Faḍlān, Aḥmad (fl. keywords: 3rd; abū; al-ʿuṣūr; al-ʿuṣūr al; arabic; art; arts; asia; aḥmad; bosworth; c.e; cambridge; central; century; clifford; dīn; east; edmund; eds; ei2; eir; historical; history; ibn; iii; iran; islamic; item; journal; jras; jss; leiden; london; medieval; memoriam; middle; minorsky; muḥammad; new; period; persian; publ; reprinted; reviews; ser; society; studies; university; vii; vol; world; wusṭā; york cache: alusur-7050.pdf plain text: alusur-7050.txt item: #80 of 133 id: alusur-8287 author: Antrim, Zayde title: Qamarayn: The Erotics of Sameness in the 1001 Nights date: 2020-10-01 words: 25988 flesch: 61 summary: The emphasis seems to be on firmness rather than size, which is sustained by more figurative descriptions of the term “chest” (ṣadr) upon which “two pots” (ḥuqqān) or “pomegranates” (rummān) may appear.32 Significantly, this latter metaphor also appears in the poem that opens this article, which is repeated in two different stories to describe a he-character, raising questions about the extent to which breasts can be understood to sex the body.33 Reinforcing this impression of embodied sameness, both he- and she-characters are described as possessing “soft curves” (līnat al-aʿṭāf) and “hips/haunches/buttocks” (ridf) that are “quivering” (murtijj), “full to bursting” (daghaṣ), or “heavy” (thaqīl).34 Similarly, necks, arms, thighs, and bellies are praised for being soft, smooth, and silky; the belly and its navel, folds, or creaminess in particular function as a catalyst for sexual arousal in the stories.35 The provocative sight of the belly, rather than the genitals, cannot be attributed 29. See Lyons with Lyons, trans., The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, 3 vols. keywords: al-ʿuṣūr al; arabe; arabic; beauty; bnf; bnf arabe; bodies; body; budur; bulaq; calcutta; century; characters; difference; erotics; fifteenth; fol; gender; king; literature; mahdi; manuscript; new; nights; press; qamar al; sameness; sex; stories; story; university; women; wusṭā; zaman cache: alusur-8287.pdf plain text: alusur-8287.txt item: #81 of 133 id: alusur-8409 author: Treadwell, Luke title: Who Compiled and Edited the Mashhad Miscellany? date: 2020-10-01 words: 16039 flesch: 65 summary: This apparatus includes both the introductory remarks with which they prefaced the miscellany’s texts and the critical comments that they inserted in the Risālas of Abū Dulaf. From the final paragraph of Section 5 onward, reference will be made to Abū Dulaf as the editor of the miscellany. keywords: abū dulaf; al-ʿuṣūr al; author; b. al; book; buldān; editors; faqīh; ibn al; ibn faḍlān; iran; islamic; journey; kitāb al; manuscript; mashhad; mashhad miscellany; miscellany; passages; risāla; second; section; text; treadwell; turks; version; wusṭā cache: alusur-8409.pdf plain text: alusur-8409.txt item: #82 of 133 id: alusur-8410 author: Bruning, Jelle title: A Call to Arms: An Account of Ayyubid or Early Mamluk Alexandria date: 2020-10-01 words: 19978 flesch: 80 summary: Aḥmad b. Muṭarrif, al-Tartīb fī al-lugha, 2:18–19 (copied in Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʿUmarī, Masālik al-abṣār, 91); al-Gharnāṭī, Tuḥfat al-albāb (wa-nukhbat al-aʿjāb), ed. Tuḥfat al-albāb (wa-nukhbat al-aʿjāb). keywords: account; al-ʿuṣūr al; alexandria; arabic; ayyubid; b. al; beirut; cairo; city; dār al; early; fī al; gate; ibn al; ibn ʿabd; kitāb al; kutub; leiden; lighthouse; mamluk; manuscript; mirror; mosque; muslim; muḥammad; para; ribāṭ; text; wahhāb; wusṭā; ʿabd al cache: alusur-8410.pdf plain text: alusur-8410.txt item: #83 of 133 id: alusur-8411 author: Tayyara, Abed el-Rahman title: The Rebellious Son: Umayyad Hereditary Succession and the Origins of Ḥijāzī Opposition date: 2020-10-01 words: 17016 flesch: 71 summary: In With Reverence for the Word: Medieval Scriptural Exegesis in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, edited by Jane McAuliffe et al., 320–28. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān not only denied the Day of Judgment but also claimed that none of the deceased Qurayshite 20. keywords: 46:17; abī; al-ʿilmiyya; al-ʿuṣūr al; allāh; b. al; beirut; dār al; early; ibn al; islamic; kutub; muʿāwiya; muḥammad; narrative; press; qurʾān; raḥmān; scholars; son; succession; tafsīr al; taʾrīkh; umayyad; vols; wusṭā; ʿabd al; ḥadīth cache: alusur-8411.pdf plain text: alusur-8411.txt item: #84 of 133 id: alusur-8412 author: van Bladel, Kevin title: A Brief History of Islamic Civilization from Its Genesis in the Late Nineteenth Century to Its Institutional Entrenchment date: 2020-10-01 words: 12480 flesch: 49 summary: Recognizing this, specialists continue to posit modified, hybrid, and rationalized Islamic civilizations, sometimes using different terminology for the same effect.46 Even if Islamic civilization foundations and journals keep their names, can historians abandon Islamic civilization and enhance their analysis? Social scientists affirm or deny Islamic civilization, sometimes with pseudoscience.44 Islamic civilization forms a unitary target for polemicists as much as it does a unitary platform for apologists. keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; century; chicago; civilization; education; grunebaum; history; hodgson; islamic; middle; muslim; new; press; studies; university; von; western; world; wusṭā cache: alusur-8412.pdf plain text: alusur-8412.txt item: #85 of 133 id: alusur-8413 author: Pierre, Simon title: Le stylite (esṭūnōrō) et sa ṣawmaʿa face aux milieux cléricaux islamiques et miaphysites (Ier–IIe / VIIe-VIIIe siècles) date: 2020-10-01 words: 27697 flesch: 71 summary: jusqu’à ce que l’évêque du pays en ait été informé !221 Cet élément montre que de nombreux reclus et stylites entouraient les abbés et officiaient comme ministres du culte (šammōšē), parfois à la limite de la légalité canonique. Comment, et à partir de quand, le terme ṣawmaʿa était-il devenu une traduction acceptable pour l’esṭūnō syriaque keywords: abū; ainsi; al-ʿuṣūr al; alors; arabes; aurait; aussi; aux; avait; bakr; beyrouth; ces; cette; ceux; chronique; chrétiens; colonne; comme; dans; dans la; de la; des; des stylites; des ṣawmaʿa; deux; dès; dār al; d’un; entre; est; esṭūnōrō; et al; et de; et le; et sa; eux; forme; fut; ibid; ibn; ici; ils; islam; le stylite; les; leur; lui; l’église; l’époque; mais; moines; monastère; musulmans; même; non; nous; par; paris; pas; pierre; point; pour; press; propos; que; qui; qu’il; reclus; sa ṣawmaʿa; saint; sans; selon; ses; siméon; siècle; solitaires; son; sont; stylites; sur; sur la; syriac; syriaque; syrien; syro; terme; tour; tout; tradition; une; university; vie; viiie; voir; vol; wusṭā; édité; édité par; églises; était; été; être; ḥadīṯ; ṣawmaʿa cache: alusur-8413.pdf plain text: alusur-8413.txt item: #86 of 133 id: alusur-8414 author: Garnier, Sébastien; Klasova, Pamela; Keegan, Matthew L. title: Introduction: A Note from the Holbergians date: 2020-10-01 words: 1350 flesch: 53 summary: Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 28 (2020): 228-230 On the last day of each year’s Holberg Seminar, we Holbergians would gather at the home of Michael Cook and his wife Kim for a delicious and delightful dinner. Rather spontaneously, each member of the group shared their own reflections and heartfelt thanks to Michael, to Kim, and to the professors and graduate students who made up the Holberg Seminar. keywords: holberg; holbergians; michael; seminar cache: alusur-8414.pdf plain text: alusur-8414.txt item: #87 of 133 id: alusur-8415 author: Borrut, Antoine title: Introduction: The Holberg Seminar date: 2020-10-01 words: 725 flesch: 48 summary: Michael invited Khaled El-Rouayheb (Harvard University), Jack Tannous (Princeton University), and myself to assist in organizing the seminar, starting with the selection of participants. Another option was for participants to give a talk on a topic of interest, such as new scholarly trends or recent publications. keywords: participants; seminar; students cache: alusur-8415.pdf plain text: alusur-8415.txt item: #88 of 133 id: alusur-8416 author: Beers, Theodore S. title: The Treatment of Coeval Persian Poetry in Arabic Anthologies of the Eleventh/Seventeenth Century: A Preliminary Study date: 2020-10-01 words: 11919 flesch: 65 summary: Rayḥānat al-alibbā wa-zahrat al-ḥayāt al-dunyā. At this point in the notice, al-Muḥibbī wishes to transition to quoting ʿUrfī’s poetry, but he remarks that he “did not come upon any Arabic poem by him that has been conveyed by transmitters” (lam aqif lahu ʿalā shiʿr ʿarabī tanquluhu al-ruwāt). keywords: al-ʿaṣr; al-ʿuṣūr; anthologies; arabic; coeval; edition; ibn; maʿṣūm; muḥammad; muḥibbī; nafḥat; nafḥat al; persian; poetry; poets; rayḥāna; sadd; sulāfat; tehran; treatment; work; wusṭā; ṣāʾib cache: alusur-8416.pdf plain text: alusur-8416.txt item: #89 of 133 id: alusur-8417 author: Garnier, Sébastien title: Dans le ventre de l’histoire: Sindbad le marin ou la satire du glouton? date: 2020-10-01 words: 8988 flesch: 77 summary: 2. Toute étude sur les Voyages se heurte à la question des sources, de leurs éditions et traductions. Néanmoins, c’est en provoquant ces mêmes animaux qu’il se procure quantité de noix de coco et réalise des affaires florissantes. keywords: ainsi; al-ʿuṣūr; aux; bencheikh; c’est; dans; des; deux; d’un; faim; ici; layla; les; lui; l’histoire; mais; manger; marin; mer; mille; nous; nuits; par; paris; pas; pour; que; qui; qu’il; ses; sindbad; son; sur; une; ventre; voir; voyages; wusṭā; île cache: alusur-8417.pdf plain text: alusur-8417.txt item: #90 of 133 id: alusur-8418 author: Keegan, Matthew L. title: Adab without the Crusades: The Inebriated Solidarity of a Young Officer’s Hunting Epistle date: 2020-10-01 words: 12693 flesch: 66 summary: It is therefore not simply a story of Yaghmur’s personal experience but a more general account of fleeting pleasures in the face of the terrible triumvirate of Time (al-zamān), Fickle Fortune (al-dahr), and the Passing Days (al-ayyām).3 Yaghmur’s epistle begins by urging the reader to face the uncertainties of Fate (al-qadar) by seizing the day (ightinām al-ʿumr), but it ends with the recognition that all 1. ʿ Imād al-Dīn al-Iṣfahānī, Kharīdat al-qaṣr wa-jarīdat ahl al-ʿaṣr (Levant), ed. ʿImād al-Dīn calls Yaghmur an “Arabized Turk (min muwalladī al-atrāk) and one of Damascus’s well-known military men (umarāʾihā al-maʿrūfīn).”11 What this epistle apparently represents is a text originally composed by someone who was part of a broader military elite but who was marginal to the world of adab and Arabic scholarship. keywords: abū; adab; al-ʿuṣūr; al-ʿuṣūr al; arabic; asceticism; century; companions; crusades; drinking; dīn; epistle; hunting; islamic; keegan; kharīda; mamluk; piety; poetry; solidarity; time; university; wine; wusṭā; yaghmur; ʿimād al cache: alusur-8418.pdf plain text: alusur-8418.txt item: #91 of 133 id: alusur-8419 author: Klasova, Pamela title: Ḥadīth as Common Discourse: Reflections on the Intersectarian Dissemination of the Creation of the Intellect Tradition date: 2020-10-01 words: 26069 flesch: 76 summary: This a verse from a poem by Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Mutanabbī, which starts Malūmukumā yajillu ʿan al-malāmī See Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Mutanabbī, Dīwān al-Mutanabbī (Beirut: Dār Ṣādir, 1964), 483. 136. See my earlier discussion of Dāwūd b. al-Muḥabbir. 137. The ḥadīth of Abū Umāma, in turn, was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī in al-Awsaṭ145 and by Abū al-Shaykh [b. Ḥibbān] in his Kitāb Faḍāʾil al-aʿmāl from the narration of Saʿīd b. al-Faḍl al-Qurashī, who said: “ʿUmar b. keywords: a. al; abī; abū; abū al; al-ʿuṣūr al; authority; b. al; bika; creation; discourse; dār al; existence; god; ibn; imam al; intellect; isnāds; kitāb al; lahu; m. al; maktabat al; muḥammad; muḥammad al; pen; prophet; qāla; second; shīʿī; sunnī; thumma; university; wusṭā; ʿabd; ʿabd al; ʿaql; ḥadīth; ḥakīm al; ṣadrā cache: alusur-8419.pdf plain text: alusur-8419.txt item: #92 of 133 id: alusur-8420 author: Livingston, Daisy title: The Paperwork of a Mamluk Muqṭaʿ: Documentary Life Cycles, Archival Spaces, and the Importance of Documents Lying Around date: 2020-10-01 words: 14400 flesch: 54 summary: The phenomenon of document reuse, for instance, has been highlighted as a practice with profound implications for understanding archiving. The nontextual reuses identified above are challenging to interpret, but they serve to highlight a broader range of document reuses than has previously earned comment. keywords: administrative; al-ʿuṣūr; amirs; archival; archive; collection; corpus; documentary; documents; egypt; life; livingston; mamluk; material; paperwork; practices; preservation; reuse; university; wusṭā cache: alusur-8420.pdf plain text: alusur-8420.txt item: #93 of 133 id: alusur-8421 author: Mauder, Christian title: Being Persian in Late Mamluk Egypt: The Construction and Significance of Persian Ethnic Identity in the Salons of Sultan Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 906–922/1501–1516) date: 2020-10-01 words: 17444 flesch: 59 summary: P. J. Bearman et al., 7:164–177 (Leiden: Brill, 1960–2009), 165. 6. Given the recent boom in the study of Mamluk diplomacy, the following list of relevant studies does not claim to be exhaustive: M. Ağalarlı, “XVI. In The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed., edited by P. J. Bearman et al., 10:716–718. keywords: al-ʿuṣūr al; arabic; cairo; court; egypt; ghawrī; history; identity; islamic; language; late; majālis; mamluk; mauder; medieval; nafāʾis; persian; press; sharīf; studies; sultan; sultan al; sultanate; university; wusṭā; ʿazzām cache: alusur-8421.pdf plain text: alusur-8421.txt item: #94 of 133 id: alusur-8423 author: Van Steenbergen, Jo title: Why Do We Need a New Textbook? date: 2020-10-01 words: 942 flesch: 47 summary: There definitely were great history textbooks out there (Hodgson, Lapidus, Hourani, Endress & Hillenbrand, Egger, Choueiri, Noth & Paul, Haarmann, Garcin, et al.). Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 28 (2020): 409-410 Teaching Note Back in early 2007, when I started teaching an undergraduate survey course on Islamic history, I was frustrated in my search for teaching materials that would align with how I had come to appreciate that history. keywords: history; islamic cache: alusur-8423.pdf plain text: alusur-8423.txt item: #95 of 133 id: alusur-8426 author: Gordon, Matthew title: Amikam Elad, The Rebellion of Muḥammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya in 145/762: Ṭālibīs and Early ʿAbbāsīs in Conflict date: 2020-10-01 words: 1377 flesch: 69 summary: The episode also contributed an early and significant chapter to the long history of Middle Eastern messianism; we owe a goodly portion of the extant literature on al-Nafs al-Zakiyya to the interest of later Muslim Amikam Elad, The Rebellion of Muḥammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya in 145/762: Ṭālibīs and Early ʿAbbāsīs in Conflict. Elad probably knows more about al-Nafs al-Zakiyya than any living scholar and, Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 28 (2020) keywords: elad cache: alusur-8426.pdf plain text: alusur-8426.txt item: #96 of 133 id: alusur-8427 author: Hernández, Adday title: Mālik b. Anas, Al-Muwaṭṭaʾ: The Recension of Yaḥyā b. Yaḥyā al-Laythī; A Translation of the Royal Moroccan Edition date: 2020-10-01 words: 2988 flesch: 63 summary: i o n i n al-Andalus, although apparently it did not influence fiqh substantially in that period.13 Yaḥyā b. Yaḥyā, who had transmitted it to al-Andalus, was then regarded as the introducer of the orthodox canon, which included both the Muwaṭṭaʾ in relation to ḥadīth and Nāfiʿ’s (d. 169/785) qirāʾa (reading variant) of the Qurʾan.14 Y a ḥ y ā b . A n a s ( d . 1 7 9 / 7 9 6 ) , w a s t h e eponym of the school and one of the 1. Jonathan A. C. Brown, “Mālik, the Muwaṭṭaʾ, and Sunni Identity,” Muwaṭṭaʾ Roundtable, Islamic Law Blog, December 7, 2019, https://islamiclaw.blog/2019/12/07/malik-muwatta-sunni-identity/. 2. Mālik b. keywords: muwaṭṭaʾ; yaḥyā cache: alusur-8427.pdf plain text: alusur-8427.txt item: #97 of 133 id: alusur-8428 author: Schönléber, Mónika title: Ibn Aʿtham al-Kūfī, Qiṭʿa min Kitāb al-futūḥ, li-l-ʿallāma al-muʾarrikh Abī Muḥammad Aḥmad b. Aʿtham al-Kūfī, al-mutawaffā baʿda sanat 320 h, qūbilat ʿalā nuskha qadīma min al-qarn al-sādis al-hijrī, akhrajahu wa-waḍaʿa fahārisahu Markaz Iḥyāʾ al-Turāth a date: 2020-10-01 words: 4928 flesch: 71 summary: A ʿ t h a m al-Kūfī’s Kitāb al-futūḥ, made by Qays al-ʿAṭṭār and printed in 2017 in Karbalāʾ, Iraq.1 Although the Kitāb al-futūḥ has been edited several times over the past half-century, the present volume deserves special attention as it is based on a manuscript—MS Ankara (Saib 5418), kept in Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Kütüphanesi of Ankara University—that has not been used for any of the work’s previous printed editions. Mustawfī, Tarjuma-yi Kitāb al-futūḥ, ed. keywords: aʿtham; futūḥ; ibn; kitāb cache: alusur-8428.pdf plain text: alusur-8428.txt item: #98 of 133 id: alusur-8429 author: Hámori, András title: Al-Muḥassin b. ʿAlī al-Tanūkhī, Stories of Piety and Prayer: Deliverance Follows Adversity date: 2020-10-01 words: 3152 flesch: 76 summary: al-Wusṭā 28 (2020) Al-Muḥassin b. ʿAlī al-Tanūkhī’s Stories of Piety and Prayer • 432 tunabbī ʿan tafaḍḍuli allāhi ʿazza wa-jalla ʿalā man ḥaṣala qablahu fī maḥṣalihi wa-nazala bihi mithlu balāʾihi wa-muʿḍilihi bimā atāḥahu lahu min ṣunʿin amsaka bihi al-armāqa wa-maʿūnatin ḥulla bihā min al-khināqi wa-luṭfin gharībin najjāhu wa-farajin ʿajībin anqadhahu wa-talāfāhu, wa-in khafiyat tilka al-asbābu wa-lam tablugh mā ḥadatha min dhālika al-fikru wa-l-ḥisābu . . . ʿ Alī al-Tanūkhī, al-Faraj baʿd al-shidda, ed. keywords: tanūkhī cache: alusur-8429.pdf plain text: alusur-8429.txt item: #99 of 133 id: alusur-8430 author: Ballan, Mohamad title: Luke B. Yarbrough, Friends of the Emir: Non-Muslim State Officials in Premodern Islamic Thought date: 2020-10-01 words: 4478 flesch: 67 summary: Throughout the chapter, Yarbrough highlights how Muslim jurists developed diverse rationales for limiting, discouraging, or prohibiting the employment of non-Muslim officials; how these rationales were frequently repeated and developed during moments of tension with states or non-Muslim elites; and how jurists sought, above all, to mediate between their madhhab traditions and contemporary exigencies. Chapter 2 (“Preludes to the Discourse: Non-Muslim Officials and Late Ancient Antecedents”) presents a synchronic study of non-Muslim officials and the reasons for their employment while surveying late antique discourses around dissenting officials, particularly surviving writings on non-Christian officials in the Eastern R o m a n E m p keywords: e n cache: alusur-8430.pdf plain text: alusur-8430.txt item: #100 of 133 id: alusur-8431 author: Varisco, Daniel title: Al-Malik al-Afḍal al-ʿAbbās b. ʿAlī b. Dāwūd al-Rasūlī, Bughyat al-fallāḥīn fī al-ashjār al-muthmira wa-l-rayāḥīn date: 2020-10-01 words: 2881 flesch: 71 summary: I suspect that al-Afḍal is quoting his father about al-Ashraf here, since this is the usual formula used. al-Wahībī misreads the Cairo manuscript, which I read as taṭammu rather than yaḍummu; the verb taṭammu is used in the text of Ibn al-Waḥshiyya.11 I suspect that the reference on p. 198, line 4, is to grapevines in the village of al-Janāt, as in the Cairo manuscript, rather than al-jibāl. keywords: copy; manuscript; text; yemen cache: alusur-8431.pdf plain text: alusur-8431.txt item: #101 of 133 id: alusur-8432 author: Durand-Guédy, David title: Jean Aubin, Études sur l’Iran médiéval: Géographie historique et société date: 2020-10-01 words: 3280 flesch: 64 summary: Although Aubin’s analysis stands the test of time remarkably well, many critical editions have since been published (for example: Bayhaqī in article 7; Shabānkāraʾī in article 9; Ibn Bazzāz in articles 11–13; Faryūmadī in article 17).6 In Iran, Aubin (Ūbin) is known mostly through translations of articles quoting him, starting with Denise Aigle’s collection of articles (The Mongol Empire between Myth and Reality: Studies in Anthropological History [Leiden: Brill, 2015]). keywords: article; aubin; history; iran; volume cache: alusur-8432.pdf plain text: alusur-8432.txt item: #102 of 133 id: alusur-8433 author: Sharma, Sunil title: Nile Green, ed., The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca & Abbas Amanat and Assef Ashraf, eds., The Persianate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere date: 2020-10-01 words: 2896 flesch: 58 summary: The underlying questions in the volume edited by Amanat and Ashraf, as articulated in the introduction by Ashraf and the first essay by Amanat (“Remembering the Persianate”), are whether the “category of Iran” can effectively be marginalized in Persianate studies, and how Iranian s t u Stressing the existence of a vast sociocultural sphere connected by Persophonie (fārsī-zabān), a harmonious “comfort zone,” the editors emphasize the viability of Persianate studies as an academic field whose purview extends beyond language and literature. keywords: e s; persianate; world cache: alusur-8433.pdf plain text: alusur-8433.txt item: #103 of 133 id: alusur-8434 author: Walravens, Meia title: Emma J. Flatt, The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates: Living Well in the Persian Cosmopolis date: 2020-10-01 words: 3153 flesch: 59 summary: n c e p t , engaging with Sheldon Pollock’s work on the Sanskrit Cosmopolis, as well as with Richard Eaton’s and Philip Wagoner’s use of the term Persian Cosmopolis (pp. 17–24). She explains that the way a courtier in the Persian Cosmopolis thought about what constitutes courtliness and how to achieve it was influenced by the idea, prevalent in Islamic advice literature as well as in Sufi thought and medico-philosophical theories, that both the body and the character were malleable and could be perfected (or corrupted) via internal and external forces. keywords: deccan; flatt; persian cache: alusur-8434.pdf plain text: alusur-8434.txt item: #104 of 133 id: alusur-8435 author: Mauder, Christian title: Thomas Bauer, Warum es kein islamisches Mittelalter gab: Das Erbe der Antike und der Orient date: 2020-10-01 words: 3513 flesch: 60 summary: 3. For a useful overview of current systems of periodization of Islamic history and the debates about them, see F. Donner, “Periodization as a Tool of the Historian with Special Reference to Islamic History,” Der Islam 91, no. 1 (2014): 20–36, especially 28–36; and with regard to early Islam in particular, A. Borrut, “Vanishing Syria: Periodization and Power in Early Islam,” Der Islam 91, no. 1 (2014): 37–68. f o r m “medieval”—English scholarly litera- ture about Islam and Islamic history. keywords: islamic cache: alusur-8435.pdf plain text: alusur-8435.txt item: #105 of 133 id: alusur-8484 author: Thomas Miller, Matthew title: The Poetics of the Sufi Carnival: The Rogue Lyrics (Qalandariyyāt) as Heterotopic Countergenre(s) date: 2022-04-01 words: 26029 flesch: 61 summary: The turn away from the Kaʿba in this poem (and, in other qalandarī poems, the turn away from the mosque, ascetics’ lodge, etc.) is, in a sense, a metaphoric performance of the qalandarī poet’s rejection of the poetic world of ascetic-homiletic and royal court poetry. Lewis seems to gesture toward this type as well when he remarks in the introduction to his discussion of a selection of Sanāʾī’s qalandarī ghazals that “the genre [qalandarī poems] frequently assumes an anthem-like quality, celebrating spiritual virtues of debauchery.” keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; arabic; dīn; dīvān; early; fakhr; figure; genre; ghazal; islamic; line; literature; meaning; medieval; meisami; miller; mock; new; panegyric; persian; poem; poetic; poetry; press; qalandariyyāt; qalandarī; rogue; sanāʾī; studies; sufi; tehran; tradition; type; university; wine; winehouse; world; wusṭā; york; ʿaṭṭār; ʿirāqī cache: alusur-8484.pdf plain text: alusur-8484.txt item: #106 of 133 id: alusur-8556 author: Weitz, Lev title: The Long Arm of the Provincial Law: A Custody Battle in a Qāḍī Petition from the Medieval Fayyūm date: 2022-04-08 words: 16487 flesch: 67 summary: It appears more certain that Ṭalīt’s majlis al-ḥukm was a local center of judicial activity and that, whatever the title of its chief authority, Ṭuṭūn-related matters fell under its purview. The Long Arm of the Provincial Law • 59 the Christian character of Ṭuṭūn gives one to suspect that Ṭalīt’s majlis al-ḥukm served as the local center of Islamic legal services for its neighboring village.31 We can thus imagine that Ṭuṭūnites would have made the short four-kilometer walk to Ṭalīt to get their legal documents drawn up and registered, and there encountered the Banū Rizq and other locals who served the court.32 No doubt more members of this family will turn up as more documents are published and studied.33 Overall, the Banū Rizq’s literacy and connections to their local court suggest that they constituted part of the Muslim civilian elite of the southern Fayyūm. keywords: al-ʿuṣūr al; arabic; arm; b. al; b. rizq; century; child; custody; document; dār al; egypt; father; fatimid; fayyūm; grandmother; ibn; ibrāhīm; islamic; judge; law; muḥammad; petition; qāḍī; rizq; wusṭā; ʿabd al; ḥasan; ṭuṭūn cache: alusur-8556.pdf plain text: alusur-8556.txt item: #107 of 133 id: alusur-8598 author: Munt, Harry title: The Umayyad and Early Abbasid Inscriptions in the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina date: 2022-06-27 words: 37935 flesch: 73 summary: From Classical to Modern Times, edited by C. Edmund Bosworth et al., 95–111. Saʿd b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Rāshid et al., Āthār minṭaqat Makka al-mukarrama (Riyadh: Wizārat al-Maʿārif, Wikālat al-Āthār wa-l-Matāḥif, 1423/2003), 122. keywords: abbasid; abū al; akhbār al; al-ʿabbās al; al-ʿuṣūr al; allāh al; amīr al; aʿlāq al; b. al; bāb al; caliph; commander; discussion; durra al; dār al; early; et al; god; hārūn al; ibn al; inscriptions; islamic; jaʿfar al; kitāb al; madīna al; maghānim al; mahdī; makka al; maktabat al; manāsik; masjid al; medina; mosque; muʾassasat al; muḥammad al; nafs al; prophet; samhūdī; taʾrīkh al; text; umayyad; wafāʾ al; work; wusṭā; yaḥyā; ʿabd al; ʿabd allāh cache: alusur-8598.pdf plain text: alusur-8598.txt item: #108 of 133 id: alusur-8608 author: Miller, Nathaniel A. title: Dear Muʿāwiya: An “Epistolary” Poem on a Major Muslim Military Defeat during the Mediterranean Campaigns of AH 28–35/649–56 CE date: 2023-03-13 words: 16958 flesch: 69 summary: See, for example, A. F. L. Beeston et al., Sabaic Dictionary/Dictionaire Sabéen (Louvain-la-Neuve: Peeters; Beirut: Roger S. Bagnall et al., 383–84 (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, 2012); L. S. B. MacCoull, “BM 1079, CPR IX 44, and the Chrysargyron,” keywords: abī; abū; abū al-ʿiyāl; al-ʿiyāl; al-ʿuṣūr al; b. al; badr; constantinople; dear; egypt; history; ibn; ibn saʿd; islamic; kitāb al; military; muslim; muʿāwiya; oxford; poem; press; pseudo; saʿd; sebēos; university; wusṭā; ʿabd al; ʿamr; ʿuthmān; ṭabarī cache: alusur-8608.pdf plain text: alusur-8608.txt item: #109 of 133 id: alusur-8698 author: Schine, Rachel title: Translating Race in the Islamic Studies Classroom date: 2022-11-27 words: 34636 flesch: 55 summary: Robert L. Reece, “Color Crit: Critical Race Theory and the History and Future of Colorism in the United States,” Journal of Black Studies 50, no. 1 (2019): 3–25, at 21. 365 • Rachel Schine Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 30 (2022) like a flat “cow-like” nose (furṭūsuhu ka-furṭūs al-ʿijl).206 When Fāṭima’s father first sees the child, he remarks not that he is dark, but that he is “of the Black kind” (aswad al-jins), whom another tribesman remarks are “not lineally exchangeable with” and “completely unlike” white people (nasl al-bīḍ mā yabdulu bi-sūd, wa-laysa al-bīḍ ḥaqqan mithla sūd).207 This split perception overlaps strongly with the divide between the heroes and villains and their supporters and detractors in the text, such that the pious Arab-Muslim figures with whom ʿAbd al-Wahhāb is most aligned acknowledge his group membership and likeness to them while their Christianized detractors do not, focusing instead on his stereotyped blackness. Scrutiny of animal pedigrees, using the tools of ʿilm al-ansāb, could explain everything from the makeup of one’s own camel herd to the exotic appearances of rare creatures at the world’s far edges—erudite trivia that is adab’s bread and butter. keywords: abbasid; african; al-ʿuṣūr al; arabic; arabic literature; arabs; black; cambridge; century; classroom; difference; dār al; east; faḍlān; history; human; ibid; ibn; ibn al; ibn faḍlān; islamic; journal; library; literature; medieval; middle; montgomery; muslim; muḥammad al; nasab; new; new york; non; penguin; people; press; qutayba; race; rachel; racialization; racism; schine; slavery; studies; term; text; translation; tūnisī; university; university press; use; wahhāb; ways; white; world; wusṭā; york; ʿabd al; ʿantara cache: alusur-8698.pdf plain text: alusur-8698.txt item: #110 of 133 id: alusur-8799 author: McLaren, Andrew title: Dating Ibn Aʿtham’s History: Of Persian Manuscripts, Obscure Biographies, and Incomplete Isnāds date: 2022-09-19 words: 27496 flesch: 72 summary: I Lindstedt et al., 103–30. Compare Ibn Aʿtham, Futūḥ, 4:205–6 (in which al-Ḥasan dies naturally) with Mustawfī, Futūḥ, 789–91 (in which al-Ḥasan is poisoned in a conspiracy led by his erstwhile opponent, Muʿāwiya b. Abī Sufyān). keywords: abū; abū al; al-ʿuṣūr al; allāh al; aʿtham al; b. al; balawī; cambridge; century; conrad; date; dating; early; et al; futūḥ; hadith; history; ibn al; ibn aʿtham; ibn ʿadī; isnāds; jurjān; kitāb al; lindstedt; madāʾinī; muḥammad al; persian; press; sahmī; sallāmī; taʾrīkh; text; wusṭā; ʿabd al cache: alusur-8799.pdf plain text: alusur-8799.txt item: #111 of 133 id: alusur-8881 author: Pecorini Goodall, Leone title: ‘The ʿAbbas after Whom Those Who Rule in Baghdad Are Named’: Al-ʿAbbās b. al-Walīd in Late Antique Accounts of the Marwānids and the Third Fitna date: 2022-11-29 words: 28350 flesch: 67 summary: In al-Ṭabarī he invokes his troops by asking “Where are the people of the Qurʾan who desire Paradise?”(ʿayn ahl al-Qurʾān alladhīna yurīdūna al-janna). C. F. Robinson et al., 3 vols. keywords: al-ʿabbās; al-ʿuṣūr al; arabic; b. al; b. khayyāṭ; b. marwān; b. muḥammad; b. ʿabd; balādhurī; caliph; chronicle; dār al; early; et al; fitna; hishām; history; ibn; idem; islamic; khalīfa b.; kitāb al; madāʾinī; malik; marwān; marwānid; maslama; narrative; press; rule; sources; syriac; theophanes; theophilus; tārīkh; university; vols; walīd b.; wusṭā; yazīd b.; ʿabd al; ṭabarī cache: alusur-8881.pdf plain text: alusur-8881.txt item: #112 of 133 id: alusur-8895 author: Saif, Liana title: A Preliminary Study of the Pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica: Texts, Context, and Doctrines date: 2021-12-05 words: 31629 flesch: 64 summary: For example, in Aristoteles Arabus, F. E. Peters identifies five separate texts: al-Isṭimākhīs, al-Isṭimāṭīs, al-Malāṭīs (equating it with al-Madīṭīs), the K. ʿIlal al-rūḥāniyyāt, and Dhakhīrat Iskandar.17 In Geschichte des Arabischen Schrifttums, Fuat Sezgin lists al-Shuʿrā and K. ʿIlal al-rūḥāniyyāt under the heading “Astronomy, Astrology, and Magic”18 and includes under Aristotelian works al-Isṭimākhīs, al-Ustuwwaṭṭās (which he deems identical to al-Isṭimāṭīs), al-Malāṭīs or al-Miyalāṭīs, and Dhakhīrat Iskandar.19 He went as far as stating that al-Shuʿrā was the basis for the part of Arabe 2577 that contains al-Ustuwaṭṭās and K. ʿIlal al-rūḥāniyyāt, an opinion accepted by Sezgin.79 However, a comparison of the works does not support this assertion. keywords: al-ʿuṣūr al; alexander; arabe; arabic; aristotelian; aristotle; astrology; b. al; book; century; der; fol; fols; fī al; ghāyat al; greek; hermes; hermetica; ibid; ibn al; ikhwān al; islamic; kitāb al; leiden; london; magic; maktabat al; occult; psah; pseudo; rūḥāniyyāt; saif; sciences; shuʿrā al; sirr al; study; texts; ustuwaṭṭās; work; world; wusṭā; years; ʿilal al cache: alusur-8895.pdf plain text: alusur-8895.txt item: #113 of 133 id: alusur-8897 author: von Schöneman, Katja title: Created After, From, and For the Man? : Development of Premodern Shiʿi Exegetic Discourse on the Creation of Woman date: 2021-12-05 words: 16383 flesch: 63 summary: In Muslima Theology: The Voices of Muslim Women Theologians, edited by E. Aslan et al., 115–32. M. Al-Sharmani et al., 44–64 (Oxford: Oneworld, 2015); von Schöneman, “‘Confine Your Women!’”; eadem, “Evolution of Rabbinic Discourse on the Creation of Woman in Late Antiquity” (MA thesis, University of Helsinki, 2019), available at https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/306271. 40. keywords: abū al; adam; al-ʿuṣūr al; b. al; creation; discourse; et al; eve; exegesis; gender; imāmī; islamic; m. al; man; muḥammad al; muḥsin al; qurʾān; rib; sunni; tafsīr al; tradition; women cache: alusur-8897.pdf plain text: alusur-8897.txt item: #114 of 133 id: alusur-8898 author: Mugler, Joshua title: The Life of Christopher date: 2021-12-05 words: 34561 flesch: 90 summary: ثم اوصله فسلك لوقته وسأل: ز 2546  كانت: س؛ الكريمة كانت قد: ز 2547  في: س؛ –ز 2548  والعشرين: س؛ والعشرون: ز 2549  ايار: س؛ أيار سنة ست وخمسين وثلثماية للهجرة: ز 2550  الى ما: صححته؛ الى ما الى ما: س؛ الى: ز 2551  ليبسانات: صححته؛ لمسنا: س؛ جسد: ز 2552  الى المدينة: س؛ –ز 2553  وحصل على مايدة: س؛ ووضعوه على مائدة من: ز Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 29 (2021) س؛ فيه: ز 2329  اذا ما: س؛ فلما: ز 2330  الخراسانية: keywords: al-ʿuṣūr al; aleppo; antioch; antiochians; anṭākī; arabic; b. al; byzantine; canard; catholicos; century; christian; christopher; church; city; dawla; des; edition; emir; emperor; end; father; god; good; goodness; greek; group; hand; head; histoire; ibid; ibn; ibn al; ibrāhīm; john; joshua; land; life; man; manuscript; meaning; monastery; mountain; mugler; mugler al-ʿuṣūr; muslim; mānik; night; omits; patriarch; people; person; place; rashīq; rule; sayf al; saying; saʿīd al; set; sinai; sir; situation; story; symeon; syriac; text; things; time; translation; treiger; way; word; wusṭā; yūḥannā; zayat; ʿīsā; اال; ابــن; اخــر; اذا; البطريــرك; التــي; الدولــة; الذي; الذيــن; الروم; الــذي; الــى; الن; الوقــت; الى; اليــه; اليه; انطاكية; انطاكيــة; انــه; انه; اهــل; ايضــا; بحســب; بعد; بعــد; بــل; بــل كان; بــه; تقــدم; حــال; ذاك; ذلــك; ذلك; ســيف; صححته; عــن; على; غيــر; ــة; فــكان; فــي; فــي ذلــك; فــي هــذا; فقــال; فيــه; فيما; فيمــا; قــد; كان; كان فــي; كانــت; كانــوا; لــم; لــه; مثــل; مدينــة; مــا; مــع; مــن; مــن كان; منهــم; نحــن; هاهنــا; هذا; هــذا; هــو; هللا; هنــاك; واحــد; وال; وامــا; وان; وذاك; وكان; ولكــن; ولكنــه; ولم; يــا; يكــن cache: alusur-8898.pdf plain text: alusur-8898.txt item: #115 of 133 id: alusur-8902 author: García-Sanjuán, Alejandro title: Feeling Bad about Emotional History: The Case of Andalucismo date: 2021-12-05 words: 9955 flesch: 49 summary: See also González Ferrín’s rather enthusiastic presentation of Olagüe’s work in a recent online interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdrqef9ViGE. Hirschkind exhibits both a complete ignorance of the historical sources and a gullible attitude toward negationist literature, as when he reports uncritically that “according to González Ferrín, the conflicting views in this particular debate devolve almost entirely on the interpretation of two coins. keywords: andalucismo; andalus; de al; del; feeling; ferrín; garcía; gonzález; hirschkind; history; islam; medieval; negationism; olagüe; past; sanjuán; spain; spanish cache: alusur-8902.pdf plain text: alusur-8902.txt item: #116 of 133 id: alusur-8903 author: Pregill, Michael E. title: Blurred Boundaries and Novel Normativities: The Jews of Arabia, the Quranic Milieu, and the “Islamic Judaism” of the Middle Ages date: 2021-12-05 words: 27443 flesch: 45 summary: I do not think it unfair to say that inquiry into the intersections between Islam and Judaism, especially in the era before the full flowering of the Judeo-Arabic culture of the Middle Ages, remains marginal to mainstream Jewish studies despite the important implications of such research.119 Hughes positions himself as a scholar of religion first and seems condensed and repurposed (or simply taken over verbatim) from Shared Identities as well. As one means of indexing this marginality, one might peruse the conference schedules and archived 297 • Michael e. Pregill Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 29 (2021) foremost, but his main academic appointment is in Jewish studies, and so his books address numerous problematic approaches and conceptions that remain conspicuous in the latter field: the persistent emphasis on rabbinic normativity; the perennial quest to discern the original roots of an essentialized Judaism; the corresponding neglect of the complex and, yes, fluid nature of Jewish identity at various points in Late Antiquity; and the consequent foreclosure of the possibility that the historical dialogue between Jews and Muslims exerted a significant impact on integral aspects of both. Seen in this light, Hughes’s attempt to revive Wasserstrom’s project is laudable, renewing the call for a more vigorous investigation of this supposedly obscure period in Jewish history and especially for more scholarly activity in this area on the model of the ample attention now paid to the Jewish-Christian “symbiosis” of the early centuries CE. keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; approach; boundaries; contemporary; history; hughes; identities; identity; islam; islamic; jewish; jews; judaism; late; michael; muslim; muḥammad; period; press; princeton; quran; religion; scholars; studies; study; university; university press; wasserstrom; work; wusṭā cache: alusur-8903.pdf plain text: alusur-8903.txt item: #117 of 133 id: alusur-8904 author: Burt, Clarissa title: Pre-Modern Comparative Literary Practice in the Multilingual Islamic World(s): (Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Research Centre/OCCT, University of Oxford, 22–24 July 2021) date: 2021-12-05 words: 4475 flesch: 69 summary: p r o p h e t Bringing the P e r s i a n R a d ī f i n t o keywords: e n; e s; n t; t h cache: alusur-8904.pdf plain text: alusur-8904.txt item: #118 of 133 id: alusur-8905 author: Slingluff, Sarah title: Wendy M. K. Shaw. What Is “Islamic” Art? Between Religion and Perception date: 2021-12-05 words: 2761 flesch: 69 summary: “Islamic” Art? elucidates philosophies in Islamic poetry to explicate a theory of perceptual culture in Islamic art. I m a g e ” (chapter 7), inhabits this Christian vs. Islamic dynamic that she criticizes in her assessments of early scholars in the fields of art history and Islamic art, particularly Alois Riegl, Erwin Panofsky, Ernst Kühnel, Oleg Grabar, and Owen Jones. keywords: art cache: alusur-8905.pdf plain text: alusur-8905.txt item: #119 of 133 id: alusur-8906 author: Smail, Kader title: Daniella Talmon-Heller. Sacred Place and Sacred Time in the Medieval Islamic Middle East: A Historical Perspective date: 2021-12-05 words: 2487 flesch: 59 summary: At the intersection of history, anthropology, and religion, Sacred Place and Sacred Time in the Medieval Islamic Middle East examines the dual issues of sacred place and sacred time while surveying the development of rites associated with them. Talmon- Heller considers what a sacred space is and what can be inferred from its geographical location. keywords: heller; talmon cache: alusur-8906.pdf plain text: alusur-8906.txt item: #120 of 133 id: alusur-8908 author: Albarrán, Javier title: Alejandro García Sanjuán. Yihad: La regulación de la guerra en la doctrina islámica clásica date: 2021-12-05 words: 3623 flesch: 57 summary: However, as García Sanjuán states, it is not possible to establish a dichotomy between the warlike jihād of the ʿulamāʾ and the spiritual jihād of the Sufis, since war remained, in works such as that of Ibn al-Mubārak, conceptualized as a form of asceticism (pp. 109–10). In addition to outlining his selection of sources, García Sanjuán specifies in the introduction how he will address the study of jihād. keywords: garcía; jihād; sanjuán; war cache: alusur-8908.pdf plain text: alusur-8908.txt item: #121 of 133 id: alusur-8910 author: Bori, Caterina title: Konrad Hirschler. A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture: The Library of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī date: 2021-12-05 words: 4894 flesch: 69 summary: Although quite a few of Ibn Taymiyya’s occasional writings are recorded in Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī’s Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī, also known as Ibn Mibrad, was a minor scholarly personality. keywords: book; hirschler; hādī; ibn; ibn ʿabd; ʿabd; ʿabd al cache: alusur-8910.pdf plain text: alusur-8910.txt item: #122 of 133 id: alusur-8911 author: Bardi, Alberto title: Alexandre M. Roberts. Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch: The Christian Translation Program of Abdallah ibn al-Fadl date: 2021-12-05 words: 3108 flesch: 69 summary: o r e accurately by analyzing the social context in which they occurred and by taking manuscript analysis into account and Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 29 (2021) Alexandre M. Roberts’ Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch • 347 studying texts as entities embodied in their transmission and in the flux of history, rather than as abstract entities as in old-school philology. i o n ; i t r e m a i n s t keywords: e n cache: alusur-8911.pdf plain text: alusur-8911.txt item: #123 of 133 id: alusur-8912 author: Montel, Aurélien title: Eneko López Martínez de Marigorta. Mercaderes, Artesanos y ulemas: Las ciudades de las coras de Ilbira y Pechina en época omeya date: 2021-12-05 words: 3217 flesch: 71 summary: i n t e r e s t d i t e r r keywords: e n; e s; n t cache: alusur-8912.pdf plain text: alusur-8912.txt item: #124 of 133 id: alusur-8913 author: Ballestín, Xavier title: Julián M. Ortega Ortega. La conquista islámica de la Península Ibérica: Una perspectiva arqueológica date: 2021-12-05 words: 4679 flesch: 63 summary: Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 29 (2021) Julián M. Ortega Ortega’s La conquista islámica de la Península Ibérica • 332 Ortega’s approach to original sources s Suffice it to say that such a “revolution” has often been understood as a direct and lasting result of t he Islamic conquest. keywords: e s; n t; s t; t h; t t cache: alusur-8913.pdf plain text: alusur-8913.txt item: #125 of 133 id: alusur-9040 author: Huseini, Said Reza title: The Rebellion of al-Ḥārith b. Surayj (116–28/734–46): The Local Perspective date: 2022-12-01 words: 20407 flesch: 66 summary: Scholars have argued that al-Ḥārith exploited current messianic expectations among Muslims with his use of black symbolism.118 P. Bearman et al. keywords: al-ʿuṣūr al; arab; b. al; bactrian; balkh; black; converts; documents; dār al; islam; islamic; jizya; khurasan; muslim; press; qaghān; rebellion; region; revolt; rulers; studies; surayj; taʾrīkh; türgesh; umayyad; university; wusṭā; ʿabd al; ḥārith; ḥārith b.; ṭabarī cache: alusur-9040.pdf plain text: alusur-9040.txt item: #126 of 133 id: alusur-9044 author: Hagemann, Hannah-Lena title: Was Muṭarrif b. al-Mughīra al-Thaqafī a Khārijite? Rebellion in the Early Marwānid Period date: 2022-12-01 words: 13570 flesch: 68 summary: Michael Jan de Goeje et al., 3 parts in 16 vols. P. Bearman et al. keywords: account; al-ʿuṣūr; ashʿath; b. al; balādhurī; ibn al; islamic; khārijism; khārijite; mughīra al; muṭarrif; rebellion; revolt; shabīb; taʾrīkh; thaqafī; wusṭā; ʿabd al; ʿurwa; ḥajjāj; ṭabarī cache: alusur-9044.pdf plain text: alusur-9044.txt item: #127 of 133 id: alusur-9328 author: Şimşek, Ayşegül title: Portrait of a Jurist between Obedience and Rebellion: The Case of Abū Ḥanīfa date: 2022-12-01 words: 10760 flesch: 71 summary: Kitāb al-Aṣl is one of the earliest Islamic legal texts, and in it al-Shaybānī aims to collect his master Abū Ḥanīfa’s teachings. Kitāb al-Sunna, two of Abū Ḥanīfa’s students, Ibn al-Mubārak (d. 181/797) and Abū Yūsuf (d. 182/798), state that Abū Ḥanīfa approved the sword (yarā al-sayf).23 keywords: abū; abū al; abū ḥanīfa; b. al; fiqh; ibn; ibrāhīm; jaʿfar; jaṣṣāṣ; muḥammad; rebellion; support; zayd; ʿabd; ʿalī; ḥanīfa cache: alusur-9328.pdf plain text: alusur-9328.txt item: #128 of 133 id: alusur-9331 author: Stokes, Phillip W. title: Key to the Kingdom: Variation as a Key to Understanding the Arabic Gospel Manuscripts date: 2023-02-13 words: 19597 flesch: 62 summary: Specifically, I document and test whether and how lexical, grammatical, and orthographic variation form meaningful patterns across Arabic Gospel manuscripts by comparing instances of idiosyncratic variation in each domain. The scholarship on the comparison of Arabic Gospel manuscripts and the establishment of Vorlagen as well as genetic relationships between families based on those Vorlagen is long, and a full review is beyond the scope of the present paper.12 I will take Kashouh’s classification as a starting point and reference other proposals as relevant to the data presented below.13 keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; arabic; case; data; families; family; features; gospel; kashouh; kingdom; manuscripts; patterns; sar; study; tanwīn; text; variation; wusṭā; ت ت cache: alusur-9331.pdf plain text: alusur-9331.txt item: #129 of 133 id: alusur-9394 author: Grant, Philip title: Entangled Symbols: Silk and the Material Semiosis of the Zanj Rebellion (869–83) date: 2022-12-01 words: 15800 flesch: 59 summary: Whitfield, Silk, 206; Eilers et al., “Abrīšam iii.” 74. It began in Basra in 255/869 with one ʿAlī b. Muḥammad, probably an Arab from a village named Warzanīn near Rayy, who claimed both to be an ʿAlid (according to our admittedly hostile sources, al-Ṭabarī and al-Masʿūdī),3 with a variety of different genealogies, and to hear voices from heaven. keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; al-ʿuṣūr al; century; cloth; entangled; history; honor; islamic; material; muwaffaq; muḥammad; new; philip; press; production; rebellion; rebels; revolt; robes; silk; silk robes; taʾrīkh; things; university; world; wusṭā; zanj; ʿabbasid; ʿalī; ṭabarī cache: alusur-9394.pdf plain text: alusur-9394.txt item: #130 of 133 id: alusur-9499 author: Dar, Alon title: Governors and Provincial Elites in Umayyad Egypt: A Case Study of One “Rebellion” (709–10 CE) date: 2022-12-01 words: 8689 flesch: 68 summary: The coexistence of elite families in Egypt meant that provincial governors had to balance a complex and delicate sociopolitical arrangement. Immediately after assassinating the governor, they sent a letter to the caliph, expressing their loyalty to him despite their act.38 Here, again, it is tempting to analyze the case as a matter of “weak” or “strong” government, but it is important to recognize that plots to kill governors were dealt with depending on the power relations in the particular situation and that the Umayyad political system allowed the reintegration of rebels, even at the very high position of provincial governor. keywords: banū; egypt; elites; fahm; governor; ibn; kindī; province; qurra; umayyad; university; ʿabd; ʿabd al cache: alusur-9499.pdf plain text: alusur-9499.txt item: #131 of 133 id: alusur-9651 author: Roohi, Ehsan title: A Form-Critical Analysis of the al-Rajīʿ and Biʾr Maʿūna Stories: Tribal, Ideological, and Legal Incentives behind the Transmission of the Prophet’s Biography date: 2022-10-17 words: 29947 flesch: 68 summary: Some time would have had to pass such that the traditionists, now seeing the late-Umayyad crucifixions in retrospect, recognized these incidents as fitting for the elaboration of the story of al-Rajīʿ. See Kister, “Biʾr Maʿūna,” 342; Watt, Muhammad at Medina, 34; Arafat, “The Development of a Dramatic Theme,” 15; Jones, “The Chronology of the Maghāzī,” 267, where al-Rajīʿ and Biʾr Maʿūna are considered roughly simultaneous; Watt, Muhammad at Medina, 33, where the mission is taken as a proselytizing one; Kister, “Biʾr Maʿūna,” 356, where Nawfal’s role at al-Rajīʿ is accepted as a historical fact; and Keshk, “The Historiography of an Execution,” 13, where the author assigns the primary status to Khubayb’s story vis-à-vis Hujr’s. 230. keywords: abū al; accounts; al-ʿuṣūr al; analysis; arafat; b. al; banū al; beirut; biʾr; biʾr maʿūna; brill; criticism; crucifixion; dalāʾil al; dār al; early; et al; form; historical; history; ibn; ibn al; islam; islamic; khubayb; kitāb al; leiden; maghāzī; maʿūna; medina; muḥammad; muḥammad al; narratives; new; press; prophet; rajīʿ; sources; stories; story; studies; sīra; university; wusṭā; wāqidī; ʿabd al; ʿamr b. cache: alusur-9651.pdf plain text: alusur-9651.txt item: #132 of 133 id: alusur-9935 author: Sijpesteijn, Petra M. title: Closing Ranks: Discipline and Loyalty in the Umayyad Army date: 2022-12-01 words: 18421 flesch: 62 summary: Even ʿAbd al-Raḥmān’s critical report to the caliph and ʿAbd al-Malik’s expression of support for ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and trust in his judgment fail to impress al-Ḥajjāj.97 Another remonstration to the caliph, however, ends less well for the governor. P. Bearman et al., 3:39–43 (Leiden: Brill, 1971), at 41, that the troops returned “at the instigation of Bishr” seems a mistake. keywords: al-ʿuṣūr al; ansāb; b. al; balādhurī; caliph; empire; governor; history; ibid; ibn al; iraq; islamic; jārūd; malik; muhallab; power; press; revolt; soldiers; taʾrīkh; troops; umayyad; university; wusṭā; ʿabd al; ḥajjāj; ṭabarī cache: alusur-9935.pdf plain text: alusur-9935.txt item: #133 of 133 id: alusur-9995 author: Sijpesteijn, Petra M.; Dar, Alon title: Introduction: Acts of Rebellion and Revolt in the Early Islamic Caliphate date: 2022-12-01 words: 4045 flesch: 47 summary: Such rebellions required long and careful preparation and organization. Such rebellions did not intend to end interactions but rather sought to maintain bonds in order to communicate grievances and thereby negotiate a different relationship.5 keywords: case; dar; medieval; rebellions; rebels; revolt; sijpesteijn cache: alusur-9995.pdf plain text: alusur-9995.txt