[{"id": "alusur-10272", "words": "5135", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Beers, Theodore S.", "title": "Review of Ibn al-Muqaffa\u02bf, Kal\u012blah and Dimnah", "date": "2022", "keywords": "arabic; dimna; edition; fishbein; ibn; kal\u012bla; manuscript; text; translation", "summary": "These religious flourishes are not found in the earliest extant manuscripts of the Arabic Kal\u012bla and Dimna, such as the one used for the edition of \u02bfAbd al-Wahh\u0101b \u02bfAzz\u0101m.9 As Fishbein notes, there are other versions of Kal\u012bla and Dimna that are set in a still more explicitly Islamic context, with quotes from Qur\u02beanic verses and a\u1e25\u0101d\u012bth. The book could be handed to students with little prior contextualization; they could use the introduction to gain a general idea of Kal\u012bla Ibn al-Muqaffa\u02bf, \u02bfAbd All\u0101h R\u016bzbih b. D\u0101d\u016bya.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-10273", "words": "2472", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Gordon, Matthew S.", "title": "Review of Anderson, Fenwick, & Rosser-Owen (eds.), The Aghlabids and Their Neighbors", "date": "2022", "keywords": "aghlabid; century; chapter; history; islamic; maghrib; volume", "summary": "Her work, always stimulating, not simply on Aghlabid matters but more generally on the shaping of early medieval Islamicate and Mediterranean society and politics, deserves to be widely read. 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 the book and was slated to contribute a foreword.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-10274", "words": "2164", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Balbale, Abigail Krasner", "title": "Review of Albarr\u00e1n, Ej\u00e9rcitos benditos", "date": "2022", "keywords": "albarra\u0301n; andalus; holy; jihad; war", "summary": "Based on his doctoral disserta- tion, \u201cLos discursos de guerra santa y la memoria de las primeras batallas del Islam, al-Andalus, Siglos X-XIII\u201d (Universidad Auto\u0301noma de Madrid, 2019), this book reflects the author\u2019s broad familiarity with a wide range of Arabic, Latin, and Castilian sources on the concept and practice of holy war. Albarra\u0301n\u2019s close reading of these sources demonstrates the ways in which discourses of holy war emerged in the Islamic West in the context of the broader Islamic Middle Period, and also in contact and competition with the Christian kingdoms of Iberia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-10275", "words": "4602", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Smarandache, Bogdan C.", "title": "Review of Lindsay & Mourad (eds. and trans.), Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period", "date": "2022", "keywords": "crusades; franks; ibn; islamic; lindsay; mourad; muslim; period; press; sources; students; university", "summary": "Diy\u0101\u02be al-D\u012bn, al-\u1e24ik\u0101y\u0101t al-muqtabasa f\u012b kar\u0101m\u0101t mash\u0101yikh al-Ar\u1e0d al-Muqaddasa, ed. and trans. For a study devoted to this campaign, see Suhayr Mu\u1e25ammad Ibr\u0101h\u012bm Nu\u02bfayni\u02bf, al-\u1e24ur\u016bb al-\u1e63al\u012bbiyya al-muta\u02beakhkhira: \u1e24amlat Bu\u1e6drus al-Awwal L\u016bsiny\u0101n \u02bfal\u0101 al-Iskandariyya, 1365 M/747 H (Giza: \u02bfAyn, 2002), reviewed by Niall Christie in Maml\u016bk Studies Review 10, no. 1 (2006): 199\u2013201.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-10276", "words": "4831", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Lawrence, Jonathan", "title": "Review of Balda-Tillier, Histoires d\u2019amour et de mort", "date": "2022", "keywords": "balda; book; ibn; love; mughul\u1e6d\u0101y; tillier; work; w\u0101\u1e0di\u1e25; \u1e25ad\u012bth", "summary": "Easily the most exciting aspect of Balda- Tillier\u2019s book for this reviewer is the fourth chapter, in which she makes use of the same granular precision we saw in the Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 30 (2022) 634 \u2022 Jonathan Lawrence second chapter to analyse the biographical dictionary section of al-W\u0101\u1e0di\u1e25 al-mub\u012bn. In her conclusion, Balda-Tillier brings the many and various strands of her analysis of this text together and provides a final meditation on al-W\u0101\u1e0di\u1e25 al-mub\u012bn, in which she argues that Mughul\u1e6d\u0101y marries literary sources with religious ideals.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-10277", "words": "1913", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Smail, Kader", "title": "Review of O\u2019Meara, The Ka\u02bfba Orientations", "date": "2022", "keywords": "building; ka\u02bfba; o\u2019meara; \u02bfabd", "summary": "Again, it would be problematic to endorse al-Azraq\u012b\u2019s claim about al-Wal\u012bd b. \u02bfAbd al-Malik without additional research. In the same vein, the Meccan chronicler also reports that the first caliph who adorned the building was al-Wal\u012bd b. \u02bfAbd al-Malik (r. 86\u201396/705\u2013715).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-10278", "words": "5137", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Klasova, Pamela", "title": "Review of Qutbuddin, Arabic Oration", "date": "2022", "keywords": "arabic; chapter; early; islamic; oration; oratory; qutbuddin; sermon; speeches", "summary": "The first monograph on early Arabic oration as a genre in a Western language was Stefan D\u00e4hne\u2019s 2001 dissertation: Stefan D\u00e4hne, \u201cReden der Araber: die politische h\u0332u\u1e6dba in der klassischen arabischen Literatur (Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 2001). Important articles on the topic are Tahera Qutbuddin, \u201cKhu\u1e6dba: The Evolution of Early Arabic Oration,\u201d in Classical Arabic Humanities in their Own Terms, ed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-10279", "words": "4080", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "24", "author": "Enderle, Ellen", "title": "Rethinking the Wearable in the Middle Ages", "date": "2022", "keywords": "ages; body; century; dress; jewelry; medieval; mongol; ornaments; paper; session; silk; wearable", "summary": "Conference Report Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 30 (2022): 654-661 The practice of adorning, protecting, and covering the body has long been fundamental to humankind, with recent archaeological discoveries yielding wearable ornaments dating to the Middle Pleistocene era.1 Bosselmann-Ruickbie explored questions of development, terminology, and wearability\u2014particularly whether such ornaments were attached like collars to textiles or worn as a separate piece of jewelry.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-10280", "words": "3129", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Behrens-Abouseif, Doris", "title": "Remarks by the Recipient of the 2021 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award", "date": "2022", "keywords": "art; book; cairo; culture; history; islamic; mamluk; years", "summary": "While working on the topography of late Mamluk Cairo for my MA, I discovered a Mamluk building! The conference organized by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bauden, Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads of Embassies, was an eye-opener.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-10292", "words": "886", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Antrim, Zayde; Vacca, Alison M.", "title": "Masthead & Table of Contents", "date": "2022", "keywords": "board; east; middle; rebellion; review; university", "summary": "Book Review Editors Malika Dekkiche, University of Antwerp Luke Yarbrough, University of California, Los Angeles Editorial Board, Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 Manan Ahmed, Columbia University Sean Anthony, The Ohio State University Mushegh Asatryan, University of Calgary Hannah Barker, Arizona State University Francesca Bellino, Universit\u00e0 di Napoli \u201cL\u2019Orientale\u201d Evrim Binba\u015f, Universit\u00e4t Bonn Amina Elbendary, The American University in Cairo Corisande Fenwick, University College London Eve Krakowski, Princeton University Josef Meri, Hamad Bin Khalifa University Oya Pancaro\u011flu, Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i 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/ 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.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-10299", "words": "2373", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Riedlmayer, Andr\u00e1s", "title": "Remarks by the Recipient of the 2022 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award", "date": "2023", "keywords": "history; librarian; libraries; library; research; time; war", "summary": "I ended up staying on in Istanbul for more than three years, happily spending my days in the Ottoman archives and reading in Islamic manuscript libraries. It was an exciting time in the profession and in the field of Middle Eastern studies, with advances in automation and digitization and the changes these brought to libraries and to the humanities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-10320", "words": "10244", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Lindstedt, Ilkka", "title": "Reconsidering Isl\u0101m and D\u012bn in the Medinan Qur\u02bean", "date": "2023", "keywords": "arabic; believers; d\u012bn; god; group; isl\u0101m; law; medinan; obedience; press; qur\u02bean; qur\u02beanic; religion; university; verse; word", "summary": "The letter invokes ahl al-isl\u0101m and, moreover, ahl al-d\u012bn al-isl\u0101m al-d\u012bn al-qayyim, which is a rather awkward formulation but can be translated as \u201cthe people of the religion, Islam, the upright religion\u201d or, supposing that the definite article before the first al-d\u012bn in the phrase is a mistake and should be omitted, \u201cthe people of the religion of Islam, the upright religion. Whatever the exact meaning here of \u02bfinda all\u0101h, it is clear that al-d\u012bn is predicated by al-isl\u0101m.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-10405", "words": "2025", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Mikkelson, Jane", "title": "Review of Williams, The Masnavi of R\u016bm\u012b", "date": "2023", "keywords": "english; masnav\u012b; persian; r\u016bm\u012b; williams", "summary": "(That being said, there may be English readers who prefer to read long narratives in rhyme, and surely it is a good thing to have multiple thoughtful scholarly translations of R\u016bm\u012b available in English today.) This meter\u2019s specific rhythm doesn\u2019t have an exact English equivalent, and Williams transposes R\u016bm\u012b\u2019s rhymed and metered Persian into an unrhymed English iambic pentameter\u2014Shakespeare\u2019s favorite form\u2014which, as Williams proposes, best conveys the feel and flow of the Persian.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-10486", "words": "14937", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Balafrej, Lamia", "title": "Instrumental Jaw\u0101r\u012b: On Gender, Slavery, and Technology in Medieval Arabic Sources", "date": "2023", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; arabic; balafrej; cambridge; century; example; female; gender; history; ibn al; islamic; jaw\u0101r\u012b; j\u0101riya; lamia; machines; medieval; press; slavery; slaves; sources; studies; subject; technology; university; university press; water; women; wus\u1e6d\u0101", "summary": "\u02bfAbd al-Ra\u1e25m\u0101n al-Barq\u016bq\u012b, vol. 1 (Cairo: Ma\u1e6dba\u02bfat al-Sa\u02bf\u0101da, [1938]), 380. 56. Edited by \u02bfAbd al-Ra\u1e25m\u0101n al-Barq\u016bq\u012b.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-10496", "words": "14233", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Upham, Tonicha Mae", "title": "\u201cOut of Love for You\u201d: Orienting R\u016bs Expressions of Emotion in Arabic Geography", "date": "2024", "keywords": "accounts; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; arabic; emotions; funerary; gender; geographical; history; ibn; ibn fa\u1e0dl\u0101n; islamic; love; medieval; miskawayh; new; press; rusta; r\u016bs; sacrifice; sacrificial; sources; studies; university; upham; women; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u1e25ubb", "summary": "\u1e24asan al-Sand\u016bb\u012b, 266\u201375 (Cairo: al-Ma\u1e6dba\u02bfa al-Tij\u0101riyya, 1933), 266. 59. On readings of j\u0101riya and ghul\u0101m as indicative of slavery and associated translational issues, see, for instance, Lamia Balafrej, \u201cInstrumental Jaw\u0101r\u012b: On Gender, Slavery, and Technology in Medieval Arabic Sources,\u201d Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 31 (2023): 96\u2013126, at 96\u201397; Shawkat M. Toorawa and Ibn al-S\u0101\u02bf\u012b, \u201cNote on the Translation,\u201d in Consorts of the Caliphs: Women and the Court of Baghdad, by Ibn al-S\u0101\u02bf\u012b, ed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-10517", "words": "11112", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Talib, Adam", "title": "Unlearning the Aesthetics of Malicious Joy", "date": "2024", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; arabic; bashsh\u0101r; burd; cairo; classical; ibn; literature; nowaihi; nuwayh\u012b; poem; poetry; saliva; shi\u02bfr; studies; university; woman; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \ufffd \u0650; \ufffd \ufffd", "summary": "\u0644 \u0650\u0650\u062c \ufffd\u064e\u0646\ufffd\u0652\u0652\u0641\u064e\u0633\ufffd \u0650\u0650\u0645\u0652\u0652\u0646 \u064e\u0646\ufffd\u0652\u0652\u0631\u0650\u0650\u062c\u064d\u064d\u0633 \u0641\u064e\u0633\u0642\u0649 \u0650\u0631\u0627\u064a\u064e\u0636\ufffd \u064e\u0628 \u064e\u0636\ufffd \u0627\u0646\u0650\u0641\u0652\u064b\u0631\u0627 \u0642\ufffd\u0628\u0652\u064e\u0644\u064e\u064f\u0652\u062a\u064f\u064f\u0647 \u0641\u0628\u0649\u0643 \u0648\u064e\ufffd\u0652\u0652\u0639\u0652\u0631\ufffd \u0652\u0642\u064e\u0639\ufffd \ufffd\u0671\u064e\u0651\u062f\u064e\u0644\u0650\u0652\u0645\u064e\u0639\u0650 \u0650\u0650\u0645\u0652\u0652\u0646 \u064e\ufffd\u0650\u0652\u062c\u0652\u0641\u0627\u0650\u0650\u0646\u064f\u0650\u0647 \u0641\u064e\u0623\u0643\u064e\u064e\u0651\u064e\u0646 \u0648\ufffd \u0652\u0631\u064d\u062f \u064e\ufffd\u064e\u0645\u0652\u0652\u062d\ufffd\u0652\u0631\u064d \ufffd\u064e\u0633\u0627\u0642\ufffd\u064e\u0637\ufffd \u0641\ufffd\u0652\u0652\u0648\u064e\u0642\ufffd \u0648\ufffd \u064c\u062f \u064e\u062a \u064e\u0628\ufffd\u0652\u0631\ufffd \u0627\u0643\u064e\u0651\u0646\ufffd \u064a\u0641 \ufffd\u0671 \u0650 \u0627 \u0652\u064f\u0631 \u064a\u0650\u0651\u0646 \u064a\u0641 \u064e\u062e\u0652\u0644\u064a\u0652\u0644\u064a\u062a \u064e\u0645\u064f\u064f\u0639\ufffd \u0642\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0650\u0645\ufffd \u0642\u0627\u064e\u0644\ufffd \u064e\ufffd\u0650\u0641\u064d\u0652\u0642", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-10744", "words": "1561", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "H\u00fcnefeld, Kerstin; Pukhovaia, Ekaterina", "title": "State-building, Political Thought and the Other in Muslim Imperial Peripheries", "date": "2023", "keywords": "hebrew; jerusalem; muslim; state; university", "summary": "In the concluding discussion following the keynote, participants highlighted that another direction for future research could comprise the study of the form and the substance of being Muslim throughout premodern Muslim history, emphasizing the tribe/state relationship as a pronounced problem for Muslim states and, therefore, Islam altogether. mailto:e.pukhovaia%40hum.leidenuniv.nl?subject= mailto:kerstin.huenefeld%40mail.huji.ac.il?subject= 221 \u2022 EkatErina Pukhovaia and kErstin h\u00fcnEfEld Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 31 (2023) \u2022 How did Others (non-Muslims, non-mainstream Muslim sects, tribes, minority ethnic groups) contribute to the development of Muslim states and empires?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-11011", "words": "10288", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "77", "author": "Tillier, Mathieu", "title": "Mu\u1e25ammad b. Khalaf Wak\u012b\u02bf (m. 306/918), ou le d\u00e9samour de Bagdad", "date": "2024", "keywords": "akhb\u0101r; akhb\u0101r al; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; a\u1e25mad; b. al; bagdad; beyrouth; cadis; cette; comme; dans; des; dhahab\u012b; d\u0101r; d\u0101r al; d\u2019al; d\u2019un; est; ibid; ibn; ibn al; khalaf; les; lui; mad\u012bnat al; mi\u1e25na; mu\u1e25ammad; nous; par; pas; pour; que; qui; qu\u1e0d\u0101t; qu\u2019il; ses; son; sur; ta\u02ber\u012bkh; ta\u02ber\u012bkh al; tillier; une; voir; voir al; wak\u012b\u02bf; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u1e6dabar\u012b", "summary": "Mu\u1e25ammad b. al-Wal\u012bd al-Busr\u012b al-Ba\u1e63r\u012b al-Qurash\u012b (m. ann\u00e9es 250/864), traditionniste ba\u1e63rien. Ab\u016b \u02bf Umar fut cadi du district bagdadien de Mad\u012bnat al-Man\u1e63\u016br de 284 \u00e0 292/897 \u00e0 904\u2013905, d\u2019al-Sharqiyya de 292 \u00e0 296/904\u2013905 \u00e0 908\u2013909, puis \u00e9galement de la rive orientale (al-j\u0101nib al-sharq\u012b)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-11197", "words": "2163", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Varisco, Daniel", "title": "Review of Ibn al-Muj\u0101wir, \u1e62ifat bil\u0101d al-Yaman wa-Makka ", "date": "2023", "keywords": "arabic; century; ibn; j\u0101zim; muj\u0101wir; smith", "summary": "Ibn al-Muj\u0101wir quotes from several noted earlier scholars, such as the T\u0101r\u012bkh al-Yaman of \u02bfUm\u0101ra al-Yaman\u012b (d. 569/1175),5 al-Mas\u02bf\u016bd\u012b, al-B\u012br\u016bn\u012b, and Fakhr al-D\u012bn al-R\u0101z\u012b. Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 31 (2023): 228-231 Book Review Ibn al-Muj\u0101wir, Ab\u016b Bakr b. Mu\u1e25ammad.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-11636", "words": "4588", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Livingston, Daisy", "title": "Review of al-Shisht\u0101w\u012b, Khayr\u0101t al-sul\u1e6d\u0101n Q\u0101ytb\u0101y", "date": "2023", "keywords": "book; cairo; codex; deed; document; endowment; mamluk; medina; note; q\u0101ytb\u0101y; shisht\u0101w\u012b; waqf", "summary": "Khayr\u0101t al-sul\u1e6d\u0101n Q\u0101ytb\u0101y wa-munsha\u02be\u0101tuhu al-mawq\u016bfa \u02bfal\u0101 al-\u1e25aramayn al-shar\u012bfayn min khil\u0101l kit\u0101b waqfihi al-ma\u1e25f\u016b\u1e93 bi-l-maktaba al-ahliyya bi-B\u0101r\u012bs (Cairo: D\u0101r al-\u0100f\u0101q al-\u02bfArabiyya, 2018). In this part of the book, al-Shisht\u0101w\u012b follows the waqf deed in also laying out the personnel who were to be paid with the proceeds of the endowment (pp.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-11651", "words": "3496", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Igarashi, Daisuke", "title": "Review of Kumakura, Chusei Ejiputo no Tochiseido to Nairukangai ", "date": "2023", "keywords": "chapter; daftar; egypt; land; mamluk; ottoman; records", "summary": "This is valuable in demonstrating one aspect of Mamluk land management and record keeping as well as significant in identifying one of the sources of al-Tu\u1e25fa al-saniyya by finding a partial match between a single register from the reign of the Mamluk sultan al-Ashraf Sha\u02bfb\u0101n (r. 1363\u201377) and a record in al-Tu\u1e25fa al-saniyya. Part I, \u201cContinuities and Discontinuities in the Administration of Records,\u201d consisting of four chapters, focuses on the Daftar jaysh\u012b, the principal historical source of the book, and examines the documentary administration of land under the Circassian Mamluk regime and the transfer of Mamluk land records to the Ottoman government.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-11737", "words": "44527", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "78", "author": "Baptiste, Enki", "title": "La khu\u1e6dba d\u2019Ab\u016b \u1e24amza al-Sh\u0101r\u012b : soul\u00e8vement ib\u0101\u1e0dite et rh\u00e9torique de la contestation en p\u00e9ninsule Arabique au second si\u00e8cle de l\u2019Islam. Traduction comment\u00e9e d\u2019une version in\u00e9dite du sermon", "date": "2024", "keywords": "a. al; abdulrahman al; ab\u012b; ab\u016b al; ahl al; ainsi; akhb\u0101r al; al salimi; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; all\u0101h b.; alors; apr\u00e8s; aurait; aux; avait; avec; avons; b. ab\u012b; b. al; b. ya\u1e25y\u0101; b. \u02bfabd; bad\u02be al; baptiste; beyrouth; bien; brill; cambridge; cas; ce que; cela; celle; celui; cette; ceux; comme; comme le; contexte; contre; c\u2019est; dans al; dans ce; dans la; dans les; dans son; dans un; de ce; de cette; de dieu; de la; de l\u2019islam; de se; de son; de \u02bfabd; dernier; des; deux; dieu et; dieu le; donc; doute; du sermon; d\u0101r al; d\u2019ab\u016b; d\u2019al; d\u2019ibn al; d\u2019un; early; encore; enki; entre; est; et al; et dans; et de; et la; et les; et nous; et que; et son; et une; fait; fut; gens; ghumma al; hommes; ibn al; ibr\u0101h\u012bm; ib\u0101\u1e0dite; ib\u0101\u1e0d\u012b; ici; il est; ils; islamic; izkaw\u012b; ja\u02bffar al; kashf al; khu\u1e6dba dans; kh\u0101rijites; kit\u0101b al; la khu\u1e6dba; la r\u00e9volte; les; les sources; leur; leyde; lui; l\u2019histoire; l\u2019ib\u0101\u1e0disme; l\u2019islam; l\u2019on; l\u2019\u00e9poque; mais; maktabat al; malik; marsham; mascate; milieu; mouvement; musulmans; mu\u1e25ammad; m\u00eame; nayyir al; new; notamment; notre; nous; n\u2019est; oman; omanais; par al; par la; par les; par un; paris; parmi; pas; plus; politique; pour; pouvoir; premi\u00e8re; press; proph\u00e8te; pr\u00eache; puis; qawm\u012b; qa\u1e25\u1e6d\u0101n; que; que dieu; que la; que les; que nous; qui; qu\u2019il; sall\u0101m al; sans; sa\u02bf\u012bd al; semble; sermon; ses; shu\u02be\u016bn al; sh\u0101r\u012b; sir\u1e25\u0101n al; siyar; si\u00e8cle; soit; son; sont; sources; sous; sur la; sur les; s\u012bra; ta\u02ber\u012bkh al; texte; thaq\u0101fa; tout; traduction; tr\u00e8s; tur\u0101th al; umayyad; umayyades; une; university; version; viiie; voir; voir al; vol; vous; wilkinson; wiz\u0101rat al; wus\u1e6d\u0101; y\u00e9men; y\u0101q\u016bt al; y\u016bsuf al; ziy\u0101d al; \u00e0 al; \u00e9dit\u00e9; \u00e9dit\u00e9 par; \u00e9galement; \u00e9tait; \u00e9t\u00e9; \u00eatre; \u02bfabd al; \u02bfal\u012b al; \u02bfan al; \u02bfumar; \u0639\u0644\u0640\u0640\u0649; \u0645\u0640\u0640\u0646; \u0647\u0644\u0644\u0627; \u0648\u0627\u0644; \u0651\u0645\u062b\u0651; \u1e25amza al; \u1e25amza et; \u1e25a\u1e0dramawt; \u1e25umayd al; \u1e6dabaq\u0101t al; \u1e6d\u0101lib al", "summary": "Kit\u0101b al-\u02bfIb\u0101r wa-d\u012bw\u0101n al-mubtada\u02be wa-l-khabar f\u012b ayy\u0101m al-\u02bfarab wa-l-\u02bfajam wa-l-barbar wa-man \u02bf \u0101\u1e63arahum min dhaw\u012b al-sul\u1e6d\u0101n al-akbar. al-Khal\u012bl al-Far\u0101h\u012bd\u012b.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-11837", "words": "15212", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "75", "author": "Musto, Antonio", "title": "From Trial (Mi\u1e25na) to Tribulation (Bal\u0101\u02be): A New Look at Ghul\u0101m Khal\u012bl\u2019s (d. 275/888) Inquisition against the Sufis", "date": "2024", "keywords": "ab\u016b; ab\u016b al; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; b. al; bal\u0101\u02be; beirut; d\u0101r al; ghul\u0101m; god; ibn; ibn al; khal\u012bl; kit\u0101b; kit\u0101b al; mi\u1e25na; mu\u1e25ammad; narrative; n\u016br\u012b; sufis; trial; tribulation; \u02bfabd al", "summary": "Although noteworthy on its face, as discussed earlier, this narrative differs completely from the others and is almost certainly a fictional account.94 Mu\u1e25ammad b. al-\u1e24asan b. al-Mu\u1e93affar reported to us (akhbaran\u0101) that Ab\u016b \u02bfUmar Mu\u1e25ammad b. \u02bfAbd al-W\u0101\u1e25id said that al-N\u016br\u012b al-\u1e62\u016bf\u012b reported to me, saying: When the mi\u1e25na happened, I and a group of Sufis were charged with unbelief (rum\u012btu an\u0101 wa-jam\u0101\u02bfa min al-\u1e63\u016bfiyya bi-l-kufr). Mu\u1e25ammad Fat\u1e25\u012b Ab\u016b Bakr (Cairo: al-D\u0101r al-Mi\u1e63riyya al-Lubn\u0101niyya, 1994), 1:369. 51.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-11849", "words": "4723", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Dospel Williams, Elizabeth", "title": "Textile Mobilities across Medieval Afro-Eurasia", "date": "2023", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; art; egypt; mobilities; museum; production; silk; structure; textiles; weave; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u1e6dir\u0101z", "summary": "\u2022 Given the resources invested in the materials and technology of textile production, fabrics were highly valued as currency and portable wealth. Mongol elites invested substantially in textile production, which included both government-sanctioned production as well as control over private workshops.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-11907", "words": "2828", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "L\u00f6hr, Nadine", "title": "The Mongols\u2019 Baghdad: Knowledge Transmission through Manuscript Cultures Before and After the Conquest ", "date": "2023", "keywords": "baghdad; conference; knowledge; manuscript; mongol; panel; production", "summary": "The research shed light on the comparison of manuscript production between the pre- and post- Mongol periods and the potential role of Mongol patronage in facilitating the circulation of philosophical knowledge. The diverse panels covered various aspects, including the loss of books, manuscript production, art, architecture, history, philosophy, sciences, and religion.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-11934", "words": "3318", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Hamza, Shireen", "title": "Sexual Knowledge in the Islamic World: Historical Perspectives", "date": "2023", "keywords": "century; conference; islamic; knowledge; presentation; sex; texts; university; women", "summary": "While more than half of the conference\u2019s papers were about Arabic texts, scholars of Persian and Ottoman Turkish literature were also present, along with scholars of Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Central Asia working in Persian, Urdu, Braj, Malay, and Chagatai. Authors of Persian medical texts in India often grappled with Ayurvedic knowledge, either by including select concepts and remedies in their texts of Galenic medicine or translating entire Ayurvedic texts.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-11961", "words": "37265", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Budak, Samet ; Pifer, Michael", "title": "Learning Middle Armenian at the Court of Me\u1e25med II: Language, Knowledge, and Power before the Imperial Rise of Ottoman Turkish", "date": "2024", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; amirdovlat; amiroutzes; arabic; armenian; ayasofya; book; budak; byzantine; cambridge; century; constantinople; court; court library; empire; fig; grammar; greek; hexaglot; history; istanbul; knowledge; language; latin; learning; library; manuscripts; medical; medieval; mediterranean; me\u1e25med ii; michael; middle armenian; museum; new; ottoman court; ottoman language; ottoman palace; ottoman turkish; palace; palace library; period; persian; physician; pifer; press; production; samet; study; sultan; texts; time; topkap\u0131; translation; turkish; university; use; vernacular; words; world; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \ufffd \ufffd", "summary": "Learning Middle Armenian at the Court of Me\u1e25med II \u2022 321 80 \u0632\u06cc\u0633\u0646\u062a To live, to subsist \u064f\u064f\u0648\u0652\u062e\u0652\u0650\u0686\u0646\u064e\u0627\u0652\u0652\u0644 To heal; to recover one\u2019s health; to gain fresh vigor \u0578\u0572\u057b\u0576\u0561\u056c125 MA 81 \u0628\u0633\u0646\u062a To bind \u064e\u0642\u064e\u0627\u0650\u0628\u064e\u064a\u0652\u0652\u0644 To bind \u056f\u0561\u057a\u0565\u056c CA 82 \u06af\u0634\u0627\u062f\u0646 To open \u067e\u064e\u0627\u064e\u0627\u064e\u0646\u0652\u0652\u0644 To open \u0562\u0561\u0576\u0561\u056c CA 83 \u064e\u0627\u0628\u0646\u06af \u0632\u062f\u0646 To exclaim; to cry out \u064e\u064a\u0652\u0652\u0644 \u064e\u0642\u064e\u0627\u0652\u0686\u0652\u0646\u0650 Learning Middle Armenian at the Court of Me\u1e25med II \u2022 331 228 \u0646\u064f\u0648\u0627\u062e\u0646\u062a To soothe, caress; to praise; to play an instrument \u0650\u06a9\u0652\u064e\u06a9\u064f\u0650\u0648\u064e\u06cc\u0652\u0652\u064e\u0644 To caress; to flatter \u0563\u0563\u0578\u0582\u0565\u056c CA 229 \u06af\u0646\u0650\u062c\u064a\u0652\u062f\u0646 To be contained; to hold exactly; to be filled; to fit in138 \u064e\u0645\u0652\u0652\u0763\u0650\u0646\u0652\u0652\u0644", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-11963", "words": "1834", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Wright, Owen", "title": "Review of Nielson, Music and Musicians & Reynolds, Medieval Arab Music and Musicians", "date": "2023", "keywords": "court; medieval; music; musicians", "summary": "Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 31 (2023): 224-227 Book Review Lisa Nielson. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which allows users to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the original authors and source. mailto:ow%40soas.ac.uk%20?subject= 225 \u2022 Owen wright Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 31 (2023) performers), and on the room for negotiation across social lines of demarcation (with due reference to al-J\u0101\u1e25i\u1e93\u2019s penetrating analysis of the \u201cwiles\u201d of enslaved female singers).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-12029", "words": "33617", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "82", "author": "D'hulster, Kristof", "title": "Will I Be Happy, Will I Be Rich? Three Lot Books (Qur\u02bfas) from the Library of Q\u0101ni\u1e63awh al-Mu\u1e25ammad\u012b", "date": "2024", "keywords": "1999/2; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; alfadhol; allah; arrival; ayasofya; book; chance; children; circle; concern; contents; delay; divination; d\u2019hulster; d\u2019hulster al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; example; fig; fol; god; good; house; instructions; introduction; knowledge; kristof; kunitzsch; line; lot; love; manuscript; matter; mu\u1e25ammad; need; news; number; page; people; promise; property; qur\u02bfa; qur\u02bfa al; q\u0101ni\u1e63awh al; return; ruler; section; sura; table; text; thee; title; topic; travel; truth; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u0627\u0627\u0644; \u0627\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0631; \u0627\u062d\u0644\u0627\u062c\u0629; \u0627\u0644\u0630\u064a; \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0641\u0631; \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0644\u0637\u0627\u0646; \u0627\u0644\u064a\u062a; \u0627\u0646\u0647; \u0627\u064a\u0644; \u0633\u0648\u0631\u0629; \u0639\u0644\u0640\u0640\u064a; \u0639\u0644\u0649; \u0641\u064a\u0647; \u0645\u0627\u0627\u0644; \u0645\u0640\u0640\u0646; \u0647\u0630\u0627; \u0647\u0630\u0647; \u0647\u0644\u0644\u0627; \u0648\u0627\u0644; \u064a\u062f\u0644 \u0639\u0644\u064a; \u064a\u0631\u0632\u0642", "summary": "\u0627\u0646 \u0627\u0645\u0644\u062a\u0647\u0648\u0645 \u0628\u0631\u064a\u0621 \u0661\u0664 \u0648\u0627\u0645\u0644\u0631\u062c\u0641\u0648\u0646 \u064a\u0641 \u0627\u0645\u0644\u062f\u064a\u0646\u0629 \u064a\u062f\u0644 \u0639\u0644\u064a \u0628\u0637\u0627\u0644\u0646 \u0627\u062d\u0644\u0631\u0628 \u0661\u0665 \u0645\u0627 \u0647\u0644\u0645 \u0628\u0647 \u0645\u0646 \u0639\u0644\u0645 \u0627\u0627\u0644 \u0627\u062a\u0628\u0627\u0639 \u0627\u0644\u0638\u0646 \u064a\u062f\u0644 \u0639\u0644\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0639\u062c\u0632 \u0648\u0627\u062d\u0644\u062f\u0627\u0644\u0646 \u0661\u0666 \u0641\u063a\u0644\u0628\u0648\u0627 \u0647\u0646\u0627\u0644\u0643 \u0648\u0627\u0646\u0642\u0644\u0628\u0648\u0627 \u0635\u0627\u063a\u0631\u064a\u0646 \u064a\u0644\u062f \u0639\u0644\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0628\u062e\u0644 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0634\u062d \u0648\u0627\u0644\u062f\u064a\u0646 \u0661\u0667 \u0648\u0645\u0646 \u064a\u0628\u062e\u0644 \u0641\u0627\u0645\u0646\u0627 \u064a\u0628\u062e\u0644 \u0639\u0646 \u0646\u0641\u0633\u0647 \u064a\u062f\u0644 \u0639\u0644\u064a \u0627\u0646\u0647 \u064a\u0631\u0632\u0642 \u0639\u0644\u0645\u0627 \u0661\u0668 \u0648\u0645\u0627 \u0627\u0648\u062a\u064a\u062a\u0645 \u0645\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0644\u0645 \u0627\u0627\u0644 \u064e\u0642\u0644\u064a\u0627\u0644 \u064a\u062f\u0644 \u0639\u0644\u064a \u0627\u0646\u0647 \u0627\u0644 \u064a\u0648\u064a\u0641 \u0627\u0628\u0644\u0639\u0647\u062f \u0661\u0669 \u0627\u0644 \u064a\u0631\u064e\u0642\u0628\u0648\u0646 \u064a\u0641 \u0645\u0624\u0645\u0646 \u0627\u0627\u0644 \u0648\u0627\u0644 \u0630\u0645\u0629 \u064a\u062f\u0644 \u0639\u0644\u064a \u062d\u0633\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0642\u0633\u0645\u0629 \u06620 \u0648\u0647\u0644\u0645 \u0641\u064a\u0647\u0627 \u0627\u0632\u0648\u0627\u062c \u0645\u0637\u0647\u0631\u0629 102 \u2022 Kristof D\u2019hulster Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 32 (2024) \u0663 \u0633\u0648\u0631\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0646\u0633\u0627\u0621 \u064a\u062f\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0644\u0637\u0627\u0646 \u0648\u062e\u064e\u0631\u064a\u0647 \u0667 \u0627\u0645\u0629 \u064a\u0647\u062f\u0648\u0646 \u0627\u0628\u062d\u0644\u0642 \u0648\u0628\u0647 \u064a\u0639\u062f\u0644\u0648\u0646 \u064a\u062f\u0644 \u0639\u0644\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0646\u0635\u0631 \u0645\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u063a\u0644\u0628\u0629 \u0668 \u0648\u064a\u0646\u0635\u0631\u0643\u0645 \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0647\u0645 \u064a\u062f\u0644 \u0639\u0644\u064a \u0628\u0637\u0627\u0644\u0646 \u0645\u0627 \u0633\u0623\u0644 \u0639\u0646\u0647 \u0669 \u0648\u062d\u064a\u0644 \u0628\u064a\u0646\u0647\u0645 \u0648 \u0628\u0646\u064a \u0645\u0627 \u064a\u0634\u062a\u0647\u0648\u0646 \u064a\u062f\u0644 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0646\u0647 \u0627\u0644 \u064a\u0631\u0632\u0642 \u0647\u0630\u0627 \u0627\u0645\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u06610 \u0645\u0651\u0633\u062a\u0647\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0627\u0633\u0627\u0621 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0636\u0631\u0627\u0621 \u064a\u062f\u0644 \u0639\u0644\u064a \u064e\u0642\u0644\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u064a\u062d \u0648\u0627\u0645\u0644\u0646\u0641\u0639\u0629 \u0661\u0661 \u0641\u0645\u0627 \u062a\u0632\u064a\u062f\u0648\u0646\u064a\u0646 \u063a\u064e\u0631\u064a \u062e\u062a\u0633\u064e\u0631\u064a \u064a\u062f\u0644 \u0639\u0644\u064a \u0633\u0631\u0639\u0629 \u064e\u0642\u062f\u0648\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u063a\u0627\u064a\u0628 \u0661\u0662 \u0627\u064a\u062a\u0646\u064a \u0645\u0646 \u0643\u0644 \u0641\u062c \u0639\u0645\u064a\u0642 \u064a\u062f\u0644 \u0639\u0644\u064a \u0623\u062a\u062e\u064e\u0631\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0641\u0631 \u0661\u0663 \u0648\u0645\u0627 \u0647\u0645 \u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631\u062c\u0646\u064a \u0645\u0646\u0647\u0627 \u064a\u062f\u0644 \u0639\u0644\u064a \u0627\u062f\u0631\u0627\u0643 \u0627\u062d\u0644\u0627\u062c\u0629 \u0661\u0664 \u064e\u0642\u062f \u0627\u0635\u0628\u062a\u0645 \u0645\u062b\u0644\u064a\u0647\u0627 \u064a\u062f\u0644 \u0639\u0644\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0628\u063a\u0636\u0629", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-12034", "words": "748", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "27", "author": "Antrim, Zayde; Vacca, Alison M.", "title": "Masthead & Table of Contents", "date": "2023", "keywords": "east; medieval; middle; review; university", "summary": "Book Review Editors Malika Dekkiche, University of Antwerp Luke Yarbrough, University of California, Los Angeles Editorial Board, Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 Manan Ahmed, Columbia University Sean Anthony, The Ohio State University Mushegh Asatryan, University of Calgary Hannah Barker, Arizona State University Francesca Bellino, Universit\u00e0 di Napoli \u201cL\u2019Orientale\u201d Evrim Binba\u015f, Universit\u00e4t Bonn Amina Elbendary, The American University in Cairo Corisande Fenwick, University College London Eve Krakowski, Princeton University Josef Meri, Hamad Bin Khalifa University Oya Pancaro\u011flu, Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i 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 Arezou Azad (President), University of Oxford The University of Texas at Austin Najam Haider (Vice President), Barnard College Robert Haug (Secretary), University of Cincinnati Omniya Abdel Barr (Board Member), Victoria and Albert Museum and Egyptian Heritage Rescue Foundation Khodadad Rezakhani (Board Member), Leiden University Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg (Board Member), Harvard University Iman Darwish (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/ Editors Zayde Antrim, Trinity College Alison M. Vacca, Columbia University 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.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-12365", "words": "11168", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Aljoumani, Said; Reier, Benedikt", "title": "The Documentary Depth of Hadith Transmission: Audition Attendance Lists", "date": "2024", "keywords": "attendance; attendance list; audition; audition attendance; certificates; hadith; ibn; list; manuscript; section; sessions; sib\u1e6d; transmission; \u1e25ajar; \u1e63a\u1e25\u012b\u1e25", "summary": "The Damascene scholar Ibn N\u0101\u1e63ir al-D\u012bn al-Dimashq\u012b (d. 842/1438) wrote a short treatise on these signs on the basis of the audition attendance list for a 630/1233 transmission of the \u1e62a\u1e25\u012b\u1e25 al-Bukh\u0101r\u012b in the Mu\u1e93affar\u012b Mosque37 on Mount Q\u0101siy\u016bn, next to Damascus.38 Ibn N\u0101\u1e63ir al-D\u012bn al-Dimashq\u012b, \u201cal-Inti\u1e63\u0101r li-sam\u0101\u02bf al-\u1e24ajj\u0101r,\u201d in Majm\u016b\u02bf f\u012bhi ras\u0101\u02beil li-l-\u1e24\u0101fi\u1e93 Ibn N\u0101\u1e63ir al-D\u012bn al-Dimashq\u012b, ed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-12366", "words": "19421", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Marashi, Taryn", "title": "Dark Deeds, Broken Bodies: Medieval Islamic Narratives of Violence against Corpses", "date": "2024", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; b. al; b. \u02bfabd; beirut; bodies; body; caliph al; corpse; dead; death; d\u0101r al; funerary; grave; ibn al; islamic; is\u1e25\u0101q; kha\u1e6d\u012bb al; kit\u0101b al; medieval; muslim; mu\u1e25ammad; m\u016bs\u0101; punishment; ta\u02ber\u012bkh; violence; wus\u1e6d\u0101; zayy\u0101t; \u02bfabd al; \u1e6dabar\u012b", "summary": "See also the brief mention of Ibn al-Zayy\u0101t\u2019s death in al-Kha\u1e6d\u012bb al-Baghd\u0101d\u012b, Ta\u02ber\u012bkh Baghd\u0101d, 3:594\u201395. Disliked by many of his colleagues, Ibn al-Zayy\u0101t was, according to the historian al-Ya\u02bfq\u016bb\u012b (d. 294/897), \u201ca man of intense severity and little compassion,\u201d traits that he manifested in his treatment of people.41 The historian al-Kha\u1e6d\u012bb al-Baghd\u0101d\u012b (d. 463/1071) adds that Ibn al-Zayy\u0101t and Ibn Ab\u012b Du\u02be\u0101d (d. 240/854), a chief judge and inquisitor during the mi\u1e25na controversy whom al-Mutawakkil favored early on in his reign, were bitter enemies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-12418", "words": "1861", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Heidemann, Stefan; Franz, Kurt; Mewes, Katharina", "title": "Military Foundations, Rib\u0101ts, and Urbanization: The Roman, Early Islamic, and Spanish Empire in Comparison", "date": "2024", "keywords": "cities; empire; islamic; military; roman", "summary": "However, as time went on, the manumission of military slaves broadened the Muslim elite beyond its initial Arab ethnic origin, and military cities developed into civilian ones. These included: long-distance military logistics and strategy (the small Spanish armies were without any possibility of fast replenishment); the role of imperial competitors (the Spanish Empire had to defend its realm against other European empires); questions of regional autonomy (the Spanish provinces possessed a high degree of internal autonomy while the far-away Crown provided the legal frame); the production of regional loyalty far away from the center (a powerful loyalty bound Spanish American elites to the Crown until the nineteenth century); relations with conquered people (Church and Crown expressed the need to protect natives against undue exploitation); the relation to nomads at the fringes (the Apache and Comanche were at various times allies and foes, and only the horses of the Spanish Empire enabled them to build up vast nomadic realms of their own).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-12456", "words": "44446", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Greenwood, Tim; Grant, Alasdair; Hagan, Kieran; Pecorini Goodall, Leone; Read, Lewis", "title": "A Neglected Armenian Source of the Late Umayyad Era: The Martyrdom of Vahan of Go\u0142t\u2018n", "date": "2025", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; ant\u2018ilias; armenian; body; century; christian; city; context; death; era; et al; god; go\u0142t\u2018n; greek; greenwood; hayoc; hish\u0101m; history; holy; islamic; lord; martyrdom; muslim; narrative; note; patmut\u2018iwn; place; press; prince; roman; ru\u1e63\u0101fa; saint; sasanian; source; tann; text; thomson; time; trans; umayyad; university; vacca; vahan; work; world; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u0142ewond", "summary": "Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 33 (2025) A Neglected Armenian Source of the Umayyad Era \u2022 72 Translation [869]157 Lament for the evils that came to pass across this country of Armenia in one hundred and fifty-two of the era158 through fire and captivity by the southern people of Ishmael,159 along with the martyrology of Saint Vahan, who was the son of Saint Xosrov, lord of Go\u0142t\u2018n.160 And after thirty-three years of the captivity of Armenia Saint Vahan was martyred, in one hundred and eighty-five of the era.161 (1.1) Just as late antique Armenian literary compositions can be viewed as Sasanian sources, in that they were composed within the borders\u2014real and conceptual\u2014of Sasanian Iran (\u0112r\u0101n\u0161ahr) and were shaped by the political, social, and cultural contexts in which they were produced, so Armenian works composed in the eighth and ninth centuries may be treated as Umayyad or \u02bfAbb\u0101sid sources, in that they, too, were composed inside the caliphate\u2014the d\u0101r al-Isl\u0101m.5 Arguably, therefore, the perceived isolation of medieval Armenian compositions reflects the linguistic and disciplinary boundaries of modern scholarship rather than the original circumstances of their production.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-12470", "words": "14791", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Hiatt, Alfred", "title": "Ibn Khald\u016bn\u2019s Muqaddima and the Maps of al-Idr\u012bs\u012b", "date": "2025", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; arabic; cities; clime; description; fols; geography; hiatt; history; ibn khald\u016bn; idr\u012bs\u012b; maghrib; maps; muqaddima; musht\u0101q; nuzhat al; reading; rosenthal; sea; section; south; text; trans; world; wus\u1e6d\u0101", "summary": "Similar points are made in the \u02bfIbar: Ibn Khald\u016bn, T\u0101r\u012bkh al-duwal al-isl\u0101miyya, 1:26\u201327, 47, 81. Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 33 (2025) Ibn Khald\u016bn\u2019s Muqaddima and the Maps of al-Idr\u012bs\u012b \u2022 26 Ocean, and the Black Sea? \u02bfAbd al-Ra\u1e25m\u0101n Ibn Khald\u016bn, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History, trans.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-12533", "words": "9047", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Baptiste, Enki", "title": "Review of Al Salimi and Madelung, Ib\u0101\u1e0d\u012b Texts", "date": "2024", "keywords": "ab\u016b; al salimi; b. al; century; early; epistle; history; ib\u0101\u1e0dism; ib\u0101\u1e0d\u012b; islamic; madelung; oman; salimi; siyar; sources; s\u012bra; texts", "summary": "The s\u012bra of Mun\u012br b. al-Nayyir al-Ja\u02bfl\u0101n\u012b is of considerable interest in understanding how the Omani Ib\u0101\u1e0d\u012b community addressed the challenge of piracy (no. 4, pp. Based on other siyar he authored and late biographical dictionaries, however, it can be safely assumed that he lived during the same period as Mun\u012br b. al-Nayyir al-Ja\u02bfl\u0101n\u012b or H\u0101shim b. Ghayl\u0101n.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-12541", "words": "18631", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Blessing, Patricia", "title": "Mail-Order Mihrabs: Collaborative Labor in the Design of Tile Revetments in Iran and the Ottoman Empire", "date": "2024", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; architecture; art; blair; blessing; century; fig; ilkhanid; inv; iran; islamic; kashan; luster; medieval; mihrab; museum; new; ottoman; persian; press; production; shrine; site; tiles; university; wus\u1e6d\u0101", "summary": "Although most known sites where Kashan tiles were installed are located within present-day Iran, they were also exported widely, as archaeological evidence shows. Sarre was by no means innocent when it comes to trade in plundered tile revetments, as a number of Kashan tiles, some attributed to specific sites in Iran and others without provenance, were part of his collection of Islamic art: Sarre, Denkm\u00e4ler persischer Baukunst, figs.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-12671", "words": "24878", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Rapp, Stephen H.", "title": "Medieval Georgian Coinage: A Cross-Cultural Introduction", "date": "2024", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; arabic; armenian; bagratid; bennett; byzantine; cambridge; caucasia; caucasus; century; christian; coinage; coins; cross; davit\u02bb; dundua; eastern; empire; fig; georgian; giorgi; god; history; image; inscription; islamic; king; k\u02bbart\u02bbuli; medieval; modern; new; numizmatika; oxford; press; rapp; reverse; series; source; stephen; studies; t\u02bbamar; t\u02bbbilisi; university; university press; vol; world; wus\u1e6d\u0101", "summary": "See Irakli P\u02bba\u0121ava [Paghava], \u201c\u0160uasaukunovan k\u02bbart\u02bbul monetebze gamosaxuli p\u02bbiguruli ni\u0161nebis interpretac\u02bbia: heraldikuri p\u02bbigura da ara monograma,\u201d Heroldi (2016): 73\u201383, with English summary, \u201cFigured Symbol on Medieval Georgian Coins: Alternative Interpretation,\u201d at 115; and Stephen H. Rapp Jr., \u201cThe Coinage of T\u02bbamar, Sovereign of Georgia in Caucasia: A Preliminary Study in the Numismatic Inscriptions of Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Georgian Royal Coinage,\u201d Le Mus\u00e9on 106, nos. The use of Arabic on Georgian coins is unrelated to the translation of Christian texts from Arabic into Georgian.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-12725", "words": "16854", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Leube, Georg", "title": "Mkrti\u010d\u02bb Na\u0142a\u0161: An Armenian Bishop as Pillar of the Aqquyunlu State? : Synchronisms in the Armenian and Aqquyunlu History of Diyarbak\u0131r, 1430\u20131450 CE", "date": "2025", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; aqquyunlu; armenian; bishop; cathedral; century; christian; church; dari; december; des; diyarbak\u0131r; ergani; foundation; history; ibn; mamluk; manuscript; mkrti\u010d\u02bb; na\u0142a\u0161; note; qara; rulers; state; wus\u1e6d\u0101; xa\u010d\u02bbikyan; \u02bfuthm\u0101n; \u1e25amza", "summary": "To bridge this gap, the present contribution examines three pivotal moments in the tenure of the Armenian bishop, painter, and poet Mkrti\u010d\u02bb Na\u0142a\u0161 (d. after 1469 CE) in Diyarbak\u0131r to argue that his career was inextricably entangled with the trajectory of the Aqquyunlu \u201cTurkmen\u201d rulers who were establishing Diyarbak\u0131r as a regional center at the time. Accordingly, I suggest that we should see the processes of Aqquyunlu state formation as including members of the Armenian clerical elite such as Mkrti\u010d\u02bb Na\u0142a\u0161.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-12780", "words": "18317", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Lawrence, Jonny", "title": "Emotional Manipulation, Coercion, and Precarity in the Tales of Jam\u012bl and Buthayna ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; beirut; beloved; buthayna; coercion; desire; d\u0101r; d\u0101r al; experience; h\u0323usayn; ibn; ibn al; i\u1e63bah\u0101n\u012b; jam\u012bl; kuthayyir; lawrence; literature; love; manipulation; medieval; poetry; precarity; press; reading; relationship; scene; stories; story; time; tradition; university; way; women; world; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u02bfudhr\u012b", "summary": "Ah\u0323mad \u02bfAbd al-Sal\u0101m \u02bf A\u1e6d\u0101 (Beirut: D\u0101r al-Kutub al-\u02bfIlmiyya, 1971), 331\u201337; Mughul\u1e6d\u0101y b. Qil\u012bj, al-W\u0101d\u0323ih\u0323 al-mub\u012bn f\u012b dhikr man ustushhida min al-muh\u0323ibb\u012bn (Beirut: Mu\u02beassasat al-Intish\u0101r al-\u02bfArab\u012b, 1997), 158\u201368; Ibn Ab\u012b H\u0323ajala, D\u012bw\u0101n al-\u1e63ab\u0101ba (Beirut: D\u0101r wa-Maktabat al-Hil\u0101l, 1980), 251. See, for example, Ab\u016b al-Faraj al-I\u1e63bah\u0101n\u012b, Kit\u0101b al-Agh\u0101n\u012b, ed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-12861", "words": "3217", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Matheou, Nicholas", "title": "Turning to Another Possible Medieval Millennium", "date": "2024", "keywords": "ages; cambridge; history; medieval; middle; press; turn; university; world", "summary": "See most relevantly here: Robert I. Moore, \u201cA Global Middle Ages?,\u201d in The Prospect of Global History, ed. Sebastian Conrad, What Is Global History?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-12903", "words": "2336", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Park, Hyunhee", "title": "Defining Global Interconnectedness: The Central Role of the Medieval Middle East in Afro-Eurasian Networks ", "date": "2024", "keywords": "cambridge; east; global; history; medieval; middle; world", "summary": "For example, while historians of China have noted a commercial revolution from 600 to 1400 due to internal factors like improved agricultural technologies, Billy So\u2019s book Prosperity, Region, and Institutions in Maritime China emphasizes the significant, yet often neglected, impact of foreign trade on Quanzhou, including the export of Chinese porcelains to the Middle East during this period.15 Redefining the global Middle Ages to highlight the vibrant exchanges between the medieval Middle East, East Asia, and the wider world challenges traditional Eurocentric narratives and enriches our understanding of the period. This shift is particularly relevant for the study of the medieval Middle East, which played a pivotal role in the interconnected networks of broader Afro-Eurasia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-12922", "words": "1265", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Fancy, Hussein", "title": "The Tides of Global History", "date": "2024", "keywords": "global; history; mediterranean; world", "summary": "During my time in graduate school, historians were trading in truffles for parachutes, which is to say, trading an interest in the smallest scale for the largest.1 Microhistories were giving way to global histories that sought to make sense of a globalized world. Global histories readily became, to borrow a line from David Damrosch, \u201cculturally deracinated, philologically bankrupt, and ideologically complicit with the worst tendencies of global capitalism.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-12946", "words": "4412", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Schine, Rachel", "title": "The Intricate World and the Mundane University", "date": "2024", "keywords": "ages; gma; heng; history; idr\u012bs\u012b; journal; medieval; middle; studies; university; world; \u1e63u\u1e25ba", "summary": "T\u0101j al-D\u012bn b. al-Subk\u012b, \u1e6cabaq\u0101t al-Sh\u0101fi\u02bfiyya al-kubr\u0101, ed. al-Idr\u012bs\u012b, Nuzhat al-musht\u0101q f\u012b ikhtir\u0101q al-\u0101f\u0101q (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaq\u0101fa al-D\u012bniyya, 2002), 1:963. 29.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-12962", "words": "2798", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Kaldellis, Anthony", "title": "The Global Middle Ages between Empire and Neoliberalism", "date": "2024", "keywords": "ages; empire; globalization; gma; history; medieval; western", "summary": "GMA will also not be able to \u201csee\u201d Roman\u00eda\u2014the real name of the east Roman state\u2014if it clings to the axiom that the medieval era began with \u201cthe collapse of the Roman empire\u201d around 500 AD.12 Be that as it may, unlike global history GMA is definitely a new approach, especially its focus on inter-regional connectivity and the flow of goods and culture above and beyond the history of the states in which they were produced. In my effort to understand the Global Middle Ages, I distinguish it from global histories of the Middle Ages.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-12963", "words": "2658", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Davis-Secord, Sarah", "title": "Globalizing the Medieval: A Methodology ", "date": "2024", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; connections; davis; medieval; middle; silk; wus\u1e6d\u0101", "summary": "But what if we approached the \u201cglobal Middle Ages\u201d as a method rather than a claim?1 How could \u201cglobalizing\u201d our study and teaching about the pre-1500 past change not only the words we use to describe that past, but also our understanding of the meanings of it, particularly regarding the ways in which distant regions, cultures, and peoples were linked to each other?2 A globalized system is not simply one in which some societies participate in important linkages across distances, but one in which the connected regions are inextricable from each other and from the system itself.3 Such interdependence could take many shapes, but I think that multidirectionality is an important hallmark of globalized connections: we cannot only think about global connections as a conduit for goods, people, or ideas from 1. To do global work in pre-1500 centuries well, I think we must do it carefully.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-12971", "words": "2788", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Ragab, Ahmed", "title": "The Problem of the Global Middle Ages : A View from the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine", "date": "2024", "keywords": "ages; history; knowledge; middle; modern; narratives; press; science", "summary": "Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 32 (2024) Global Middle Ages Roundtable \u2022 493 discussing non-European history, where the term science is linguistically foreign and does not carry the legitimacy of the word\u2019s Latin ancestry.17 At another level, applying these themes to non-European history offers another layer of provincialization.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-12979", "words": "1155", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Struillou, Ana", "title": "Review of Ghouirgate, Les Empires berb\u00e8res", "date": "2024", "keywords": "almohads; maghrib; north; past", "summary": "However, he contends that, from the late seventeenth century onwards, interest in medieval North Africa shifted from Iberia to France and Holland. The author, a specialist on the Almohad Empire and on the Tamazight languages, sets out to investigate how what he calls the \u201cBerber Empires\u201d\u2014the Almoravids and Almohads\u2014have been perceived and interpreted since the medieval period in North Africa and elsewhere.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-12994", "words": "2394", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Hillenbrand, Carole", "title": "Remarks by the Recipient of the 2023 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award", "date": "2024", "keywords": "arabic; islamic; studies; university; years", "summary": "Even today there are still opportunities galore to research many unduly neglected aspects of medieval Islamic studies. Thus, I gradually acquired a solid knowledge of Islamic history from the rise of Islam to the gunpowder empires of early modern times.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-13011", "words": "4566", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Neggaz, Nassima; Van Renterghem, Vanessa", "title": "Interdisciplinary Sources & Methods for the Study of Pre-Archival Societies: The Case of Baghdad", "date": "2024", "keywords": "abbasid; baghdad; berkel; city; history; neggaz; panel; period; renterghem; sources; van", "summary": "Eug\u00e9nie R\u00e9billard focused on criminal figures in early Abbasid Baghdad by analyzing a range of literary and normative sources. The conference concluded with a public lecture by Hugh Kennedy and Maaike van Berkel, which explored the crucial role of food and water in early Abbasid Baghdad.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-13012", "words": "1241", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Bearman, Peri", "title": "Thierry Bianquis", "date": "2015", "keywords": "bianquis; edition; french; thierry; years", "summary": "As my professional relationship with Thierry began at this time and in this context, I will limit my remarks to the years of his tenure as last editor of the French edition of the EI. Thierry, and his predecessor, spent countless bruising hours in their search for money to pay for the encyclopedia articles to be translated into French, and more often than is widely known took the translations upon themselves, unpaid.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-13013", "words": "21150", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Banister, Mustafa", "title": "Across Sea and Ocean: Transmitting and Receiving Caliphal Sovereignty Claims between the Late Medieval Cairo Sultanate and the Sultanates of India", "date": "2025", "keywords": "abbasid; al-\u02bfal\u0101q\u0101t; al-\u02bfal\u0101q\u0101t al; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; baghdad; cairo; caliph al; caliphal; caliphate; cambridge; century; coins; delhi; d\u0101r al; d\u012bn; d\u012bn al; f\u012br\u016bz; ghiy\u0101th al; history; ibn; indian; investiture; islam; islamic; muslim; mu\u1e25ammad; new; ocean; press; rulers; sea; sh\u0101h; sultan; sultan al; sultanate; university; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u02bfabd al", "summary": "\u02bfAbd al-R\u0101z\u012bq al-\u1e6can\u1e6d\u0101w\u012b al-Qarm\u016b\u1e6d (Cairo: al-Zahr\u0101\u02be, 1989), 480\u20131; Y\u016bsuf Ibn Taghr\u012bbird\u012b, al-Nuj\u016bm al-z\u0101hira f\u012b mul\u016bk Mi\u1e63r wa-l-Q\u0101hira, ed. Edited by Elizabeth M. Sartain as Jal\u0101l al-D\u012bn al-Suy\u016b\u1e6d\u012b, II: al-Ta\u1e25adduth bi-ni\u02bfmat All\u0101h.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-13029", "words": "1367", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Gunduz, Haci", "title": "Review of Ibn al-Mu\u02bftazz, In Deadly Embrace", "date": "2024", "keywords": "arabic; montgomery; mu\u02bftazz; poems", "summary": "Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 32 (2024): 613-615 Book Review Ibn al-Mu\u02bftazz, \u02bfAbd All\u0101h. However, the palace guards rejected Ibn al-Mu\u02bftazz as an alternative, and he was deposed the following day and ultimately killed shortly thereafter.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-13030", "words": "17112", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Ha, Guangtian", "title": "White Camphor and Peppercorn Hair: Blackness in Medieval Arabo-Asia", "date": "2025", "keywords": "ab\u016b; ab\u016b al; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; arabic; article; asia; black; blackness; cairo; cambridge; camphor; century; china; chinese; d\u0101r al; guangtian; hair; history; indian; islands; kingdom; kunlun; k\u0101f\u016br; literature; medieval; mutanabb\u012b; ocean; people; peppercorn; press; slave; sources; southeast; studies; university; white; world; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u02bfaj\u0101\u02beib; \u02bfaj\u0101\u02beib al; \ufffd \ufffd", "summary": "\u064e\u0651\u064e\u0646 \u064e\u062e\u0644\u064a\u064a\u0644 \ufffd\u0623\u0648\u0635\u0627\u064a\u0646 \ufffd\u0623\u064e\u0651\u0652\u0646 \ufffd\u0623\u0645\u064f\u0633\u0639 \u0648\u064f\ufffd\u0637\u064a\u0639 \u0648\u0627\u0625 \u060c \u0642\u0627\ufffd: \u0627\u0625 \u064d \u0639\u0646 \ufffd\u0623\u064a\u0628 \u0630\u0652\u0631\ufffd Ab\u016b Dharr said, \u201cMy closest friend [i.e., the Prophet] advised me to listen and obey, even if [the leader] is a slave with amputated limbs. \ufffd \u0627\u0651\u0644\ufffd \u0628\u0642\u062d\u0647\u0647\u0641 \u0652\u0631\ufffd\u0623\u064c\u0633 \u0652\u0631\u062c\u0647\u0647\u064e\u0644 \u0645\u0647\u0647\u0646 \ufffd\u0623\u0639\u0650\u0651\u062f\u0627\u0626\u0647\u0647\u0645.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-13041", "words": "15139", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Gajewska, Maria", "title": "What\u2019s in a World? The \u201cIndian Ocean World\u201d as a Research Framework", "date": "2025", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; centuries; century; coast; connections; east; eleventh; evidence; history; indian ocean; littoral; maritime; medieval; ocean world; oman; oxford; period; port; power; red; sea; textiles; trade; university; wus\u1e6d\u0101", "summary": "\u2022 386 This creates confusion and invites the question of why \u201cIndian Ocean world\u201d is a useful framework at all. This chronological framing begins with the first written evidence for direct voyages between the western and eastern poles of the Indian Ocean and ends with the entry of European colonial powers into Indian Ocean trade (first the Portuguese, later the Dutch, British, and French), which ultimately led to its integration with global trade networks.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-13092", "words": "2862", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Hemmat, Kaveh Louis", "title": "The Global Middle Ages, Political History, and Democracy", "date": "2024", "keywords": "cambridge; democracy; history; medieval; middle; modern; university; world", "summary": "Globalizing medieval political history can help ameliorate to this elite myopia. \u2014 Marshall Hodgson2 While political history has consumed so much attention of the historian\u2019s profession as a whole, it is if anything underrepresented as a topic within global and transregional history, and of the medieval period especially.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-13102", "words": "3605", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Flood, Finbarr Barry", "title": "Global Microhistories and the Object Archive", "date": "2024", "keywords": "ages; century; flood; global; globalization; histories; history; materials; middle; university; world", "summary": "In addition, the emergence of early modernity as the Ur-horizon of the global before globalization has often been accompanied by assertions that one can speak of the global in any meaningful sense only after there is a consciousness of all five continents.2 Such an approach assumes that global history begins only around 1500 CE, effectively situating Europe at the heart of things in perpetuity. As the historian Alan Strathern reminds us, \u201c[t]he celebration of connectedness in global history writing risks analytical banality unless we are also able to make visible temporal and geographic variations in its extent.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-13130", "words": "5193", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Tabibzadeh, Arya", "title": "'Mas\u02bealatun or Mas'\u02bealatun? That Is the Question! The Implications of Traditional Persian Metrics for Classical Arabic Stress", "date": "2025", "keywords": "arabic; clar; metra; pattern; persian; recitation; stress; word", "summary": "This conclusion accords with Watson\u2019s reconstruction of ClAr stress, which considers both initial and antepenultimate stress patterns possible (Watson, \u201cWord Stress in Arabic,\u201d 13\u201314). Thus, although complete certainty is impossible, it is likely that the practice of reciting the metra with ClAr word stress patterns was a feature of Persian prosody from its very beginning in the eleventh century.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-13143", "words": "3703", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "31", "author": "Alford, Daniel", "title": "\u0112r\u0101n: Central and West Asia in the First Millennium CE ", "date": "2024", "keywords": "day; empire; forum; keynote; research; sasanian; scholars; university; west; \u0113r\u0101n", "summary": "Part of the problem facing Sasanian scholars is a lack of networks connecting senior and junior academics. Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 32 (2024): 577-583 Conference Report: \u0112r\u0101n: Central and West Asia in the First Millennium CE Research Forum (University of Lille, 15-19 July 2024) Conference Organizers: EkatErina nEchaEva khodadad rEzakhani University of Lille University of Leiden Report by: daniEl alford University of Lille The \u0112r\u0101n: Central and West Asia in the First Millennium CE Research Forum was held on 15\u201319 July 2024 at the University of Lille, France.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-13145", "words": "19807", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Barker, Hannah", "title": "The Tatars of the S\u016bd\u0101n: Race, Place, and Power in Ibn Sa\u02bf\u012bd\u2019s Geography", "date": "2025", "keywords": "ab\u016b al; africa; al al; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; century; damot; dam\u0101dim; east; et al; geography; history; ibn; ibn al; ibn sa\u02bf\u012bd; islam; kingdom; kit\u0101b al; medieval; mongols; new; press; race; sa\u02bf\u012bd al; scholars; studies; s\u016bd\u0101n; tatars; thirteenth; turks; university; west; world; wus\u1e6d\u0101", "summary": "It involved a Tibetan woman whose baby was stolen by an eagle and nursed by a lioness.79 As an adult in human society, he was named Son of the Black Lion (Alb Qar\u0101 Arsl\u0101n Biljik\u012b or Farkh al-Asad al-Aswad).80 Ibn al-Daw\u0101d\u0101r\u012b said that he had encountered this myth in The Book of the Great Ruling Father, a rare volume in the collection of his friend Am\u012bn al-D\u012bn al-\u1e24amaw\u012b in Bilbays, and that the volume attributed the myth to a person from Azerbaijan.81 On one hand, Ibn al-Daw\u0101d\u0101r\u012b described this as a rare book containing a previously unknown story. 1\u2013116: a complete manuscript, dated 714/1314\u201315, titled Kit\u0101b al-Jughr\u0101fiyy\u0101 f\u012b al-aq\u0101l\u012bm al-sab\u02bfa wa-z\u0101d f\u012bhi al-a\u1e6dw\u0101l wa-l-\u02bfar\u016b\u1e0d ziy\u0101da (The book of geography according to the seven climes and the extension in it of the longitudes and the latitudes), which belonged to Ab\u016b al-Fid\u0101, 13.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-13199", "words": "2200", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Auer, Blain", "title": "Review of Brack, An Afterlife for the Khan", "date": "2025", "keywords": "brack; d\u012bn; kingship; mongol; rulers", "summary": "His work contributes to a fuller understanding of how Mongol rulers adapted to and influenced the cultural and political landscapes of the medieval Islamic world. Catholic and Nestorian priests, Sunni and Shi\u02bfa scholars, and Buddhist monks were given a platform to express their views before the court of Mongol rulers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-13210", "words": "853", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "22", "author": "Al-\u02bfUsur al-Wusta Editorial Board", "title": "Masthead & Table of Contents", "date": "2024", "keywords": "board; east; medieval; member; middle; university", "summary": "Book Review Editors Jocelyn Hendrickson, University of Alberta Han Hsien Liew, Arizona State University Editorial Board, Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 Manan Ahmed, Columbia University Sean Anthony, The Ohio State University Mushegh Asatryan, University of Calgary Hannah Barker, Arizona State University Francesca Bellino, Universit\u00e0 di Napoli \u201cL\u2019Orientale\u201d Evrim Binba\u015f, Universit\u00e4t Bonn Amina Elbendary, The American University in Cairo Corisande Fenwick, University College London Eve Krakowski, Princeton University Josef Meri, Hamad Bin Khalifa University Oya Pancaro\u011flu, Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i 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 Arezou Azad (President), University of Oxford Abigail Balbale (Vice President), New York University Robert Haug (Secretary), University of Cincinnati Omniya Abdel Barr (Board Member), Victoria and Albert Museum and Egyptian Heritage Rescue Foundation Walid Saleh (Board Member), University of Toronto Hannah-Lena Hagemann (Board Member), Universit\u00e4t Hamburg Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg (Board Member), Harvard University Iman Darwish (Graduate Student Representative), Harvard University Said Reza Huseini (Graduate Student Representative), Universiteit Leiden Journal Website For submissions, archives, contact information, announcements, and more, please visit: https://journals.library.columbia.edu/", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-13242", "words": "19053", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Baig, Sohaib", "title": "The \u201cLamp of Hind\u201d in Cairo: How an Indian Jurist Became the Chief Hanafi Judge of the Mamluk Sultanate in the Fourteenth Century", "date": "2025", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; asia; beirut; cairo; century; chief; delhi; d\u0101r al; d\u012bn al; hadith; hanafi; hind; ibn; ibn al; indian; islamic; judge; lamp; law; madhhab; mamluk; mecca; mu\u1e25ammad; scholars; school; shafi\u02bfi; sir\u0101j al; south; sultanate; texts; university; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u02bfabd al", "summary": "Is\u1e25\u0101q b. A\u1e25mad Sir\u0101j al-D\u012bn al-Hind\u012b al-\u1e24anaf\u012b (d. 773) ta\u1e25q\u012bqan wa-dir\u0101satan,\u201d Majallat Kulliyyat al-Shar\u012b\u02bfa wa-l-Q\u0101n\u016bn 28, no. 2 (2024): 618\u201374, at 656. A\u1e25mad Sir\u0101j al-D\u012bn al-Hind\u012b al-\u1e24anaf\u012b (d. 773) ta\u1e25q\u012bqan wa-dir\u0101satan.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-13340", "words": "24299", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Melvin-Koushki, Matthew", "title": "Selenocentrism and Heliocentrism in Early Modern Persianate Imperial Cultures: \u02bfAl\u012b versus Jesus, with Hermes Presiding : A Harranian Essay in Astro-Decoloniality", "date": "2025", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; arabic; cambridge; christian; cosmic; cultures; empire; female; god; heliocentrism; history; ibn; imperial; islamic; koushki; latin; lettrist; lunar; magic; matthew; matthew melvin; melvin; mercury; moon; mughal; mu\u1e25ammad; new; occult; ottoman; persian; press; pythagorean; safavid; science; selenocentrism; state; sun; timurid; university; university press; western; world; wus\u1e6d\u0101; york; \u02bfal\u012b", "summary": "Upon \u02bfAl\u012b \u02bf\u0100dilsh\u0101h\u2019s death, Ch\u0101nd B\u012bb\u012b (d. 1600), his wife, took power, and her military exploits against the Mughals earned her fame as Queen of the Deccan to this day.129 As should now be obvious, their royal names were designed to be read together as a simple Islam-in-India imperial riddle: the marriage of \u02bfAl\u012b, King of the Balance (Arabic-Persian), to Ch\u0101nd, God Moon (Sanskrit-Persian), makes a legendary power couple in Hellenic and Vedic terms; that Ch\u0101nd was physically Warrior Queen and female World-Changer too only doubled that Twaining synergy. As astro-decolonial remedy, I propose Selenocentrism and Heliocentrism as a primary binary pair whose creative tension helped shape human cultures generally and Islamicate ones specifically, and early modern Persianate imperial cultures above all: for they saw the apotheosis of the peculiarly Islamic embrace of Harranian-Hermetic astral magic as the preferred vehicle of Neoplatonic philosophical-theurgic practice, rejecting the weird Greek insistence on Moon as nonimperial female only in favor of the Harranian devotion to male Moon as Cosmic King and brother to male-female Hermes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-13799", "words": "2844", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Husayn, Nebil", "title": "Review of Morimoto and Rizvi, Knowledge and Power in Muslim Societies", "date": "2025", "keywords": "chapter; islamic; knowledge; philosophy; power", "summary": "Perhaps further discussion of how Sayyid Mu\u1e25ammad\u2019s understanding of the occultation differed from key exponents of the theory such as al-Shar\u012bf al-Murta\u1e0d\u0101 (d. 1044) and al-Shaykh al-\u1e6c\u016bs\u012b (d. 1067) would have been helpful for readers. Chapter 4, \u201cKnowledge for All: Zayn al-D\u012bn al-Kashsh\u012b (d. before 1228) on Philosophical Writing\u201d by Hisashi Obuchi, explores the various facets of the question \u201cwhat is philosophy?\u201d by examining the work of Zayn al-D\u012bn al-Kashsh\u012b, an influential student of Fakhr al-D\u012bn al-R\u0101z\u012b (d. 1210) who was revered for his expertise in logic.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-14113", "words": "17235", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "104", "author": "J\u0101zim, Mu\u1e25ammad \u02bfAbd al-Ra\u1e25\u012bm ; Varisco, Daniel Martin", "title": "Kit\u0101b al-Safar: A Book on the Management of Travel by a Yemeni Rasulid Sultan", "date": "2025", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; ibn; j\u0101zim; j\u0101zim al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; kit\u0101b al; malik al; mu\u1e25ammad; ra\u1e25\u012bm; ra\u1e25\u012bm j\u0101zim; safar; sultan; text; travel; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u02bfabd al; \u0623 \ufffd; \u0623\u064a\u0628; \u0623\u064a\u0636\u0640\u0640\u0627\u064b; 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law; lenient; schools; sha\u02bfr\u0101n\u012b; strict", "summary": "Abstract \u02bfAbd al-Wahh\u0101b b. A\u1e25mad al-Sha\u02bfr\u0101n\u012b (d. Cairo, 973/1565), al-M\u012bz\u0101n, is a survey of agreements and disagree- ments among the Sunni schools of law. With his uncanny 1. Page references to come will be to al-Sha\u02bfr\u0101n\u012b, Kit\u0101b al-M\u012bz\u0101n, ed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-14148", "words": "2546", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Paul, J\u00fcrgen", "title": "Remarks by the Recipient of the 2024 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award: Given at the Annual Meeting of Middle East Medievalists (13 December 2024)", "date": "2025", "keywords": "asia; central; field; history; scholars; soviet", "summary": "I had already arranged everything for my first trip to Soviet Central Asia when this congress took place, and in September 1986, I flew to Tashkent via Leningrad. In the Soviet period, Muslim Central Asia was the preserve of a very small number of scholars.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-14153", "words": "1312", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Thompson, KD", "title": "The Swahili Coast", "date": "2025", "keywords": "amina; city; swahili", "summary": "In the novel, we learn that Amina\u2019s one-time friend Majed is a cartographer who grew up in Kilwa and once worked for the Sultan, whose authority eventually stretched along the entire Swahili Coast. Born on Pemba, a Swahili island that is today part of Zanzibar, Amina herself is far more complex than most readers will expect: a Muslim 1.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-14154", "words": "2060", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Kooria, Mahmood", "title": "Piracy", "date": "2025", "keywords": "adventures; amina; chakraborty; sirafi", "summary": "Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 33 (2025) A Sea of Sorcery Round Table \u2022 437 Amina al-Sirafi is introduced on the first page as a smuggler and pirate, but after reading almost five hundred pages of the novel, it remains unclear how she qualifies as a pirate, what exact actions made her one, or what precisely she smuggled during her maritime career. Such layered perspectives on piracy, beyond blanket generalizations, are captured in The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty, which tells the story of the titular character set across the northwestern Indian Ocean in the mid-twelfth century.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-14162", "words": "3879", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Lawrence, Jonny", "title": "Serious Laughter: Beyond the Jest-Earnest Binary in Classical Arabic Literature", "date": "2025", "keywords": "comedy; comic; humor; ibn; laughter; literature; paper; s\u016bd\u016bn; university", "summary": "Ab\u016b Mu\u1e25ammad Us\u0101ma b. Ibr\u0101h\u012bm (Cairo: D\u0101r al-Far\u016bq al-\u1e24ad\u012btha, 2008), 10:439 [32492]. 518 \u2022 Jonny LawRence Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 33 (2025) Report on Serious Laughter \u2022 519 moral absolutism can jar against the comedy explicit in the racy poems and stories that follow the Meccan poet in his playful, yet potentially dangerous, dalliances with pilgrims at the Ka\u02bfba. In her presentation, \u201cEarly Islamic Contributions to the Serio-Comic: A David Narrative in a Ninth-century Hadith Collection as Case Study,\u201d Madeline Wyse (University of California, Berkeley) turned our focus from the Prophet Mu\u1e25ammad back to the Prophet D\u0101w\u016bd (David), reading a series of \u1e25ad\u012bths from Ibn Ab\u012b Shayba\u2019s al-Kit\u0101b al-Mu\u1e63annaf f\u012b al-a\u1e25\u0101d\u012bth wa-l-\u0101th\u0101r.2 A scholar of both Rabbinic Judaism and early Islam, Wyse set the normative memory of D\u0101w\u016bd in the Islamic imagination as an icon of repentance, following God\u2019s discussion of D\u0101w\u016bd\u2019s faulty adjudication between two men and later repentance in Qur\u02be\u0101n 38:21\u201325, against earlier prototypical representations of this Prophet-King.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-14167", "words": "3063", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Balachandran, Jyoti Gulati", "title": "Indian Ocean Histories: Connections and Reflections", "date": "2025", "keywords": "cambridge; indian; indian ocean; muslim; ocean; press; university; world", "summary": "With their emphasis on the circulation of individuals, ideas, and commodities over a wider geography, Indian Ocean histories disrupt the area studies model and bring a transregional perspective to the academic study of the Middle East. For the importance of developing a \u201clinguistic and orthographic geography\u201d of the Indian Ocean to better understand cross-cultural exchanges, see Nile Green, \u201cThe Languages of Indian Ocean Studies: Models, Methods and Sources,\u201d History Compass, 20, no. 7 (2022): e12703.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-14193", "words": "1611", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Held, Pascal", "title": "Review of Muhammad, Sufis in Medieval Baghdad", "date": "2025", "keywords": "baghdad; public; sphere; sufis", "summary": "Sufi lodges offered spiritual and material support for people, in the form of instruction and al-\u1e63afwa (Beirut: Da\u0304r al-Kita\u0304b al-\u02bfArabi\u0304, 2012); idem, S\u0323ayd al-kh\u0101\u1e6dir (Beirut: Da\u0304r al-Kutub al-\u02bfIlmiyya, 1992); idem, Salw\u0101t al-a\u1e25z\u0101n bi-m\u0101 ruwiya \u02bf an dhaw\u012b al-\u02bfirf\u0101n (Alexandria: Mansha\u02beat al-Ma\u02bfa\u0304rif, 1970); \u02bf Abd al-Qa\u0304dir al-Ji\u0304la\u0304ni\u0304, al-Ghunya li-\u1e6d\u0101lib\u012b \u1e6dar\u012bq al-\u1e25aqq (Beirut: Da\u0304r I\u1e25ya\u0304\u02be al-Tura\u0304th al-\u02bfArabi\u0304, 1996); idem, Fut\u016b\u1e25 al-ghayb (Cairo: al-Maktaba al-Azhariyya li-l-Tura\u0304th, 2004); idem, al-Fat\u1e25 al-rabb\u0101n\u012b (Giza: Da\u0304r al-Raya\u0304n li-Tura\u0304th, n.d.); Abu\u0304 al-Naji\u0304b al-Suhrawardi\u0304, Ad\u0101b al-mur\u012bd\u012bn ([Jerusalem]: Institute of Asian and African Studies, Hebrew University, 1978); Abu\u0304 \u1e24af\u1e63 \u02bfUmar al-Suhrawardi\u0304, \u02bfAw\u0101rif al-ma\u02bf\u0101rif (Cairo: Maktaba al-Thaqa\u0304fa al-di\u0304niyya, 2006); Najm al-Di\u0304n Ra\u0304zi\u0304, Mir\u1e63\u0101d al-\u02bfib\u0101d (Tehran: Sherikat-i Intisha\u0304ra\u0304t-i \u02bfIlmi\u0304 wa-Farhangi\u0304, 1988). Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 33 (2025): 537-539 Book Review Muhammad, Atta.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-14229", "words": "3110", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Saif, Liana", "title": "Witches", "date": "2025", "keywords": "aisha; amina; dalila; liana; magic; occult; saif; sirafi; women", "summary": "\u02bfIzz al-D\u012bn b. al-Ath\u012br, al-K\u0101mil f\u012b al-t\u0101r\u012bkh, ed. Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 33 (2025): 414-419 Witches Liana Saif University of Amsterdam Aisha Qandisha, one of the most well-known female jinn figures in Moroccan folklore, both feared and desired, is frequently depicted as an impossibly beautiful woman with animalistic traits below the waist which she conceals until it is too late.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-14262", "words": "1530", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Bosanquet, Antonia", "title": "Review of Aillet, L\u2019archipel ibadite", "date": "2025", "keywords": "aillet; chapter; ibadi; maghrib", "summary": "Later, in the twelfth century, the incursions of the Ayyubid commander Qar\u0101q\u016bsh put further pressure on Ibadi communities, as did the raids of the Banu Gh\u0101niyya from the thirteenth century, who used Ibadi settlements for their conflict with the Almohads. Aillet, who has devoted considerable attention in previous works to notions of centrality, margins, and connectivity in empire, makes this question the pivot of his study of Ibadi history in the Maghrib.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-14278", "words": "2131", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Bishara, Fahad Ahmad", "title": "Voyage Stories: The Natural and Supernatural on the Deck of a Dhow", "date": "2025", "keywords": "fiction; indian; ocean; voyage; world", "summary": "The voyage narrative is, in a sense, a genre of world history. For what is the truth in voyage narratives?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-14285", "words": "8047", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Wu, Sylvia", "title": "The Multiplicity of Mosque Architecture in China", "date": "2025", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; architecture; central; china; chinese; fig; hall; islamic; minaret; mosque; multiplicity; muslim; quanzhou; site; students; wus\u1e6d\u0101", "summary": "Is it valid for the state to argue that domes are not authentic to China\u2019s Muslim architecture and replace them with elements reminiscent of a tradition most widely followed in historical China, such as that of the Great Mosque of Xi\u2019an? 4. What does this suggest about the geography of religious authority in imperial China? Fig.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-14291", "words": "2609", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Hankins, Rebecca", "title": "Faith, Freedom, and Favors", "date": "2025", "keywords": "amina; chakraborty; faith; fiction; novel; world", "summary": "The beauty of The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi is that Amina embodies the complexity and simplicity of Islam and forcefully demonstrates that Islam is monotheistic, not monolithic. There is Dalila, the Christian apothecary whose knowledge of explosives saves Amina countless times.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-14299", "words": "2897", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "van Dalen, Elaine", "title": "Review of Ibn Bu\u1e6dl\u0101n, The Doctor\u2019s Dinner Party", "date": "2025", "keywords": "bu\u1e6dl\u0101n; dinner; ibn; party; \u1e25add\u0101d", "summary": "The most recent editions include the one by \u02bf\u0100dil al-Bakr\u012b (2002), who used a privately owned manuscript, which he collated with the Zalzal manuscript and MS 66/24 from al-Maktaba al-Ahmadiyya (Mosul),13 and \u02bfIzzat \u02bfUmar\u2019s version (2003) based on MS Ambrosiana and a manuscript from al-Maktaba al-M\u0101r\u016bniyya (Aleppo).14 The present editors used, as did al-Bar\u016bd\u012b, the eighteenth-century MS \u1e24add\u0101d as the base text for their edition, touting its \u201cunambiguous superiority\u201d (p. xxix) in view of its completeness and reliability in terms of poetry. For translations of the Arabic biographies of Ibn Bu\u1e6dl\u0101n in Ibn al-Qif\u1e6d\u012b and Ibn Ab\u012b U\u1e63aybi\u02bfa, see Joseph Schacht and Max Meyerhof, The Medico-Philosophical Controversy between Ibn Bu\u1e6dl\u0101n of Baghdad and Ibn Ri\u1e0dw\u0101n of Cairo: A Contribution to the History of Greek Learning among the Arabs (Cairo: Maktabat B\u016bl Bar B\u012bh, 1937), 51\u201366 (for the date 440, see p. 53).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-14300", "words": "676", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Hamza, Shireen", "title": "A Sea of Sorcery: Roundtable on The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi", "date": "2025", "keywords": "amina", "summary": "Ibn al-Muj\u0101wir, \u1e62ifat bil\u0101d al-Yaman wa-Makka wa-ba\u02bf\u1e0d al-\u1e24ij\u0101z (Cairo: D\u0101r al-Thaq\u0101fa al-D\u012bniyya, 1996), 296\u201397. 2. Shannon Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (New York: Harper Voyager, 2023), 57\u201358. Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 33 (2025): 412-413 A Sea of Sorcery: Roundtable on The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi Shireen hamza Northwestern University When Shannon Chakraborty published The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, I realized that it may become the most popular English-language book about the medieval Indian Ocean world to be published in my lifetime.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-14301", "words": "3209", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Hamza, Shireen", "title": "Transformation", "date": "2025", "keywords": "amina; gender; jamal; mu\u1e25ammad; novel; people; sex", "summary": "Najm al-D\u012bn Mu\u1e25ammad al-Ghazz\u012b, al-Kaw\u0101kib al-s\u0101\u02beira bi-a\u02bfy\u0101n al-mi\u02beat al-\u02bf\u0101shira (Beirut: D\u0101r al-Kutub al-\u02bfIlmiyya, 1997), 1:51. 11. Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 33 (2025): 425-430 Transformation Shireen hamza Northwestern University Narrating The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi\u2014a novel about Islam and motherhood, crew and captain, sorcery and sea monsters\u2014is a quiet scribe named Jamal.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-14308", "words": "2538", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Asatryan, Mushegh", "title": "Review of Thaver, Beyond Sectarianism", "date": "2025", "keywords": "intellectual; qur\u02be\u0101n; ra\u1e0d\u012b; sectarianism; shi\u02bfi; thaver", "summary": "See, for example, the rules of debate explicitly articulated by the tenth-century Muslim theologian, Ab\u016b al-\u1e24asan al-Ash\u02bfar\u012b (d. 936), as recorded by Ibn F\u016brak, Maq\u0101l\u0101t al-shaykh Ab\u012b l-\u1e24asan al-Ash\u02bfar\u012b, ed. It first situates al-Ra\u1e0d\u012b in his political and cultural milieu and the \u1e24aq\u0101\u02beiq in its literary and intellectual context.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-14313", "words": "1004", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "De Smet, Daniel", "title": "Review of Hollenberg and Asatryan, The Nusayri Path of Knowledge", "date": "2025", "keywords": "arabic; manuscript; text", "summary": "A copy of a slightly older manuscript, dated 1810 and kept in a private collection in Jerusalem, was provided to the editors by Meir Bar-Asher, one of the leading scholars in the field of Nu\u1e63ayr\u012b studies. 51\u201353), the editors admit that they were confronted with a problem, which seems recurrent when editing this kind of text.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-14381", "words": "906", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "22", "author": "none", "title": "Masthead & Table of Contents", "date": "2025", "keywords": "board; medieval; member; middle; review; university", "summary": "Book Review Editors Jocelyn Hendrickson, University of Alberta Han Hsien Liew, Arizona State University Pedagogy File Editor Mathilde Montpetit, New York University Editorial Board, Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 Manan Ahmed, Columbia University Sean Anthony, The Ohio State University Mushegh Asatryan, University of Calgary Hannah Barker, Arizona State University Francesca Bellino, Universit\u00e0 di Napoli \u201cL\u2019Orientale\u201d Evrim Binba\u015f, Universit\u00e4t Bonn Amina Elbendary, The American University in Cairo Corisande Fenwick, University College London Eve Krakowski, Princeton University Josef Meri, Hamad Bin Khalifa University Oya Pancaro\u011flu, Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i 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 Arezou Azad (President), University of Oxford Abigail Balbale (Vice President), New York University Jonathan Z. Brack (Secretary), Northwestern University Omniya Abdel Barr (Board Member), Victoria and Albert Museum and Egyptian Heritage Rescue Foundation Walid Saleh (Board Member), University of Toronto Hannah-Lena Hagemann (Board Member), Universit\u00e4t Hamburg Evyn Kropf (Board Member), University of Michigan Noemie Lucas (Board Member), University of Edinburgh Adam Ramadhan (Graduate Student Representative), Universiteit Leiden Journal Website For submissions, archives, contact information, announcements, and more, please visit: https://journals.library.columbia.edu/ Editors Zayde Antrim, Trinity College Alison M. Vacca, Columbia University 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.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6779", "words": "19799", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Bonner, Michael", "title": "In Search of the Early Islamic Economy", "date": "2019", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; bonner; brill; caliphate; cambridge; cambridge university; early; economy; empires; history; islamic; journal; law; leiden; markets; michael; modern; new; press; roman; state; time; trade; umayyad; university; university press; world; wus\u1e6d\u0101", "summary": "\u02bfAbd All\u0101h b. Shih\u0101b al-D\u012bn al-Samh\u016bd\u012b, Waf\u0101\u02be al-waf\u0101\u02be bi-akhb\u0101r D\u0101r al-Mu\u1e63\u1e6daf\u0101 (Cairo: Ma\u1e6dba\u02bfat al-\u0100d\u0101b, 1373/1953), 1:541\u201343; R. Foote, \u201cUmayyad Markets and Manufacturing: Evidence for a Commercialized and Industrializing Economy in Early Islamic Bil\u0101d al-Sh\u0101m\u201d (PhD diss., Harvard University, 1999), 182\u201383. 80. See also A. Walmsley, \u201cProduction Exchange and Regional Trade in the Islamic East Mediterranean: Old Structures, New Systems?,\u201d in The Long Eighth Century: Production, Distribution and Demand, ed. I. L. Hansen and C. Wickham, 265\u2013343 (Leiden: Brill, 2000); idem, Early Islamic Syria: An Archaeological Assessment (London: Bloomsbury, 2007); M. Morony, \u201cEconomic Boundaries?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6780", "words": "36494", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Klasova, Pamela", "title": "Reacting to Mu\u1e25ammad: Three Early Islamic Poets in the Kit\u0101b al-Agh\u0101n\u012b *", "date": "2019", "keywords": "ab\u016b; ab\u016b al; ab\u016b khir\u0101sh; ab\u016b mi\u1e25jan; agh\u0101n\u012b; akhb\u0101r; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; appendix; arabic; b. al; ban\u016b al; blood; cambridge; death; d\u012bw\u0101n; encyclopaedia; history; ibn al; islamic; i\u1e63fah\u0101n\u012b; j\u0101hiliyya; j\u0101hil\u012b; kit\u0101b al; klasova; life; man; memory; mufa\u1e0d\u1e0dal al; muslim; mu\u1e25ammad; new; pamela; poem; poetry; poets; press; scholars; second; society; stetkevych; su\u1e25aym; time; tradition; tribe; university; verses; war; wine; world; wus\u1e6d\u0101; zuhayr; \u02bfabd al", "summary": "The second aim is to follow the later reception of the poets and their incorporation into the Arabo-Islamic canon through an examination of the narratives (akhb\u0101r) that accompany the verses in Ab\u016b al-Faraj al-I\u1e63fah\u0101n\u012b\u2019s (d. 356/967) Kit\u0101b al-Agh\u0101n\u012b, the underlying assumption being that these akhb\u0101r are secondary to the verses. Ab\u016b al-Faraj al-I\u1e63fah\u0101n\u012b, Kit\u0101b al-Agh\u0101n\u012b, ed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6781", "words": "12666", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "73", "author": "van Putten, Marijn", "title": "A Newly Discovered Letter of the Early Arabic Alphabet: A Distinction between Final J\u012bm and Final \u1e24\u0101\u02be/Kh\u0101\u02be and Its Nabataean Origins*", "date": "2019", "keywords": "6087; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; appendix; arabe; arabic; curved; distinction; example; islamic; jun\u0101\u1e25; j\u012bm; letter; manuscripts; nos; n\u016b\u1e25; r\u012b\u1e25; shape; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u1e25\u0101\u02be; \u1e25\u0101\u02be/kh\u0101\u02be", "summary": "bi-ma\u1e63\u0101b\u012b\u1e25 (201r, l. 14) Q67:30 \u02bea\u1e63ba\u1e25a (202r, l. 8) Q69:6 bi-r\u012b\u1e25 (203r, l. 12) Q69:52 fa-sabbi\u1e25 (203v, l. 23) Q70:4 Q4:100 yakhruj (Arabe 330g 53r, l. 10) Q9:46 al-khur\u016bj (Arabe 330g 64r, l. 14) Q35:13 y\u016bliju (Arabe 334a 7v, l. 6) Q7:56 al-riy\u0101\u1e25 (A328a, 32v.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6784", "words": "19126", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Schine, Rachel", "title": "Nourishing the Noble: Breastfeeding and Hero-Making in Medieval Arabic Popular Literature", "date": "2019", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; arabic; beirut; breastfeeding; brill; cairo; child; children; dh\u0101t al; d\u0101r al; d\u0101rim; et al; family; hero; himma; ibn; islam; islamic; junduba; kinship; leiden; literature; making; medieval; milk; moses; mother; mu\u1e25ammad; new; nourishing; nurse; nursing; popular; press; qi\u1e63a\u1e63 al; rachel; schine; s\u012brat al; s\u012brat dh\u0101t; text; university; version; wet; wife; women; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u02bfabd al; \u1e25usna", "summary": "On this feature, see A\u1e25mad Shams al-D\u012bn al-\u1e24ajj\u0101j\u012b, Mawlid al-ba\u1e6dal f\u012b al-s\u012bra al-sha\u02bfbiyya (Cairo: D\u0101r al-Hil\u0101l, 1991), 48\u201349; Nab\u012bla Ibr\u0101h\u012bm, Ashk\u0101l al-ta\u02bfb\u012br f\u012b al-adab al-sha\u02bfb\u012b (Cairo: D\u0101r Nah\u1e0dat Mi\u1e63r, 1966), 129. 8. Ashk\u0101l al-ta\u02bfb\u012br f\u012b al-adab al-sha\u02bfb\u012b.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6785", "words": "16097", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "O\u2019Malley, Austin", "title": "An Unexpected Romance: Reevaluating the Authorship of the Khosrow-n\u0101ma*", "date": "2019", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; argument; authorship; century; din; din \u02bfa\u1e6d\u1e6d\u0101r; el\u0101hi; farid al; introduction; kadkani; khosrow; lines; manuscript; man\u1e6deq; mokht\u0101r; n\u0101ma; persian; poem; poetry; romance; shafi\u02bfi; tehran; works; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u02bfa\u1e6d\u1e6d\u0101r", "summary": "One of the difficulties for \u02bfA\u1e6d\u1e6d\u0101r scholarship has been the dearth of biographical information, both within his 7. George Morrison (Leiden: Brill, 1981); Seyyed Hossein Nasr, \u201cSome Observations on the Place of \u02bfA\u1e6d\u1e6d\u0101r within the Sufi Tradition,\u201d in Colloquio italo-iraniano sul poeta mistico Fariduddin \u02bfA\u1e6d\u1e6d\u0101r (Roma, 24\u201325 Marzo 1977) (Rome: Accademia An Unexpected Romance: Reevaluating the Authorship of the Khosrow-n\u0101ma* Austin O\u2019MAlley The University of Arizona (austinomalley@email.arizona.edu)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6786", "words": "18214", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Pogossian, Zaroui", "title": "Women, Identity, and Power: A Review Essay of Antony Eastmond, Tamta\u2019s World", "date": "2019", "keywords": "academy; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; armenian; book; century; church; des; eastmond; erevan; family; georgian; history; identities; identity; inscriptions; iwan\u0113; monastery; power; press; sciences; sources; tamta; t\u2018amt\u2018a; women; world; wus\u1e6d\u0101; zak\u2018arids; zak\u2018ar\u0113", "summary": "However, her methodological considerations on the facets of Armenian identity and the tension between modern scholarly discourse limited by a \u201cnational\u201d view and the available evidence would have added depth to Eastmond\u2019s own analysis.10 Zekiyan, too, has explored the multiple components of medieval Armenian identity, emphasizing its \u201cpolyvalence.\u201d 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 Xaw\u1e59as, given that Xaw\u1e59as and Zmruxt eventually commissioned a Gospel manuscript that commemorated Xut\u2018lu Xat\u2018un.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6787", "words": "3012", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Gallorini, Louise ", "title": "Mysticism and Ethics in Islam", "date": "2019", "keywords": "conference; ethics; islamic; paper; sufi; sufism; university", "summary": "Acknowledging that no exact equivalent of ethics as a philosophical category can be found within the Islamic intellectual heritage, and recognizing that Muslim scholars have not methodically studied this category as defined today, this paper explored the place of the Sufi tradition in dealing with ethical considerations in the Sunni intellectual tradition while challenging the commonly held view that the latter Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 27 (2019) Conference Report: Mysticism and Ethics in Islam \u2022 269 took an antiphilosophical and antirational turn after al-Ghaz\u0101l\u012b\u2019s (d. 1111) critique of philosophy. Looking beyond the existing view of Muslim reformers\u2019 criticism of Sufism, this paper described how, on the contrary, such reformers embraced and promoted certain aspects of classical works of Sufism, a prime example being the I\u1e25y\u0101\u02be \u02bful\u016bm al-d\u012bn by al-Ghaz\u0101l\u012b (d. 1111), which was used by reformers such as Rash\u012bd Ri\u1e0d\u0101 (d. 1935) and Mu\u1e25ammad \u02bfAbduh (d. 1905) in driving home their own ethical concerns.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6788", "words": "8358", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Sidky, Hythem", "title": "Daniel Alan Brubaker, Corrections in Early Qur\u02be\u0101nic Manuscripts", "date": "2019", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; all\u0101h; book; brubaker; corrections; example; manuscripts; quranic; rasm; standard; text; word; wus\u1e6d\u0101", "summary": "The plethora of early manuscripts at our disposal combined with digital technologies making them accessible has reawakened a fervor among both scholars and the public. First, one would have to show that the incidence of orthographic deviations is greater in earlier manuscripts than in later ones.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6790", "words": "3872", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Legendre, Marie", "title": "Jennifer A. Cromwell, Recording Village Life: A Coptic Scribe in Early Islamic Egypt. ", "date": "2019", "keywords": "aristophanes; chapter; coptic; cromwell; djeme; documents; tax; texts; village", "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, \u201cRecording Taxes,\u201d shows that Aristophanes was first involved in drawing up fiscal documents in 724, when he wrote tax demand notes for the office of the am\u012br of Luxor and Esna, Sahl b. \u02bfAbd All\u0101h.3", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6791", "words": "1852", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Steven Judd, Steven", "title": "Mathieu Tillier, L\u2019invention du cadi: La justice des Musulmans, des Juifs et des Chr\u00e9tiens aux premiers si\u00e8cles de l\u2019Islam. ", "date": "2019", "keywords": "islamic; q\u0101\u1e0d\u012b; sources; tillier", "summary": "Tillier was able to identify thirty-eight papyri dealing with legal procedures in the collections catalogued in the Arabic Papyrology Database (https://www. Tillier addresses a variety of aspects of legal procedure, focusing primarily on the functioning of judicial audiences or hearings.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6792", "words": "1884", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "S\u00e1nchez, Ignacio", "title": "Hans-Peter P\u00f6kel, Der unma\u0308nnliche Mann: Zur Figuration des Eunuchen im Werk von al-G\u030ca\u0304h\u0323iz\u0323 (gest. 869)", "date": "2019", "keywords": "eunuchs; j\u0101\u1e25i\u1e93; p\u00f6kel", "summary": "The reception of the Aristotelian Problemata by al-J\u0101\u1e25i\u1e93 and, in general, by the Basran Mu\u02bftazila is a complicated matter that awaits further research, but I cannot help but wonder whether many of the notions and argumentations that we can read in the K. al-\u1e24ayaw\u0101n might not have come, in fact, from this tradition. P\u00f6kel provides here a detailed discussion of the castration techniques that al-J\u0101\u1e25i\u1e93 describes in intricate detail in his K. al-\u1e24ayaw\u0101n and that might involve surgical excision (khi\u1e63\u0101\u02be, gonadectomy, and jib\u0101b, penectomy) or contusions that result in testicular atrophy (wij\u0101\u02be, the Latin ablatio).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6793", "words": "2039", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Lynch, Ryan J.", "title": "Scott Savran, Arabs and Iranians in the Islamic Conquest Narrative", "date": "2019", "keywords": "arab; islamic; narrative; savran; sources", "summary": "This discussion furnishes an opportunity for Savran to introduce the \u201caudience trope\u201d that is such an integral part of the depiction of the Sasanians in Islamic sources (and a key part of the book\u2019s final three chapters). 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:", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6794", "words": "2789", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Schine, Rachel", "title": "Adam Talib, How Do You Say \u201cEpigram\u201d in Arabic? Literary History at the Limits of Comparison", "date": "2019", "keywords": "arabic; epigram; genre; maq\u0101\u1e6d\u012b\u02bf; poems; talib", "summary": "Maq\u0101\u1e6d\u012b\u02bf poems were not explicitly discussed as a genre by premodern literary critics. The first chapter, \u201cA Bounding Line,\u201d then turns to the historical trajectory through which maq\u0101\u1e6d\u012b\u02bf poems came to prominence under a formal designation throughout the seventh/thirteenth century.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6795", "words": "1796", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Bianchini, Janna", "title": "William Chester Jordan, The Apple of His Eye: Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IX. J", "date": "2019", "keywords": "converts; jordan; louis; muslims", "summary": "But when faced with the question of whether Louis IX\u2019s evangelical efforts among Muslims actually produced converts, or what might have become of such converts after their baptisms, most historians would demur; given the limited William Chester Jordan, The Apple of His Eye: Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IX. On this subject, Jordan\u2019s own first book is still required reading: William C. Jordan, Louis IX and the Challenge of the Crusade: A Study in Rulership (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6798", "words": "3449", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "van Lit, O.P., L. W. Cornelis ", "title": "Joel Blecher, Said the Prophet of God: Hadith Commentary across a Millennium ", "date": "2019", "keywords": "blecher; book; commentaries; commentary; hadith; writing", "summary": "Chapter 7 shifts the focus back to the unique challenges posed by al-J\u0101mi\u02bf al-\u1e63a\u1e25\u012b\u1e25 of al-Bukh\u0101r\u012b. Where this succinctness actually hurts the argumentation is in chapter 8, in which Blecher is able to show that al-Suy\u016b\u1e6d\u012b preferred short commentaries but comes up short in explaining exactly why and what impact this preference had.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6799", "words": "4182", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Parkes Allen, Jonathan", "title": "Thomas A. Carlson, Christianity in Fifteenth-Century Iraq. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization ", "date": "2019", "keywords": "carlson; century; christian; church; east; fifteenth; muslim; period; press; university", "summary": "In more recent years, \u201cAssyrian\u201d and \u201cChaldean\u201d 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. Finally, an expanded sense of Islamic diversity might help to further explicate one of Carlson\u2019s more striking discoveries, concerning the East Syriac sense of time and practices of saint veneration.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6800", "words": "3124", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Connelly, Coleman", "title": "The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy. Edited by Khaled El-Rouayheb and Sabine Schmidtke. Oxford Handbooks ", "date": "2019", "keywords": "handbook; oxford; philosophy; volume", "summary": "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. The volume concludes, in an exciting first for the field of Islamic philosophy as traditionally conceived, by discussing four twentieth-century philosophers\u2014 Mu\u1e25ammad Iqb\u0101l (d. 1938), Mu\u1e25ammad B\u0101qir al-\u1e62adr (d. 1979), \u02bfAll\u0101ma \u1e6cab\u0101\u1e6dab\u0101\u02be\u012b (d. 1981), and Zak\u012b Naj\u012bb Ma\u1e25m\u016bd, treated respectively by Mustansir Mir (ch. 27),", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6802", "words": "2157", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Leiser , Gary", "title": "Remembering Speros Vryonis, Jr. ", "date": "2019", "keywords": "center; greek; speros; studies; vryonis; work", "summary": "In Turkey, Aydo\u011fan Demir (Tarih Remembering Speros Vryonis, Jr. Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 27 (2019): 343 Incelemeleri Dergisi 1 [1983]) considered the book worthless. Upon his retirement the Vryonis Center was closed, and in 2002 its library was transferred to California State University Sacramento, where it became the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6804", "words": "4350", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Walmsley, Alan", "title": "Remembering Kenneth G. Holum", "date": "2019", "keywords": "caesarea; excavations; history; holum; ken; students; university; years", "summary": "Ken loved teaching, and he especially loved working with his graduate students. At first, by his own admission, Ken was party to this disingenuous interpretation of Caesarea\u2019s history, but by the 1980s significant doubt as to the validity of this view began to appear in a number of Ken\u2019s publications, culminating in his ground-breaking BASOR publication of 1992 entitled \u201cArchaeological Evidence for the Fall of Byzantine Caesarea.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6805", "words": "4731", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Borrut, Antoine ", "title": "Remembering Michael Bonner", "date": "2019", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; arabic; bonner; michael; student; time; work; wus\u1e6d\u0101", "summary": "Remembering Michael Bonner Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 27 (2019): 357 When I think through these disjointed snippets in light of conversations I have had with others since Michael passed in May, a few common threads emerge to force cohesion on the rambling and unpredictable memories. Remembering Michael Bonner Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 27 (2019): 358 While people who knew Michael only from his work might think first of the scholar with such exacting standards for his own work as well as the work of his students\u2014 I can also remember how quickly that laugh turned back toward the business at hand\u2014and a polyglot\u2019s linguistic mastery, those of us who had the advantage of studying under and working alongside Michael knew him as a warm and funny man whose enthusiasm for his work and learning in general drew many of us away from other pursuits to study the history of the medieval Islamic world with him.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6807", "words": "3709", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "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", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; archaeology; east; field; islamic; near; studies; study; wus\u1e6d\u0101", "summary": "Awards Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 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 necessitated study of historical contexts as well as art historical resources.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6809", "words": "881", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Borrut, Antoine; Gordon, Matthew", "title": "Letter from the Editors", "date": "2019", "keywords": "issue; journal; university", "summary": "We are pleased to be publishing our fifth issue of Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 in its current online and peer-reviewed format. Finally, we would like to thank the History Department at the University of Maryland; it is their continued institutional support that has helped keep Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 an open-access journal.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6823", "words": "1038", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Borrut, Antoine; Gordon, Matthew S. ", "title": "Letter from the Editors", "date": "2018", "keywords": "islamic; reviews; scholarship", "summary": "To simply restate our central guiding principle from previous letters, we remain committed to using al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 as a platform from which to bring out important and groundbreaking new scholarship. The contributions to this fourth issue of al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 (UW) in its new (online, open-access, peer- reviewed) format includes, alongside a set of article-length studies, eight book reviews, including a contribution by Peter Brown (Princeton University); three conference reports; a short notice by Sean Anthony; and Elton Daniel\u2019s obituary of the late and much lamented Ehsan Yarshater.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6848", "words": "2919", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Pinckney Stetkevych, Suzanne ", "title": "Remarks by the Recipient of the 2017 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award Given at the Annual Meeting of Middle East Medievalists ", "date": "2018", "keywords": "arabic; history; islamic; poem; poetry; qa\u1e63ida; work", "summary": "For me, that was Arabic poetry, clearly text-based and grounded in a variety of Islamic and Middle East Studies fields, but now engaging as well a wide range of exhilarating ideas, from linguistics to literary theory, from structuralism to ritual theory, that held the promise of bringing classical Arabic poetry out of the Orientalist closet and engaging and integrating it into a broader humanistic enterprise. [By this I mean the \u201chigh\u201d qa\u1e63\u012bd poetry, not the more common-place and eminently imitable rajaz-type poetry such as we find in al-S\u012brah al-Nabawiyyah.]", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6850", "words": "30267", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Morris, Ian D.", "title": "Mecca and Macoraba*", "date": "2018", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; ancient; arabian; arabic; arabs; bochart; brill; century; chicago; crone; der; derivation; dictionary; dozy; early; eds; et al; geography; great; hebrew; history; islam; islamic; johann; leiden; leipzig; london; macoraba; makkah; mecca; medieval; mkrb; morris; new; oxford; paris; place; press; ptolemy; scholars; sources; south; studies; temple; town; trade; university; van; vol; word; wus\u1e6d\u0101", "summary": "(London: James and John Knapton et al., 1728), s.v. Bearman, P.J. et al., eds.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6852", "words": "8757", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Fierro, Maribel; Cressier, Patrice", "title": "Introduction", "date": "2018", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; almohad; andalus; caliphate; caliphs; de al; del; des; fierro; history; ibn; islamic; les; new; paris; west; wus\u1e6d\u0101", "summary": "For a scholar who worked for some time in the Almohad court, al-Sal\u0101lij\u012b does not seem to have suffered any persecution for reminding his readers that infallibility or impeccability was limited to the prophets\u2014thus excluding Ibn T\u016bmart and his representation as al-im\u0101m al-ma\u02bfs\u016bm al-mahd\u012b al-ma\u02bfl\u016bm\u2014and that Ab\u016b Bakr, \u02bfUmar, \u02bfUthm\u0101n and \u02bfAl\u012b were the rightly guided caliphs and imams (fa-hum al-khulaf\u0101\u02be al-r\u0101shid\u016bn wa-al-a\u02beimma al-mahdiyy\u016bn), a characterization that the Almohad caliphs tried hard to associate with themselves in various ways. Beirut: D\u0101r al-gharb al-isl\u0101m\u012b, 1411/1991.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6853", "words": "8075", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Toral-Niehoff, Isabel ", "title": "Writing for the Caliphate: The Unique Necklace by Ibn \u02bfAbd Rabbih*", "date": "2018", "keywords": "abbasid; adab; andalus; caliphal; caliphate; de al; des; ibn; ibn \u02bfabd; islamic; kit\u0101b; knowledge; rabbih; umayyad; \u02bfabd; \u02bfabd al; \u02bfiqd", "summary": "There I have shown that Ibn \u02bfAbd Rabbih organized his history as biographies of an uninterrupted chain of legitimate rulers (khulaf\u0101\u02be) that linked the Prophet, via the eastern Umayyads, with the Umayyads in al-Andalus, ending with \u02bfAbd al-Ra\u1e25m\u0101n al-N\u0101\u1e63ir. Ibn \u02bfAbd Rabbih belonged to a class of citizens on the inferior rung of the social ladder who sought the patronage of those above them: this is suggested by the fact that he addressed several of his panegyrics to two prestigious members of the elite buyut\u0101t (large aristocratic houses), namely to the commander A\u1e25mad b. Mu\u1e25ammad b. Ab\u012b \u02bfAbd\u0101\u02be19 and the minister \u02bfAbdall\u0101h b. Mu\u1e25ammad al-Zajj\u0101l\u012b,20 which indicates that the precariously employed court poet was seeking to gain access to the inner circles.21 We do not know if he ever held an official position in the court administration as a k\u0101tib or some other capacity.22 After a period spent outside Cordoba during the fitna at the end of the 3rd/9th century, he returned to the Umayyad court of Cordoba around 300/912, where he spent the last decades of his life as court poet of \u02bfAbd al-Ra\u1e25m\u0101n al-N\u0101\u1e63ir, whom he praised in numerous poems, the most famous being a long urj\u016bza celebrating military campaigns undertaken at the beginning of his rule.23 It is likely that the cumbersome collection and composition of the \u02bfIqd took place during this tranquil period in his life, under the tutelage of \u02bfAbd al-Ra\u1e25m\u0101n al-N\u0101\u1e63ir.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6855", "words": "8714", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Thiele, Jan", "title": "Facing the Mahd\u012b\u2019s True Belief: Ab\u016b \u02bfAmr al-Sal\u0101lij\u012b\u2019s Ash\u02bfarite Creed and the Almohads\u2019 Claim to Religious Authority", "date": "2018", "keywords": "ab\u016b; al-\u02bfaq\u012bda; al-\u02bfaq\u012bda al; almohad; ash\u02bfarite; doctrine; existence; god; ibn; irsh\u0101d; juwayn\u012b; proof; sal\u0101lij\u012b; t\u016bmart; \u02bfaq\u012bda", "summary": "al-Sal\u0101lij\u012b, \u02bf Aq\u012bda, 87\u20139/23 and Im\u0101m al-\u1e24aramayn Ab\u016b al-Ma\u02bf\u0101l\u012b al-Juwayn\u012b, Kit\u0101b al-Irsh\u0101d il\u0101 qaw\u0101\u1e6di\u02bf al-adilla Im\u0101m al-\u1e24aramayn Ab\u016b al-Ma\u02bf\u0101l\u012b al-Juwayn\u012b, al-\u02bfAq\u012bda al-ni\u1e93\u0101miyya, ed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6856", "words": "20232", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Albarr\u00e1n, Javier", "title": "The Jih\u0101d of the Caliphs and the First Battles of Islam: Memory, Legitimization and Holy War, from Cordoba to Tinmal", "date": "2018", "keywords": "ab\u016b; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; almohad; andalus; battles; bay\u0101n al; caliph al; caliphs; de al; de ibn; de la; eds; fierro; history; ibn al; islam; islamic; jih\u0101d; kit\u0101b al; los; madrid; memory; mu\u1e25ammad; new; prophet; t\u016bmart; umayyad; vol; war; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u02bfabd al", "summary": "Ibn \u02bf Idh\u0101r\u012b, al-Bay\u0101n al-Mughrib f\u012b akhb\u0101r al-Andalus wa al-Maghrib, eds. Ibn \u02bfIdh\u0101r\u012b, al-Bay\u0101n al-Mughrib, vol. II, 294; Dhikr bil\u0101d al-Andalus, ed. and trans.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6857", "words": "9193", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Buresi, Pascal ", "title": "Preparing the Almohad Caliphate: The Almoravids*", "date": "2018", "keywords": "ab\u016b; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; almohad; almoravid; andalus; authority; caliphate; century; de al; ibn; islam; maghrib; power; tashf\u012bn; wus\u1e6d\u0101; y\u016bsuf; y\u016bsuf b.; \u02bfabd al", "summary": "Ab\u016b al-\u1e24akam \u02bfAl\u012b b. Mu\u1e25ammad b. \u02bfAbd al-Malik \u02bfAbd al-\u02bfAz\u012bz al-Lakhm\u012b al-Murkh\u012b was the secretary for \u02bfAbd al-Mu\u02bemin, following his father, who held the same position under \u02bfAl\u012b b. Y\u016bsuf b. Tashf\u012bn. This was also the case in al-Andalus where the dynasty of the Umayyad emirs (138/756-316/929), then the caliphs (316/929-422/1031), reinforced this Arab supremacy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6858", "words": "14886", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Ariza Armada, Almudena", "title": "The \u1e24amm\u016bdid Caliphate: A New Look through the Lens of Numismatics", "date": "2018", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; andalus; ariza; ariza armada; caliphate; ceuta; coins; de al; de barcelona; de la; de los; ibn; idr\u012bs; las; madrid; monedas de; m\u00e1laga; new; or\u00e1n; ya\u1e25y\u0101; \u02bfal\u012b; \u1e25amm\u016bdid; \u1e25amm\u016bd\u00ed", "summary": "3. Ibn \u02bfIdh\u0101r\u012b, Kit\u0101b al-Bay\u0101n III = Kit\u0101b al-Bay\u0101n al-Mughrib f\u012b akhb\u0101r al-Andalus wa-al-Maghrib, ed. Ibn \u02bfIdh\u0101r\u012b, Kit\u0101b al-Bay\u0101n al-Mughrib f\u012b akhb\u0101r al-Andalus wa-al-Maghrib.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6860", "words": "3134", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Anthony, Sean W. ", "title": "Notes and Brief Communications", "date": "2018", "keywords": "evidence; fallacy; ibn; inscription; islamic; material; mawl\u0101; mu\u02bf\u0101wiyah; sa\u02bf\u012bd", "summary": "\u02bfUmar \u02bfAbd al-Sal\u0101m al-Tadmur\u012b (Beirut: D\u0101r al-Kutub al-\u02bfArab\u012b, 2012), 3: 318. reasons having to do both with its legal ramifications for the shedding of blood within the sacred precincts of Mecca and for its role in polemics directed against the legitimacy of the Zubayrids. All other accounts give the name of the mawl\u0101 as Sa\u02bfd rather than Sa\u02bf\u012bd (i.e., , not )\u2014names that are easily confused.18 Indeed, the oldest source to mention Ibn al-Zubayr\u2019s crucifixion of the man\u2014the Mu\u1e63annaf of \u02bfAbd al-Razz\u0101q al-\u1e62an\u02bf\u0101n\u012b \u0633\u0639\u064a\u062f \u0633\u0639\u062f Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 26 (2018)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6861", "words": "3543", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Vacca, Alison M.", "title": "Navigating Language in the Early Islamic World", "date": "2018", "keywords": "arabic; documents; east; islamic; language; period; university; world", "summary": "He also suggested, then, that we might uncover the variations of early Islamic Arabic by revisiting the traditional corpora, focusing specifically on Christian Palestinian Arabic and Judeo-Arabic. In the final presentation, \u201cTowards an Arabic Cosmopolis: Culture and Power in Early Islam,\u201d Antoine Borrut (University of Maryland) presented the two main narratives that have dominated the discussions of language change in the early Islamic world, Arabization and the translation movement.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6862", "words": "1742", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Seeden, Helga", "title": "Post-Eurocentric Poetics: New Approaches from Arabic, Turkish and Persian Literature", "date": "2018", "keywords": "arabic; persian; poetics; poetry; university", "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 \u201cdynamic for the transmission of literary tradition.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6863", "words": "2709", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Gallorini, Louise", "title": "Approaches to the Study of Pre-Modern Arabic Anthologies", "date": "2018", "keywords": "anthologies; anthology; ibn; panel; poetry; university", "summary": "Ghayde Ghraowi (New York University) presented a paper on Ray\u1e25\u0101nat al-alibb\u0101 by Shih\u0101b al-D\u012bn al-Khaf\u0101j\u012b (d. 1069/1658), a literary anthology compiling works of the author\u2019s contemporaries as well as his own, in a particular political context. A\u1e25mad al-Sarr\u0101j al-Q\u0101ri\u02be (d. 500/1107).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6867", "words": "3371", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Brown, Peter", "title": "Muriel Debi\u00e9. L\u2019\u00e9criture de l\u2019histoire en syriaque. Transmissions interculturelles et constructions identitaires entre hell\u00e9nisme et islam. ", "date": "2018", "keywords": "christianity; christians; church; debi\u00e9; east; empire; middle; syriac; world", "summary": "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?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6868", "words": "2626", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Pomerantz, Maurice A. ", "title": "Ab\u016b Is\u1e25\u0101q al-\u1e62\u0101bi\u02be, D\u012bw\u0101n Ras\u0101\u02beil al-\u1e62\u0101b\u012b\u02be. ", "date": "2018", "keywords": "edition; hachmeier; letters; ras\u0101\u02beil; th\u0101mir\u012b; \u1e63\u0101bi\u02be", "summary": "I\u1e25s\u0101n Dhann\u016bn al-Th\u0101mir\u012b (Beirut: D\u0101r \u1e62\u0101dir, 2010); al-Khw\u0101rizm\u012b, Ras\u0101\u02beil, ed. M. Pourgol (Tehran: Anjuman-i \u0100th\u0101r va Maf\u0101khir-i Farhang\u012b, 2005); al-Hamadh\u0101n\u012b, Bad\u012b\u02bf al-Zam\u0101n, Kashf al-ma\u02bf\u0101n\u012b wa-al-bay\u0101n \u02bfan ras\u0101\u02beil Bad\u012b\u02bf al-Zam\u0101n, ed. I. al-\u1e6car\u0101buls\u012b (Beirut: al-Ma\u1e6dba\u02bfa al-K\u0101th\u016bl\u012bkiyya, 1890). such as the letters of al-\u1e62\u0101\u1e25ib b. \u02bfAbb\u0101d (d. 385/995), \u02bfAbd al-\u02bfAz\u012bz b. Y\u016bsuf a l -Sh\u012br\u0101z \u012b (d . 375/985) , Ab\u016b Bakr al-Khw\u0101rizm\u012b (d. 383/993) and Bad\u012b\u02bf al-Zam\u0101n al-Hamadh\u0101n\u012b (d. 398/1008) were collected primarily for the training of scribes employed in state chanceries. Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bauden, \u201cReview of Al-Maw\u0101\u02bfi\u1e93 wa-l-i\u02bftib\u0101r f\u012b dhikr al-khi\u1e6da\u1e6d wa-l-\u0101th\u0101r li-Taq\u012b al-d\u012bn A\u1e25mad ibn \u02bfAl\u012b ibn \u02bfAbd al-Q\u0101dir al-Maqr\u012bz\u012b.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6869", "words": "1306", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Melchert, Christopher ", "title": "Lena Salaymeh, The Beginnings of Islamic Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions ", "date": "2018", "keywords": "islamic; law; salaymeh", "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. A theoretical chapter against the idea of identifiably Aryan or Semitic origins of Islamic law seems mostly an exercise in knocking down straw men.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6870", "words": "1246", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Renard, John", "title": "Sabine Schmidtke, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology ", "date": "2018", "keywords": "handbook; oxford; theology; volume", "summary": "An especially welcome aspect of the volume\u2019s historical coverage is the organic treatment of major schools, from their precursors to their more \u201cformal\u201d foundational origins, through their survival and continuations across the centuries. On an initial cursory glance at the table of contents, one might get the impression that the Ash\u02bfarite wing got the lion\u2019s share of coverage among major schools, perhaps at the expense of its too-little studied and under-appreciated opposite number, the M\u0101tur\u012bd\u012bya.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6871", "words": "3227", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Shachar, Uri ", "title": "Diego R. Sarrio Cucarella, Muslim-Christian Polemics across the Mediterranean:", "date": "2018", "keywords": "chapter; christian; christianity; cucarella; muslim; qar\u0101f\u012b", "summary": "Chapter 3 treats the first chapter of al-Ajwiba, which is also the most polemical one in tone and content, where al-Qar\u0101f\u012b responds to the claims brought forth in the Melkite tradition that stand at the bottom of this correspondence. The final chapter of al-Ajwiba (and the penultimate chapter in Cucarella\u2019s book) deals with proofs of Mu\u1e25ammad\u2019s prophecy that al-Qar\u0101f\u012b attempts to find in the Old and New Testament.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6872", "words": "1295", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Walker, Paul E.", "title": "Michael Brett, The Fatimid Empire. The Edinburgh History of the Islamic Empires ", "date": "2018", "keywords": "book; brett; ismaili", "summary": "Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 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. 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 \u201cseveners\u201d 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.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6873", "words": "2930", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Ali, Kecia", "title": "Matthew S. Gordon and Kathryn Hain, eds., Concubines and Courtesans", "date": "2018", "keywords": "concubinage; concubines; gordon; hain; islamic; slavery; volume; women", "summary": "One thread weaving through the volume is the way that reproductive strategies, especially but not only when rulership is in play, might lead to shifting preferences for marriage to free women, who could offer family alliances, or concubinage with enslaved women, whose lack of such ties would avoid potential divided loyalties. One of the merits of this volume is the number of enslaved women about whom it presents biographical information\u2014 though of varying levels of detail and facticity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6874", "words": "6730", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Durand-Gu\u00e9dy, David ", "title": "Vanessa Van Renterghem, Les \u00e9lites bagdadiennes au temps des Seldjoukides", "date": "2018", "keywords": "baghdad; book; chap; elites; ibn; period; renterghem; saljuq; sources; van; van renterghem; work", "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\u2019s have much in common: the same main biographical sources, the same focus on the \u02bfulam\u0101\u02be (not the only elites dealt with by Van Renterghem, but certainly the most documented), and the same themes (e.g. assessing Baghdad\u2019s attraction or the family background of the \u02bfulam\u0101\u02be). Here, it seems to me that the most important sources on Saljuq Baghdad encapsulate a \u1e24anbal\u012b-Abbasid point of view that, to some extent, was embraced by Van Renterghem.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6875", "words": "840", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Daniel , Elton L. ", "title": "Ehsan Yarshater", "date": "2018", "keywords": "studies; university; yarshater", "summary": "In Memoriam Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 26 (2018): 270-272 The passing of Ehsan Yarshater, the Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Columbia University, on 2 September 2018 in Fresno, California, was a tremendous loss not just for Iranian studies but for the scholarly world. With the recommendation and support of Henning, Yarshater received a visiting position at Columbia University in 1958, and, in 1961, was appointed to the new Kevorkian chair in Iranian studies there, which he held until his retirement in 1999.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6994", "words": "851", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Borrut, Antoine ", "title": "Letter from the Editors", "date": "2017", "keywords": "middle; reviews; scholarship", "summary": "UW stands as a platform from which to bring out significant new scholarship. Finally, we are also determined to promote non-Anglophone scholarship.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6995", "words": "3556", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Donner, Fred M. ", "title": "The Maturing of Medieval Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies", "date": "2017", "keywords": "1970s; arabic; history; islamic; middle; programs; studies; study", "summary": "Language study in Iran has been difficult for American students since 1979 for obvious reasons. I would say that programs for language study in Turkey, which have until recently been quite robust, must be put on our watch list as political developments play out in that country.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6996", "words": "4282", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Thomas Miller, Matthew", "title": "Important New Developments in Arabographic Optical Character Recognition ", "date": "2017", "keywords": "accuracy; data; kraken; model; ocr; script; texts; training", "summary": "Figure 2: Kraken\u2019s Transcription Interface 8 \u2022 Kiessling, miller, romanov, & savant Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 25 (2017) producing a library of OCR models that gradually will cover all major typefaces and editorial styles used in modern Arabic-script printing. See: https://github.com/tmbdev/clstm https://github.com/tmbdev/ocropy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCRopus https://github.com/tmbdev/clstm 10 \u2022 Kiessling, miller, romanov, & savant Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 25 (2017)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6997", "words": "15769", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Treadwell, Luke ", "title": "The Numismatic Evidence for the Reign of A\u1e25mad b. \u1e6c\u016bl\u016bn ", "date": "2017", "keywords": "ab\u016b; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; a\u1e25mad; a\u1e25mad b.; b. \u1e6d\u016bl\u016bn; caliph; caliph al; caliphal; coins; dinars; d\u0101ya; egypt; evidence; governor; ibn al; ibn \u1e6d\u016bl\u016bn; mi\u1e63r; muwaffaq; mu\u02bftamid; state; tulunid; wus\u1e6d\u0101; year", "summary": "Fahmy, \u02bfA., \u2018Al-\u1e63inaj al-\u1e6d\u016bl\u016bniyya wa al-sikka al-ikhsh\u012bdiyya wa al-jad\u012bd f\u012bhim\u0101\u2019, Baghdad, 1957, pp. A recent specimen of this type offered for sale in the Bruno Peus auction of 7 \u20139 November 2012, identifies the date of issue as 2(6)4/877 and the mint as al-thugh\u016br al-sh\u0101miyya (Peus 2012, no. 1471).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6998", "words": "13053", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Cooperson, Michael ", "title": "The Abbasid \u201cGolden Age\u201d: An Excavation", "date": "2017", "keywords": "abbasid; age; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; arabic; arabs; baghdad; century; cooperson; culture; decline; der; early; example; golden; history; ibn; islamic; literature; michael; new; ottoman; period; studies; von; wus\u1e6d\u0101; zayd\u0101n", "summary": "48 \u2022 Michael cooperson Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 25 (2017) al-tamaddun al-isl\u0101m\u012b. 2. Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 25 (2017) The Abbasid \u201cGolden Age\u201d: An Excavation \u2022 57 and the overall effect is so dense that the few obvious fabrications (for example, the story where Ibn Hanbal is shipwrecked on a desert island, \u00b64.22) stand out like a sore thumb.71 To fully appreciate the reality effect (as Roland Barthes would call it) of this material, we might compare it to what is known about an earlier celebrity, al-\u1e24asan al-Ba\u1e63r\u012b (d. 728).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-6999", "words": "23819", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Vacca, Alison M. ", "title": "Conflict and Community in the Medieval Caucasus", "date": "2017", "keywords": "ab\u016b; ab\u016b al; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; arab; arabic; arcruni; armenian; army; a\u0161ot; bagratuni; bugh\u0101; bugh\u0101 al; campaign; caucasus; christian; communities; community; conflict; history; ibn; identity; is\u1e25\u0101q; khuwaythiyya; medieval; muslim; m\u016bs\u0101; patmut\u2018iwn; power; press; son; sources; ta\u02ber\u012bkh; t\u2018ovma; women; wus\u1e6d\u0101; xut; \u1e6dabar\u012b", "summary": "In this leg of the campaign, according to al-\u1e6cabar\u012b, \u201cBugh\u0101 also sent Ab\u016b al-\u02bfAbb\u0101s al-W\u0101rith\u012b al-Na\u1e63r\u0101n\u012b against the inhabitants of Armenia, Arab and non-Arab alike\u201d ( ).63 Bugh\u0101 sat above the town and watched Z\u012brak and Ab\u016b al-\u02bfAbb\u0101s burn the city and capture Is\u1e25\u0101q and his son \u02bf Amr. Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 25 (2017): 66-112 In 238/852-3,1 Ab\u016b M\u016bs\u0101 Bugh\u0101 al-Kab\u012br, a celebrated general in al-Mutawakkil\u2019s army, sent two of his lieutenants, Z\u012brak and the son of Ab\u016b al-\u02bfAbb\u0101s, against an opponent named Ab\u016b M\u016bs\u0101 in the town of Kith\u012bsh/K\u2018t\u2018i\u0161.2", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7000", "words": "15869", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Hoyland, Robert G. ", "title": "Reflections on the Identity of the Arabian Conquerors of the Seventh-Century Middle East", "date": "2017", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; arab; arabic; believers; century; community; conquerors; donner; god; history; hoyland; identity; islam; islamic; muhammad; muslim; new; path; press; religion; term; university; webb; wus\u1e6d\u0101", "summary": "Webb presents his theory in his book Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016), on which see Philip Wood\u2019s review in this issue of Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101; in his review of my In God\u2019s Path: \u201cThe March of Islam\u201d, Times Literary Supplement, 13 March 2015, 24; and in the article in the following footnote. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/42023/among-the-believers 118 \u2022 RobeRt G. Hoyland Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 25 (2017) One could interpret this for or against Donner, since on the one hand, \u201cthose who believe\u201d are distinguished from Jews, Sabians and Christians, intimating an awareness of confessional boundaries, but, on the other hand, they are categorized together with Jews, Sabians and Christians in respect of their common belief in God and the Last Day, their righteous behavior and an implication of easy entry into heaven.23 Thus, although it is not made explicit in what way other monotheist groups related to Muhammad\u2019s community in this world, they certainly would appear to be on a par with Muhammad\u2019s community in the next world, sharing equally in the benefits of the afterlife.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7001", "words": "3586", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Antrim, Zayde", "title": "Spatial Thought in Islamicate Societies", "date": "2017", "keywords": "century; conference; franz; genre; geography; space; thought; university; work", "summary": "Conference Report Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 25 (2017): 141-148 For two days in the picturesque Swabian university town of T\u00fcbingen, a lively cohort of researchers came together for the first international confer- ence on spatial thought in Islamicate societies, 1000-1600 CE. Opening the first panel on the theme of genre, Emmanuelle Tixier du Mesnil (Universit\u00e9 Paris X Nanterre La D\u00e9fense) Spatial Thought in Islamicate Societies, 1000-1600: The Politics of Genre, Image, and Text (T\u00fcbingen, 30 March to 1 April 2017) Zayde Antrim, Jean-Charles Duc\u00e8ne, and Kurt Franz 142 \u2022 Zayde antrim, Jean-Charles duC\u00e8ne, & Kurt FranZ Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 25 (2017) challenged traditional history of science approaches to Islamicate geography that amount to a catalog of discoveries (or, as she quipped, errors) shorn of social or political context.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7002", "words": "14438", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Dehghani Farsani , Yoones ", "title": "New Insights into Early Islamic Historiography", "date": "2017", "keywords": "ab\u016b; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; arabic; a\u02bftham; a\u1e25mad; b. al; fitna; fut\u016b\u1e25 al; historiography; history; ibn; ibn al; ibn a\u02bftham; islamic; jews; kit\u0101b al; muslim; mu\u1e25ammad; prophet; qur\u02be\u0101n; scheiner; sh\u0101m; sources; translation; work; wus\u1e6d\u0101; w\u0101qid\u012b", "summary": "While, for example, an analysis of a wide range of classical sources on the descriptions of Bur\u0101q has shown that the information about its physical appearance originates exclusively in Basra, and is found especially in the Basran exegete Qat\u0101da b. Di\u02bf\u0101ma\u2019s (d. 118/735) narrations, I can show that Ibn Is\u1e25\u0101q\u2019s accounts on the isr\u0101\u02be episodes also demonstrate that the Basran exegetical traditions (i.e., a mixture of Qat\u0101da\u2019s and his teacher al-\u1e24asan al-Ba\u1e63r\u012b\u2019s Overall, my contribution discusses the role of the early second/eighth Basran exegetical material, especially the traditions which are often attributed to al-\u1e24asan al-Ba\u1e63r\u012b and Qat\u0101da, both in IV.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7003", "words": "3253", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Wood, Philip", "title": "Peter Webb, Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam", "date": "2017", "keywords": "arabic; arabs; islamic; peninsula; roman; script; use; webb", "summary": "It was not simply a period of ungodly impiety for all writers, and he emphasizes the degree to which authors like al-Bal\u0101dhur\u012b recognized a nobility among pre-Islamic Arabs that anticipates the cultural competition between their (alleged) descendants and non-Arab Muslims (268). 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.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7004", "words": "3066", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Gordon, Matthew S. ", "title": "Joshua Mabra, Princely Authority in the Early Marw\u0101nid State: The Life of \u02bfAbd al-\u02bfAz\u012bz ibn Marw\u0101n ", "date": "2017", "keywords": "al-\u02bfaz\u012bz; egypt; islamic; mabra; new; \u02bfabd", "summary": "\u02bfAbd al-\u02bfAz\u012bz governed Egypt for twenty years\u201465/685 to 85/705\u2014during which time he stood as heir to \u02bfAbd al-Malik (d. 85/705), the caliph, his far better known half-brother. Marw\u0101n did so in style, marrying twice, in fact, into the Kalb, then in his appointment of \u02bfAbd al-\u02bfAz\u012bz as governor and second heir to the caliphate (after \u02bfAbd al-Malik).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7005", "words": "3893", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Klasova, Pamela", "title": "Lyall Armstrong, The Qu\u1e63\u1e63\u0101\u1e63 of Early Islam", "date": "2017", "keywords": "armstrong; chapter; islamic; material; qa\u1e63a\u1e63; qu\u1e63\u1e63\u0101\u1e63; q\u0101\u1e63\u1e63; sources", "summary": "S. Lowinger and J. Somogyi, Budapest, 1948, 226-51; Idem, \u201cThe Criticism of the Islamic Preacher,\u201d Die Welt des Islam II (1953), 215-31; Charles Pellat, \u201c\u1e32\u0101\u1e63\u1e63\u201d EI2, C. E. Bosworth, The Mediaeval Underworld (Leiden, 1976), 23-9; al-Najm Wad\u012b\u02bfa \u1e6c\u0101h\u0101, al-Qasas, wa-\u2019l-qu\u1e63\u1e63\u0101\u1e63 f\u012b al-adab al-isl\u0101m\u012b (Kuwait, 1972); Q. al-S\u0101marr\u0101\u02be\u012b \u201cKit\u0101b al-qu\u1e63\u1e63\u0101\u1e63 wa-\u2019l mudhakkir\u012bn, Majallat majma\u02bf al-lugha al-\u02bfarabiyya bi-Dimashq, 4 (50) 1975, 849-88; Jam\u0101l J\u016bda, \u201cal-Qa\u1e63a\u1e63 wa-l-qu\u1e63\u1e63\u0101\u1e63 f\u012b \u1e63adr al-Isl\u0101m: bayna al-w\u0101qi\u02bf al-t\u0101r\u012bkh\u012b wa-\u2019l-na\u1e93ra al-fiqh\u012bya,\u201d Dir\u0101s\u0101t t\u0101r\u012bkhiyya 33/34 (Damascus, 1989), 105-141; Khalil \u02bfAthamina: Al-Qasas: Its Emergence, Religious Origin and Its Socio-Political Impact on Early Society,\u201d Studia Islamica 76 (1992), 53-74; Maxim G. Romanov, \u201cComputational Reading of Arabic Biographical Collections with Special Reference to Preaching in the Sunn\u012b World (661-1300CE)\u201d (PhD diss., University of Michigan, 2013). Yet, the author cautions against considering them all as political figures, for some, including Bil\u0101l b. Sa\u02bfd, \u02bfAbd al-Ra\u1e25m\u0101n b. al-Q\u0101sim, or M\u016bs\u0101 b. Sayy\u0101r, remained politically disengaged, and dedicated themselves only to religious education.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7006", "words": "3287", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Gordon, Matthew S. ", "title": "Christophe Picard, La Mer des Califes: Une histoire de la M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e musulmane", "date": "2017", "keywords": "abbasid; century; des; islamic; mediterranean; muslim; picard; sea", "summary": "To the second part of the book\u2014\u201cLes strat\u00e9gies m\u00e9diterran\u00e9ennes des califes\u201d\u2014 falls discussion of the scale and complexity of Muslim maritime investment. Picard, again, argues for maritime concerns as essential to the course of Islamic imperial history from its very onset.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7008", "words": "2629", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Ulrich, Brian ", "title": "Chase Robinson, Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives: The First 1,000 Years ", "date": "2017", "keywords": "biographies; biography; civilization; islamic; robinson; world", "summary": "The next two biographies, those of \u02bfAbd al-Malik and Ibn al-Muqaffa\u02bf, establish aspects of Islam\u2019s imperial high culture while continuing to highlight the types of primary sources available to historians. Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 25 (2017): 204-209 Book Review The technique of using biography to make history accessible to newcomers is al", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7009", "words": "1120", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Adil, Sabahat F.", "title": "Mona Hassan, Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History", "date": "2017", "keywords": "caliphate; chapter; history", "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. Overall Lost Caliphate makes numerous noteworthy contributions to scholarship.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7010", "words": "3142", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Beers, Theodore S.", "title": "Abolfazl Khatibi, \u0100y\u0101 Firdaws\u012b Ma\u1e25m\u016bd-i Ghaznav\u012b r\u0101 hajv guft?", "date": "2017", "keywords": "firdaws\u012b; hajv\u2019n\u0101mah; khatibi; lines; ma\u1e25m\u016bd; sh\u0101hn\u0101mah", "summary": "Still other lines have metrical faults, or employ Arabic loanwords that occur nowhere else in Firdaws\u012b\u2019s \u0153uvre. There may be a few exceptions to this statement, depending on how one views the earliest works that quote lines from Firdaws\u012b, such as the anonymous chronicle Mujmal al-tav\u0101r\u012bkh va al-qi\u1e63a\u1e63 (begun in 520/1126), and indeed the Chah\u0101r maq\u0101lah.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7011", "words": "2797", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Mauder, Christian ", "title": "Thomas W\u00fcrtz, Islamische Theologie im 14. Jahrhundert. ", "date": "2017", "keywords": "kal\u0101m; shar\u1e25; taft\u0101z\u0101n\u012b; w\u00fcrtz", "summary": "Thereafter it turns, likewise briefly, to the teachings of Ibn S\u012bn\u0101 and Ab\u016b \u1e24\u0101mid al-Ghaz\u0101l\u012b inasmuch as these are relevant for al-Taft\u0101z\u0101n\u012b before shedding light on the Qur\u02bean commentaries of J\u0101r All\u0101h al-Zamakhshar\u012b and Fakhr al-D\u012bn al-R\u0101z\u012b that W\u00fcrtz uses in the remainder of his study to point to similarities and differences between al-Taft\u0101z\u0101n\u012b\u2019s writings and the tafs\u012br tradition of his period. In Shar\u1e25 al-Maq\u0101\u1e63id, however, which again offers a sophisticated and nuanced discussion of various theological views on the topic but pays also special attention to relevant Qur\u02beanic verses, al-Taft\u0101z\u0101n\u012b voices support not for the standard M\u0101tur\u012bd\u012b understanding, but for an Ash\u02bfar\u012b view that assumes positions of the neo-Jabriyya, while Tahdh\u012bb al-man\u1e6diq wa-l-kal\u0101m shows him embracing a mainstream Ash\u02bfar\u012b outlook and distancing himself from the neo-Jabriyya.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7012", "words": "1377", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Tolmacheva, Marina ", "title": "Anna Dolinina", "date": "2017", "keywords": "anna; dolinina; literature; russian; university", "summary": "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\u20142017) \u2022 227 Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 25 (2017) \u201cOriental Studies.\u201d There, she became fascinated with the Orient and developed an interest in Arabic literature.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7013", "words": "2341", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Donner , Fred M. ", "title": "G\u00fcnter L\u00fcling", "date": "2017", "keywords": "erlangen; g\u00fcnter; l\u00fcling; qur\u2019\u0101n; studies; work", "summary": "He was at first utilized as a support worker for the Navy, and then, * I am grateful to Friedrich L\u00fcling, G\u00fcnter L\u00fcling\u2019s son, for providing important information about his studies, and to the L\u00fcling family for their warm support. Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 25 (2017): 229-234 In Memoriam G\u00fcnter L\u00fcLinG (1928\u20142014)* Dr. G\u00fcnter L\u00fcling, author of a number of revisionist works on the Qur\u2019\u0101n and the history of Islam\u2019s origins, died on 10 September 2014, in Wasser- burg am Inn, Germany.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7014", "words": "740", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Borrut, Antoine ", "title": "Letter from the Editors", "date": "2016", "keywords": "mem", "summary": "We are pleased to present the new issue of al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 (UW). Turning to the later Persianate literary realm, Beers offers a close assessment of an unpublished manuscript text containing Letter from the Editors Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 24 (2016): i-ii (Photo of Antoine Borrut by Juliette Fradin Photography) the earliest documentation of the life and career of \u1e62\u0101\u02beib Tabr\u012bz\u012b (d. ca. 1087/1676).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7015", "words": "1888", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Bulliet, Richard W. ", "title": "Remarks by the Recipient of the 2015 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award ", "date": "2016", "keywords": "cards; columbia; history; middle", "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.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7016", "words": "7075", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Donner, Fred M. ", "title": "Arabic Fat\u1e25 as \u2018Conquest\u2019 and its Origin in Islamic Tradition", "date": "2016", "keywords": "arabian; arabic; conquest; fat\u1e25; god; islamic; meaning; oxford; press; qur\u02be\u0101n; university", "summary": "Mu\u1e25ammad ibn Jar\u012br al-\u1e6cabar\u012b, Tafs\u012br (30 vols., Cairo: al-Matba\u02bfa al-mayman\u012bya, 1321/1903), XXVI, 42-5. 26. Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 24 (2016): 1-14 Scholarship on the rise of Islam routinely translates the Arabic word fat\u1e25 (pl. fut\u016b\u1e25),1 when used in the context of the first expansion of the Believers\u2019 movement, as \u201cconquest.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7017", "words": "14437", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "71", "author": "Anthony, Sean W. ", "title": "Was Ibn W\u0101\u1e0di\u1e25 al-Ya\u02bfq\u016bb\u012b a Shi\u02bfite Historian? The State of the Question*", "date": "2016", "keywords": "ab\u016b; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; a\u1e25mad; bakr; beirut; chronicle; d\u0101r al; history; ibn; ibn al; islamic; kit\u0101b; leiden; mu\u1e25ammad; mu\u1e25ammad al; prophet; shi\u02bfite; t\u0101r\u012bkh; vols; wus\u1e6d\u0101; w\u0101\u1e0di\u1e25; w\u0101\u1e0di\u1e25 al; ya\u02bfq\u016bb\u012b; \u02bfabd al; \u02bfal\u012b", "summary": "al-Intiq\u0101\u02be f\u012b fa\u1e0d\u0101\u02beil al-thal\u0101tha al-a\u02beimma al-fuqah\u0101\u02be. Edited by \u02bfAbd al-Fatt\u0101\u1e25 Ab\u016b Ghudda. Edited by Jal\u0101l al-D\u012bn al-\u1e24usayn\u012b al-Armaw\u012b al-Mu\u1e25addith.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7018", "words": "37184", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Melvin-Koushki, Matthew", "title": "Of Islamic Grammatology: Ibn Turka\u2019s Lettrist Metaphysics of Light*", "date": "2016", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; arabic; book; cambridge; century; context; culture; derrida; doctrine; d\u012bn; existence; form; god; grammatology; history; ibn al; ibn turka; intellectual; iran; islamic; islamicate; knowledge; koushki; koushki al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; letters; lettrist; light; magic; mamluk; matthew; melvin; metaphysics; new; number; occult; ottoman; pen; period; persian; philosophy; place; quest; safavid; scholars; science; speech; spoken; tashk\u012bk al; theory; time; timurid; tradition; world; writing; written; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u02bfal\u012b; \u02bfilm al", "summary": "Under the rubric of \u02bfilm al-adab Ibn al-Akf\u0101n\u012b gives equal treatment to speech and writing as vehicles of communication, with emphasis on poetry and rhetoric, treating sequentially of lugha, ta\u1e63r\u012bf, ma\u02bf\u0101n\u012b, bay\u0101n, bad\u012b\u02bf,\u02bfar\u016b\u1e0d, qaw\u0101f\u012b, na\u1e25w, qaw\u0101n\u012bn al-kit\u0101ba, qaw\u0101n\u012bn al-qir\u0101\u02bea and man\u1e6diq (Irsh\u0101d al-Q\u0101\u1e63id, 22-29). 21. The letter is the enlightening elixir (al-iks\u012br al-mun\u012br); were a drop of it to strike the vaults of dark bodies that fill the realms of contingency (al-\u02bfaw\u0101lim al-imk\u0101niyya), it would forthwith dispel their intrinsic darkness and transform their substance from base to noble, rendering those gross bodies pure light to illumine the dark realms of matter and becoming.108 As Ibn Turka argues, in sum, every level of the letter is a construct of eternally emanated divine light, both ontologically and epistemologically\u2014even speech.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7019", "words": "11878", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "74", "author": "Beers, Theodore S.", "title": "Ta\u1e95kirah-i Khayr al-bay\u0101n: The Earliest Source on the Career and Poetry of \u1e62\u0101\u02beib Tabr\u012bz\u012b (d. ca. 1087/1676)", "date": "2016", "keywords": "bay\u0101n; edition; fol; gulch\u012bn; khayr al; ma\u02bf\u0101n\u012b; persian; poets; sh\u0101h; ta\u1e95kirah; tehran; verses; vols; \u1e25usayn; \u1e63\u0101\u02beib", "summary": "Due to expense Ta!kirah-i Khayr al-bay\u0101n: The Earliest Source on the Career and Poetry of \u1e62\u0101#ib Tabr\u012bz\u012b (d. ca. 1087/1676) theodoRe S. BeeRS University of Chicago (tbeers@uchicago.edu) 115 \u2022 theodoRe S. BeeRS Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 24 (2016) Both the Khayr al-bay\u0101n, and MS Or. 3397 in particular, have been known for some time. Theodore S. Beers, \u201cThe Biography of Vahshi B\u0101fqi (d. 991/1583) and the Tazkera Tradition,\u201d Journal of Persianate Studies 8 (2015): 219\u201320. 132 \u2022 theodoRe S. BeeRS Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 24 (2016) Appendix: Khayr al-baya\u0304n MS Or. 3379 Fig. 1: Page 374a from Khayr al-bay\u0101n MS Or. 3379.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7021", "words": "3126", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "74", "author": "Brown, Jonathan ", "title": "A Man for All Seasons: Ibn \u02bfUqda and Crossing Sectarian Boundaries in the 4th/10th Century", "date": "2016", "keywords": "beirut; d\u0101r; d\u012bn; ibn; sunni; vols; \u02bfuqda; \u1e25ad\u012bth", "summary": "Another accusation was that he brought \u1e25ad\u012bth notebooks of highly dubious authenticity into Kufa and attributed them to Kufan teachers.6 These are noteworthy criticisms, but other Sunnis before and after Ibn \u02bfUqda (such as al-\u1e24\u0101kim al-Nays\u0101b\u016br\u012b, d. 405/1014) were tarnished with comparably barbed accusations, and they remained none the worse for wear. cit.), Q\u0101\u1e0d\u012b \u02bfIy\u0101\u1e0d (d. 544/1149), Kit\u0101b al-Shif\u0101 (Beirut: D\u0101r Ibn \u1e24azm, 2002), 177 (it is th\u0101bit); Jal\u0101l al-D\u012bn al-Suy\u016b\u1e6d\u012b (d. 911/1505), al-La\u02be\u0101l\u012b\u02be al-ma\u1e63n\u016b\u02bfa f\u012b al-a\u1e25\u0101d\u012bth al-maw\u1e0d\u016b\u02bfa, ed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7022", "words": "2094", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Mauder, Christian ; Markiewicz, Christopher ", "title": "A New Source on the Social Gatherings (majalis) of the Mamluk Sultan Q\u0101n\u1e63awh al-Ghawr\u012b", "date": "2016", "keywords": "al-\u02bfuq\u016bd; anonymous; fol; ghawr\u012b; mamluk; sultan", "summary": "early 10th/16th c.), and al-Kawkab al-durr\u012b f\u012b mas\u0101\u02beil al-Ghawr\u012b of unknown authorship.2 Both texts include the purported proceedings of al-Ghawr\u012b\u2019s maj\u0101lis and focus primarily on 1. His place in literature and learning (three books written under his patronage),\u201d in Actes du xxe Congr\u00e8s International des Orientalistes, Bruxelles 5-10 Septembre 1938, Leuven 1940, 321-322. 2. \u02bfAzz\u0101m, \u02bfAbd al-Wahh\u0101b (ed.), Maj\u0101lis al-sul\u1e6d\u0101n al-Ghawr\u012b, Cairo 1941. learned discussions taken up at these gath- erings pertaining to law, Quranic exegesis, history, literature, theology, philosophy and the natural sciences, among others.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7023", "words": "1314", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "MacMaster, Thomas", "title": "Sessions on Slavery The International Medieval Congress ", "date": "2016", "keywords": "paper; slavery; slaves; university; world", "summary": "At the 2015 IMC, the number of papers treating slavery directly seemed to have reached a peak but, as usual in such a large conference, some conflicted directly with each other. The response to the call for papers was unprecedented: the effort resulted in the organization of ten panels on the study of slavery in the medieval world.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7024", "words": "3116", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Heidemann, Stefan", "title": "Regional and Transregional Elites: Connecting the Early Islamic Empire", "date": "2016", "keywords": "conference; elites; empire; heidemann; military; province; sources", "summary": "Regional elites largely were confined to specific provinces, and it was in these regions where their sphere of influence was most visible. However, there were occasions where regional elites evolved into transregional elites, and vice versa, as in the case of the Aghlabids, whose founder was a (transregional)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7025", "words": "6878", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Stone McNeece, Lucy ", "title": "A Moveable Feast: \u201cFood as a Cultural Signifier\u201d", "date": "2016", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; american; arabic; culture; european; feast; food; paper; quince; signifier; university; wine; wus\u1e6d\u0101", "summary": "Ms. Willhelm affirmed that food aid has both a colonial and postcolonial history. In the 20th century industrialized nations have sought to project their influence by means of humanitarian assistance such as food aid and this has included corporate as well as philanthropic donors.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7026", "words": "3901", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Borrut, Antoine", "title": "Denis Genequand and Christian Julien Robin (eds.), Les Jafnides: des rois arabes au service de Byzance ", "date": "2016", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; century; christian; ghass\u0101n; jafnids; les; robin; roman; wus\u1e6d\u0101", "summary": "Greg Fisher (ed.), Arabs and Empire Before Islam (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015); Peter Webb, Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016); Aziz al-Azmeh, The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity: All\u0101h and his People (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), on which, see Webb\u2019s review in Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 23 (2015), 149-53; Isabel Toral-Niehoff, Al-\u1e24\u012bra. Eine arabische Kulturmetropole im sp\u00e4tantiken Kontext (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2014), and reviewed by Michael Bonner in this issue of Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101, 181-186.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7027", "words": "3110", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Bonner, Michael ", "title": "Isabel Toral-Niehof, Al-\u1e24\u012bra, Eine arabische Kulturmetropole im sp\u00e4tantiken Kontext", "date": "2016", "keywords": "arabic; book; century; christian; islamic; niehoff; \u1e25\u012bra", "summary": "Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 24 (2016) 184 \u2022 Michael BonneR The chapter concludes by asking whether a truly Christian Arabic poetry existed in al-\u1e24\u012bra; the answer to this question is no, not by any strict definition of the term. The conversion of al-Nu\u2018m\u0101n III b. al-Mundhir took place (largely through the machinations of \u2018Ad\u012b b. Zayd), around a decade before his dethronement and the final destruction of the Lakhmid state.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7028", "words": "3382", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Toral-Niehof, Isabel ", "title": "Thomas Bauer, Die Kultur der Ambiguit\u00e4t: Eine andere Geschichte des Islams ", "date": "2016", "keywords": "ambiguity; bauer; book; chapter; islam; islamic", "summary": "Bauer posits a dichotomy between an \u2018ambiguity-tolerant\u2019 pre-modern Islam and an \u2018ambiguity-intolerant\u2019 West. (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\u2019s almost complete neglect of female sexuality and gender in a chapter addressing sexuality in Islam is also hardly comprehensible.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7029", "words": "1508", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Friedman, Rachel Anne", "title": "Tariq Jafer, Raz\u012b: Master of Qur\u02beanic Interpretation and Theological Reasoning", "date": "2016", "keywords": "jaffer; r\u0101z\u012b; thought", "summary": "Al-R\u0101z\u012b was not the first thinker to make many of the important intellectual moves that Jaffer examines, and the book provides some background on earlier thinkers such as al-Ghaz\u0101l\u012b (d. 505/1111), accounting for the ways in which al-R\u0101z\u012b responded to and incorporated his predecessors\u2019 insights into his thought. Tariq Jaffer\u2019s new book stands on the shoulders of long-standing work by the likes of Ignaz Goldziher and Josef van Ess, as well as scholars who have recently written on al-R\u0101z\u012b including Ayman Shihadeh and Michel Lagarde.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7030", "words": "3125", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Troadec, Anne", "title": "Amina Elbendary, Crowds and Sultans: Urban Protest in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria ", "date": "2016", "keywords": "author; century; chapter; elbendary; mamluk; period; protest", "summary": "The works of such authors as Ibn Ab\u012b al-Sur\u016br al-Bakr\u012b (d. ca. 1619), al-Damurd\u0101sh\u012b (d. 1775), and al-Jabart\u012b (d. 1825), suggest a strong connection between the Egyptian historians of the late Mamluk period and the regime, which supports T. Khalidi\u2019s thesis about \u201csiy\u0101sa-oriented historiography.\u201d The author examines at length one case of the ascension of a commoner, that of Ab\u016b al-Khayr al-Na\u1e25\u1e25\u0101s (d. 1459), who has already been studied by R. Mortel.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7031", "words": "2482", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Mauder, Christian", "title": "Petrus Martyr Anglerius, Legatio Babylonica. Edition, \u00dcbersetzung und Kommentar von Hans Heinrich Todt", "date": "2016", "keywords": "mamluk; martyr; petrus; todt", "summary": "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. After his return from his diplomatic embassy to Egypt, Petrus Martyr received several promotions, including that to the post of Prior of Granada in 1503.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7032", "words": "1459", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Eltantawi , Sarah ", "title": "Shahab Ahmed", "date": "2016", "keywords": "ahmed; islam; shahab", "summary": "\u201cMost doctoral students start out as reformers...\u201d In Memoriam: Shahab Ahmed Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 24 (2016): 210 The comment typified Shahab in several respects. Shahab once asked me to articulate exactly why I was pursuing a Ph.D. in Islamic studies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7033", "words": "764", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Borrut, Antoine", "title": "Letter from the Editors", "date": "2015", "keywords": "middle", "summary": "This new issue of al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 (UW) marks a turning point. Letter from the Editors Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 23 (2015): i-ii (Photo of Antoine Borrut by Juliette Fradin Photography)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7034", "words": "2345", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "72", "author": "Crone, Patricia", "title": "Remarks by the Recipient of the 2014 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award ", "date": "2015", "keywords": "battle; book; thought", "summary": "MEM Awards Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 23 (2015): iii-vi When I discussed with Matthew what I should talk about, he said he\u2019d 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. After Meccan Trade, or at the same time (both this and other books took a long time to reach print), I published God\u2019s Caliph with Martin Hinds.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7035", "words": "1831", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Humphreys, R. Stephen ", "title": "\u201cThe Shape of a Career\u201d Remarks by the Recipient of the 2013 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award ", "date": "2015", "keywords": "east; history; islamic; middle", "summary": "MEM Awards Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 23 (2015): vii-x I must begin by expressing my thanks to the officers and board of Middle East Medievalists for bestowing on me the honor of a Lifetime Achievement Award. It comes from a group of colleagues whose work I greatly admire, and who have been at the heart of the extraordinary progress in studies on the medieval Middle East over the past two decades.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7036", "words": "37353", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "77", "author": "Cook, Michael ", "title": "Mu\u1e25ammad\u2019s Deputies in Medina", "date": "2015", "keywords": "ab\u016b; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; barr; deputies; deputy; expedition; hish\u0101m; ibn ab\u012b; ibn al; ibn hish\u0101m; ibn is\u1e25\u0101q; ibn maslama; ibn sa\u02bfd; ibn \u02bfabd; ibn \u02bfurfu\u1e6da; ibn \u1e25ab\u012bb; ibn \u1e25azm; ist\u012b\u02bf\u0101b; khal\u012bfa; makt\u016bm; medina; mu\u1e25ammad al; mu\u1e25ammad ibn; names; ruhm al; sachau; sib\u0101\u02bf ibn; sources; ta\u02ber\u012bkh al; umm; wus\u1e6d\u0101; w\u0101qid\u012b; zayd ibn; \u02bfabd al; \u02bfabdall\u0101h al; \u02bfabdall\u0101h ibn; \u02bfuthm\u0101n ibn; \u1e6dabaq\u0101t", "summary": "Dh\u016b \u02bel-Qa\u02bfda 7 \u02bfUmrat al-qa\u1e0diyya62 \u02bfUwayf ibn al-A\u1e0dba\u1e6d al-Du\u02beal\u012b SS 3-4:370.12 25. Khal\u012bfa: \u02bfUwayf ibn al-A\u1e0dba\u1e6d al-Du\u02beal\u012b W\u0101qid\u012b: Ibn Hish\u0101m: 24 Khal\u012bfa: 22 Zayd ibn \u1e24\u0101ritha W\u0101qid\u012b: 3, 17 Ibn Hish\u0101m: 3 Khal\u012bfa:", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7037", "words": "11344", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Melchert, Christopher", "title": "M\u0101ward\u012b\u2019s Legal Thinking", "date": "2015", "keywords": "ab\u016b; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; beirut; d\u0101r al; example; hadith; ibn; ibn al; islamic; law; mu\u1e25ammad; m\u0101ward\u012b; prayer; ritual; school; studies; virgin; vols; waqf; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u02bfabd al; \u1e25\u0101w\u012b", "summary": "I have elsewhere reviewed his training in Sh\u0101fi\u02bfi law and his position within the school.2 In modern times, M\u0101ward\u012b has become most famous for al-A\u1e25k\u0101m al-sul\u1e6d\u0101n\u012byah.3 He is most famous today for al-A\u1e25k\u0101m al-sul\u1e6d\u0101n\u012byah, a review of the law as it affects or requires the action of the caliph.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7039", "words": "23959", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Conrad, Lawrence I.", "title": "Ibn A\u02bftham and His History ", "date": "2015", "keywords": "ab\u016b; account; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; arabic; author; a\u02bftham al; book; caliphate; century; conrad; date; death; end; fact; fut\u016b\u1e25; fut\u016b\u1e25 al; history; ibid; ibn al; ibn a\u02bftham; isn\u0101ds; kit\u0101b al; lawrence; material; mu\u1e25ammad; persian; point; sh\u012b\u02bf\u012b; sources; text; viii; work; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u02bfal\u012b", "summary": "In the main body of the Kit\u0101b al-fut\u016b\u1e25 (i.e. before the beginning of the dhayl), one of al-Mans\u016br\u2019s daughters tells a tale of how her grandmother, pregnant with the future caliph, dreamed that a lion came forth from her and received the homage of all the other predatory beasts.118 As it happens, the immediate informant for this story is al-\u1e24asan ibn al-\u1e24ub\u0101b al-Muqri\u02be al-Baghd\u0101d\u012b, who died in Baghd\u0101d in 301/914.119 See al-Kha\u1e6d\u012bb al-Baghd\u0101d\u012b (d. 463/1071), Ta\u02ber\u012bkh Baghd\u0101d (Cairo: Maktabat al-Kh\u0101nj\u012b, 1349/1931), VIII, 301:4-302:2, no. 3813.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7040", "words": "935", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Smarandache, Bogdan C. ", "title": "Can Doctoral Dissertations Disappear? A Look at Ibrahim al\u2010Hafsi\u2019s \u201cCorrespondance officielle et prive\u0301e d\u2019al\u2010Qa\u0304d\u0323i\u0304 al\u2010Fa\u0304d\u0323il\u201d and its Prospects in a Digital Age ", "date": "2015", "keywords": "al\u2010f\u0101\u1e0dil; al\u2010q\u0101\u1e0d\u012b; dissertation", "summary": "Dr. al-Hafsi undertook the gargantuan effort of collecting and collating al-Q\u0101\u1e0d\u012b\u2019s works. Exceeding the proposed aims of his dissertation, Dr. al-Hafsi generously provides a biography of al\u2010Q\u0101\u1e0d\u012b al\u2010F\u0101\u1e0dil\u2019s life, analyzes his political thought in the context of the jih\u0101d al-Ifranj (jih\u0101d against the Franks), and explores his social network.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7041", "words": "2433", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Antrim, Zayde ", "title": "Stephennie Mulder, The Shrines of the \u02bfAlids in Medieval Syria", "date": "2015", "keywords": "book; medieval; mulder; shrines; syria", "summary": "Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 23 (2015): 129-133 Book Review By surveying and interpreting major \u02bfAlid shrines in Syria from the eleventh century to today, Stephennie Mulder has produced a timely work of great value and insight. Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 23 (2015) Stephennie Mulder\u2019s The Shrines of the \u02bfAlids in Medieval Syria \u2022 131 by the different sects.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7042", "words": "3435", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Donner, Fred M. ", "title": "Robert Hoyland, In God\u2019s Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire ", "date": "2015", "keywords": "arab; book; conquests; god; hoyland; islamic; path; sources", "summary": "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 \u201cIslamicize\u201d the conquest movement, projecting their later understandings back to the origins period of the community.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7043", "words": "512", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Melchert, Christopher ", "title": "\u02bfAbd al-Ra\u1e25m\u0101n Ma\u1e25j\u016bb\u012b, Al-Mu\u1e63\u1e6dala\u1e25 al-\u1e25ad\u012bth\u012b min khil\u0101l Kit\u0101b al-Jar\u1e25 wa-al-ta\u02bfd\u012bl li-Ibn Ab\u012b \u1e24\u0101tim al-R\u0101z\u012b", "date": "2015", "keywords": "ibn", "summary": "Ba\u1e25th li-nayl al-dukt\u016br\u0101h f\u012b al-dir\u0101s\u0101t al-isl\u0101m\u012byah (Beirut: D\u0101r Ibn H\u0323azm, 1432/2011), 474 pages. It is a highly systematic survey of hadith terminology in Ibn Ab\u012b \u1e24\u0101tim\u2019s huge biographical dictionary, al-Jar\u1e25 wa-al- ta\u02bfd\u012bl.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7044", "words": "2052", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Vacca, Alison M. ", "title": "Seta Dadoyan, The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World: Paradigms of Interaction, Seventh to Fourteenth Centuries. ", "date": "2015", "keywords": "armenian; dadoyan; history; islamic", "summary": "She pulls in references to comparable Ayy\u016bbid-, Mongol-, Safavid-, and Ottoman-era treaties and concludes: \u201cit can be argued that irrespicive [sic] of their authenticity\u2014 which cannot be established anyway\u2014in medieval Armenian histories the tradition of oaths should be studied as a single broad aspect of Islamic-Armenian relations. Samu\u0113l Anec\u2018i\u2019s text actually covers the Arab conquest of Dab\u012bl/Dwin very briefly and does not mention \u1e24ab\u012bb b. Maslama at all.13 Dadoyan\u2019s footnote for Samu\u0113l Anec\u2018i\u2019s rendition of the treaty points the reader not to the Hawak\u2018munk\u2018 itself, but to a passage from a modern study of Armenian history that does not mention Samu\u0113l at all.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7045", "words": "459", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Martin Varisco, Daniel ", "title": "\u1e6caha \u1e24usayn \u02bfAwa\u1e0d Hudayl, Tamarrud\u0101t al-qab\u012bla f\u012b \u02bfa\u1e63r al-dawla al-Ras\u016bl\u012bya wa-atharh\u0101 f\u012b al-\u1e25ay\u0101t al-\u02bf\u0101mma f\u012b al-Yaman", "date": "2015", "keywords": "tribes", "summary": "A genealogical chart of the descendants of \u02bfAl\u012b ibn Mu\u1e25ammad ibn H\u0101r\u016bn (known as al-Ras\u016bl) is provided, \u1e6caha \u1e24usayn \u02bfAwa\u1e0d Hudayl, Tamarrud\u0101t al-qab\u012bla f\u012b \u02bfa\u1e63r al-dawla al-Ras\u016bl\u012bya wa-atharh\u0101 f\u012b al-\u1e25ay\u0101t al-\u02bf\u0101mma f\u012b al-Yaman (626-858 H) Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 23 (2015): 147-148 Book Review This important volume is based on a doctoral dissertation submitted in 2004 to the Department of History at Aden University.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7046", "words": "2423", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Webb, Peter ", "title": "Aziz al-Azmeh, The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity: All\u0101h and His People", "date": "2015", "keywords": "arabs; azmeh; emergence; islam; pre", "summary": "One reference in the reconstituted \u2018source\u2019 of the second/eighth Ibn Is\u1e25\u0101q\u2019s biography of Muhammad is quoted as evidence for the \u2018fact\u2019 that pre-Islamic Arabs had a habit of rubbing their bodies on idols (226). It is directed against the formerly hyper-critical approach to early Islam adopted by various scholars, but in seeking to redress earlier cynicism, al-Azmeh swings far towards a form of positivism whereby writers of Arabic literary sources between the second/ eighth and fourth/tenth centuries are lauded as \u201cantiquarians\u201d (The Arabs in Islam 43, 62; The Emergence of Islam 173) with \u201cscrupulous\u201d intentions to accurately record pre-Islamic facts.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7047", "words": "2945", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Yarbrough, Luke", "title": "J\u0101sim Mu\u1e25ammad Ka\u1e93im, Ahl al-dhimmah f\u012b al-mujtama\u02bf al-Baghd\u0101d\u012b f\u012b al-\u02bfahdayn al-Buwayh\u012b wa-al-Salj\u016bq\u012b ", "date": "2015", "keywords": "ahl; author; baghdad; dhimmah; muslims; non; sources", "summary": "Luke Yarbrough Department of History Saint Louis University (lyarbro5@slu.edu) mailto:lyarbro5%40slu.edu Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 23 (2015) 155 \u2022 Luke Yarbrough al-th\u0101n\u012b wa-al-\u02bfa\u1e63r al-Ayy\u016bb\u012b (Cairo, 1982 \u2022\u2002Idem, Ahl al-dhimmah f\u012b Mi\u1e63r f\u012b al-\u02bfa\u1e63r al-F\u0101\u1e6dim\u012b al-awwal (Cairo, 1995 \u2022\u2002Tawf\u012bq Sul\u1e6d\u0101n Y\u016bzbak\u012b, T\u0101r\u012bkh ahl al-dhimmah f\u012b al-\u02bfIr\u0101q, 12\u2013247 (Riyadh, 1983) \u2022\u2002Shaf\u012bq Yam\u016bt, Ahl al-dhimmah f\u012b mukhtalif a\u1e6dw\u0101rihim wa-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016brihim (Beirut, 1991) \u2022\u2002Sayyidah Ism\u0101\u02bf\u012bl K\u0101shif, Mi\u1e63r al-isl\u0101miyyah wa-ahl al-dhimmah (Cairo, 1993) \u2022\u2002\u1e24asan al-Mimm\u012b, Ahl al-dhimmah f\u012b al-\u1e25a\u1e0d\u0101rah al-isl\u0101miyyah (Beirut, 1998) (Cairo, 2000) \u2022\u2002Ya\u1e25y\u0101 A\u1e25mad \u02bfAbd al-H\u0101d\u012b \u1e24usayn, Ahl al-dhimmah f\u012b al-\u02bfIr\u0101q f\u012b al-\u02bfa\u1e63r al-\u02bfAbb\u0101s\u012b: al-fatrah al-Salj\u016bqiyyah nam\u016bdhajan (447\u2013590/1055\u20131194) (Irbid, 2004) \u2022\u2002\u1e24\u0101mid Mu\u1e25ammad al-H\u0101d\u012b Shar\u012bf, A\u1e25w\u0101l ghayr al-muslim\u012bn f\u012b bil\u0101d al-Sh\u0101m \u1e25att\u0101 nih\u0101yat al-\u02bfa\u1e63r al-Umaw\u012b (Amman, 2007) \u2022\u2002Wasan \u1e24usayn Mu\u1e25aym\u012bd Ghurayr\u012b, Ahl al-dhimmah f\u012b al-\u02bfa\u1e63r al-\u02bfAbb\u0101s\u012b: dir\u0101sah f\u012b aw\u1e0d\u0101\u02bfihim al-ijtim\u0101\u02bfiyyah wa-al-iqti\u1e63adiyyah (Baghdad, 2009) \u2022\u2002Ban\u0101z Ism\u0101\u02bf\u012bl \u02bfAd\u016b, Ahl al-dhimma f\u012b bil\u0101d al-Kurd f\u012b al-\u02bfa\u1e63r al-\u02bfAbb\u0101s\u012b, 132\u2013447/749\u20131055: dir\u0101sah ta\u02ber\u012bkhiyyah ta\u1e25l\u012bliyyah (Irbil, 2011) \u2022\u2002Mu\u1e25ammad al-Am\u012bn Wuld \u0100n, Ahl al-dhimmah bi-al-Andalus f\u012b \u1e93ill al-dawlah al-Umawiyyah, 138\u2013422/755\u2013 1031 (Damascus, 2011) \u2022\u2002\u02bfAl\u012b Fulay\u1e25 \u02bfAbdall\u0101h al-\u1e62umaydi\u02bf\u012b, Ahl al-dhimmah f\u012b al-Maghrib al-Aq\u1e63\u0101 min al-fat\u1e25 al-Isl\u0101m\u012b \u1e25att\u0101 nih\u0101yat dawlat al-Muwa\u1e25\u1e25id\u012bn (Amman, 2014) We may conclude this brief, inexhaustive survey with a 2005 Zagazig University dissertation \u2014 fittingly, by one of Q\u0101sim\u2019s students\u2014 Zaynab \u02bfAbdall\u0101h A\u1e25mad Kar\u012br\u2019s Ahl al-dhimma f\u012b al-\u02bfahd al-\u1e24af\u1e63\u012b (626- 982/1228\u20131574).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7048", "words": "909", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Bacharach, Jere L. ", "title": "Irene \u201cRenie\u201d A. Bierman-McKinney", "date": "2015", "keywords": "art; renie; university", "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.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7049", "words": "6573", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Azad , Arezou ", "title": "Clifford Edmund Bosworth", "date": "2015", "keywords": "arabic; bosworth; c.e; clifford; edinburgh; edmund; edmund bosworth; history; iran; islamic; medieval; new; press; sheffield; studies; university; years", "summary": "Ian R. Netton, \u201cAn Appreciation of the Life of Professor Clifford Edmund Bosworth,\u201d posted In Memoriam: Clifford Edmund Bosworth Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 23 (2015): 168 hundreds of articles, twenty monographs and edited volumes, hundreds of confer- ence papers, and editorial productions of multi-tome compendia such as the Ency- clopaedia of Islam (second edition), the British Institute of Persian Studies journal (IRAN) for more than 40 years\u2014\u201csurely a record in journal editorship!\u201d by his own account4\u2014the 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\u2014myself included (I had the pleasure of Edmund\u2019s acquaint- ance and mentorship in the last decade of his life). \u201cLike Edmund Bosworth I have always eschewed the decent obscurity of Latin,\u201d he declares.27 Edmund\u2019s penchant for the underworld might also be reflected in his fine collection of Penguin original crime fiction editions.28 23.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7050", "words": "17999", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "76", "author": "O\u2019Neal, Michael", "title": "Clifford Edmund Bosworth: An Updated Bibliography", "date": "2015", "keywords": "ab\u016b; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; arabic; art; arts; asia; a\u1e25mad; bosworth; bull; c.e; cambridge; central; century; clifford; d\u012bn; east; edmund; eds; ei2; eir; historical; history; ibn; iii; iran; islamic; item; journal; jras; jss; leiden; london; medieval; memoriam; middle; minorsky; mu\u1e25ammad; new; period; persian; publ; reprinted; reviews; ser; society; studies; university; vii; vol; world; wus\u1e6d\u0101; york", "summary": "\u1e24usayn \u02bfAl\u012b al-Lab\u016bd\u012b, al-Usar al-\u1e25\u0101kima fi \u2019l-Isl\u0101m. A journal devoted to the study of handwritten materials of the Middle East, I, Leiden 1986, in JSS, XXXIII/2 (1988), 314\u201317; Wid\u0101d al-Q\u0101\u1e0d\u012b, Bishr b. Abi \u2019l-Kub\u0101r al-Balaw\u012b, num\u016bdhaj min al-nathr al-fann\u012b al-mubakkir fi \u2019l-Yaman, Beirut 1405/1985, in JSS, XXXIII/2 (1988), 318\u201319; M.H. Burgoyne, with D.S. Richards, Mamluk Jerusalem.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7051", "words": "4415", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "71", "author": "Van Bladel, Kevin", "title": "\u201cWith All Good Wishes\u201d: Remembering Patricia Crone ", "date": "2015", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; crone; end; life; patricia; time; wus\u1e6d\u0101", "summary": "For a bibliography of Patricia Crone\u2019s work, please see Islamic Cultures, Islamic Contexts: Essays in Honor of Professor Patricia Crone, edited by B. Sadeghi, A.Q. Ahmed, A. Silverstein, and R. Hoyland (Leiden: Brill, 2015), xxiv-xxix. In Memoriam: Patricia Crone Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 23 (2015): 224 possessed another very rare characteristic: Patricia was genuinely humble and modest, despite her unusual gifts.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7052", "words": "966", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Cooperson, Michael ", "title": "Wolfhart P. Heinrichs", "date": "2015", "keywords": "arabic; wolfhart", "summary": "In Memoriam Wolfhart P. heinrichs (1941-2014)* Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 23 (2015): 227-229 On January 23, 2014, we lost a teacher, a mentor, and a friend. In Memoriam: Wolfhart P. Heinrichs Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 23 (2015): 228 married Alma Giese, a fellow scholar of Arabic and Islam, and an accomplished translator into German.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-7053", "words": "2944", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Abdulfattah, Iman ", "title": "George T. Scanlon", "date": "2015", "keywords": "auc; egypt; fustat; george; scanlon; university", "summary": "In Memoriam GeorGe T. Scanlon (1925-2014)* Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 23 (2015): 230-236 Born in Philadelphia on April 23, 1925, George T. Scanlon was more than just a scholar of Islamic art and architecture; he was a true Renais- sance man who paved the way in areas as wide-ranging as salvage archaeology and scholarly writing. Perhaps little-known outside of certain circles is that Scanlon anonymously endowed the annual George Antonius Memorial lecture at the Middle East Centre of St Antony\u2019s College, now in its 40th year; he also gave generously over the years to key institutions that supported the study of the Middle East, such as The American University in Beirut and Middle East In Memoriam: George T. Scanlon Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 23 (2015): 235 Medievalists.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8287", "words": "25938", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Antrim, Zayde", "title": "Qamarayn: The Erotics of Sameness in the 1001 Nights", "date": "2020", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; arabic; beauty; bnf arabe; bodies; body; budur; bulaq; calcutta; century; characters; desire; difference; erotics; fifteenth; fol; gender; king; literature; mahdi; manuscript; new; nights; press; qamar al; sameness; sex; stories; story; terms; university; women; wus\u1e6d\u0101; zaman", "summary": "(Cairo: al-Ma\u1e6dba\u02bfa al-Kubr\u0101 bi-B\u016bl\u0101q, 1251/1835) [hereafter Calcutta II]; and \u02bfAbd al-Ra\u1e25m\u0101n al-\u1e62afat\u012b al-Sharq\u0101w\u012b, ed.,", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8407", "words": "1130", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Borrut, Antoine; Gordon, Matthew", "title": "Letter from the Editors", "date": "2021", "keywords": "islamic; journal; university", "summary": "Garnier\u2019s study of gluttony as a narrative device in the Sindbad story cycle is one of six articles in our latest special dossier, \u201cIslamic History Broadly Conceived: A Tribute to Michael Cook and the Holberg Seminar.\u201d This issue also inaugurates a feature new to UW: a section devoted to teaching, which contains a short comment by Jo Van Steenbergen (Ghent University) on his new textbook, A History of the Islamic World, 600\u20131800 (Routledge, 2021), and a description by Hannah Barker (Arizona State University) of her new and exciting online resource, Teaching Medieval Slavery and Captivity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8408", "words": "2827", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Fierro, Maribel", "title": "Remarks by the Recipient of the 2019 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award Given at the Annual Meeting of Middle East Medievalists (New Orleans, 14 November 2019)", "date": "2021", "keywords": "andalus; scholars; spain; study; time", "summary": "Mar\u00eda Luisa \u00c1vila, initially trained as a mathematician, has spent most of her academic life building an extremely useful online resource, the Prosopography of the Scholars of al-Andalus, which now Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 28 (2020) Remarks by the Recipient of the 2019 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award \u2022 vi comprises more than 11,000 entries. I still remember the computer she was using in 1985 when she wrote her PhD dissertation on demographics in al-Andalus through an analysis of the biographies of scholars.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8409", "words": "16039", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Treadwell, Luke", "title": "Who Compiled and Edited the Mashhad Miscellany?", "date": "2020", "keywords": "ab\u016b; ab\u016b dulaf; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; b. al; book; buld\u0101n; dulaf; dulaf al; editors; faq\u012bh; ibn al; ibn fa\u1e0dl\u0101n; islamic; kit\u0101b; kit\u0101b al; manuscript; mashhad; mashhad miscellany; miscellany; passages; ris\u0101la; section; text; treadwell; turks; version; wus\u1e6d\u0101", "summary": "Al-Tha\u02bf\u0101lib\u012b notes that Bad\u012b\u02bf al-Zam\u0101n put some of Ab\u016b Dulaf\u2019s poetry into the mouth of the protagonist of his maq\u0101ma, Ab\u016b al-Fat\u1e25 al-Iskandar\u012b. Some years later, the q\u0101\u1e0d\u012b Ab\u016b al-\u02bfAnbas al-\u1e62aymar\u012b (d. 275/888), perhaps taking his cue from al-J\u0101\u1e25i\u1e93, wrote several now lost treatises on behaviors regarded as aberrant, including pimping, prostitution, masturbation, and pederasty, that were listed by Ibn al-Nad\u012bm.75 This zany literary output earned al-\u1e62aymar\u012b the posthumous honor of having a maq\u0101ma written in his name by Bad\u012b\u02bf al-Zam\u0101n al-Hamadh\u0101n\u012b.76 Ab\u016b Dulaf \u2019s contribution to the field was a long poem, the Qas\u012bda s\u0101s\u0101niyya, which he wrote for al-\u1e62\u0101\u1e25ib b. \u02bfAbb\u0101d.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8410", "words": "20256", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "79", "author": "Bruning, Jelle", "title": "A Call to Arms: An Account of Ayyubid or Early Mamluk Alexandria", "date": "2020", "keywords": "account; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; alexandria; arabic; author; ayyubid; b. al; beirut; brill; bruning; cairo; city; d\u0101r al; gate; ibn al; ibn \u02bfabd; jelle; king; kit\u0101b al; kutub; kutub al; leiden; lighthouse; mamluk; manuscript; mirror; mosque; muslim; mu\u1e25ammad; para; rib\u0101\u1e6d; text; wahh\u0101b; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u02bfabd al", "summary": "A transcription of this manuscript with some differences in the text and its vocalization has been entered into al-Maktaba al-sh\u0101mila al-\u1e25ad\u012btha.11 9. Mu\u1e25ammad \u1e24. al-Fiqq\u012b, Fu\u02be\u0101d Sayyid, and Ma\u1e25m\u016bd M. al-\u1e6can\u0101\u1e25\u012b (Cairo: Ma\u1e6dba\u02bfat al-Sunna al-Mu\u1e25ammadiyya, 1381\u20131406/1962\u201386), 2:241; Ibn Taghr\u012b Bird\u012b, al-Nuj\u016bm al-z\u0101hira f\u012b mul\u016bk Mi\u1e63r wa-l-Q\u0101hira (Cairo: Ma\u1e6dba\u02bfat D\u0101r al-Kutub al-Mi\u1e63riyya, 1929\u201372), 11:194; al-Silaf\u012b, Mu\u02bfjam al-safar, ed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8411", "words": "17015", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Tayyara, Abed el-Rahman", "title": "The Rebellious Son: Umayyad Hereditary Succession and the Origins of \u1e24ij\u0101z\u012b Opposition", "date": "2020", "keywords": "ab\u012b; al-\u02bfilmiyya; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; all\u0101h; b. al; beirut; d\u0101r al; early; ibn al; islamic; kit\u0101b al; kutub; mu\u02bf\u0101wiya; mu\u1e25ammad; narrative; press; qur\u02be\u0101n; ra\u1e25m\u0101n; son; succession; tafs\u012br al; ta\u02ber\u012bkh; umayyad; vols; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u02bfabd al; \u1e25ad\u012bth", "summary": "This stance perhaps explains the association of his name in some traditions with the Qadarite movement.103 Al-\u1e6cabar\u012b\u2019s account on the authority of al-Ba\u1e63r\u012b echoes in many later tafs\u012br works, such as those of al-\u1e6c\u016bs\u012b,104 al-M\u0101ward\u012b,105 al-Baghaw\u012b,106 al-Zamakhshar\u012b (d. 538/1143\u20131144),107 al-\u1e6cabris\u012b,108 Ibn \u02bfA\u1e6diyya,109 Ibn al-Jawz\u012b,110 al-N\u012bs\u0101b\u016br\u012b (d. 728/1328),111 and al-Nasaf\u012b (d. 710/1310).112 The first resembles al-Zajj\u0101j\u2019s interpretation and holds that the verse speaks of a licentious, unbelieving, disobedient son (al-f\u0101jir, al-k\u0101fir, al-\u02bf\u0101qq li-w\u0101lidayhi).98 Unlike al-Zajj\u0101j, al-\u1e6cabar\u012b traces this interpretation back to al-\u1e24asan al-Ba\u1e63r\u012b (d. 110/728), with an isn\u0101d that includes the following Basran transmitters: Mu\u1e25ammad b. Bashsh\u0101r (d. 252/866) \u2192 Hawdha b. Khal\u012bfa (d. 210/826) \u2192 \u02bfAwf al-A\u02bfr\u0101b\u012b (d. 146/764).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8412", "words": "12480", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "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", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; century; chicago; civilization; education; grunebaum; history; hodgson; islamic; middle; muslim; new; press; studies; study; university; von; world; wus\u1e6d\u0101", "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? Abstract This article sketches the early history of Islamic civilization from its genesis in the late nineteenth century to its institutionalization in the twentieth.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8413", "words": "27649", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Pierre, Simon", "title": "Le stylite (es\u1e6d\u016bn\u014dr\u014d) et sa \u1e63awma\u02bfa face aux milieux cl\u00e9ricaux islamiques et miaphysites (Ier\u2013IIe / VIIe-VIIIe si\u00e8cles)", "date": "2020", "keywords": "ab\u016b; ainsi; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; alors; arabes; arabo; aurait; aussi; aux; avait; avec; bakr; bar; beyrouth; bien; cambridge; ces; cette; ceux; chronicon; chronique; chronique de; chr\u00e9tiens; colonne; comme; dans; dans la; dans les; dans un; de ce; de la; de son; des; deux; d\u00e8s; d\u0101r al; d\u2019un; encore; entre; est; es\u1e6d\u016bn\u014dr\u014d; et al; et de; et les; et sa; eux; forme; fut; histoire; ibid; ibn; ici; ils; islam; islamic; la colonne; la vie; les; les stylites; leur; lui; l\u2019\u00e9glise; l\u2019\u00e9poque; mais; michel; milieu; moines; monast\u00e8re; musulmans; m\u00eame; non; nous; outre; par; par les; paris; pas; pierre; point; pour; press; propos; que; que la; que les; qui; qu\u2019il; reclus; saint; sans; selon; sens; ses; sim\u00e9on; si\u00e8cle; solitaires; son; sont; stylite; stylite et; sur; sur la; sur les; syriac; syriaque; syrien; syro; terme; tour; tout; tradition; une; university; vie; vie de; viiie; voir; vol; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u00e0 un; \u00e9dit\u00e9; \u00e9dit\u00e9 par; \u00e9glises; \u00e9taient; \u00e9tait; \u00e9t\u00e9; \u00eatre; \u1e25ad\u012b\u1e6f; \u1e63awma\u02bfa", "summary": "Le stylite (es\u1e6d\u016bn\u014dr\u014d) et sa \u1e63awma\u02bfa \u2022 214 de S\u00e9ert, \u00e0 propos de l\u2019exemption de la jizya sur les \u00ab v\u00eatus de laine \u00bb de la province du B\u0113t Garmay239. Hors de la hi\u00e9rarchie officielle, les holy men form\u00e8rent aux yeux des populations rurales superficiellement christianis\u00e9es, les pagani, des r\u00e9f\u00e9rents et des arbitres alternatifs, \u00e0 la fois proches et charismatiques.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8414", "words": "1350", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Garnier, S\u00e9bastien; Klasova, Pamela; Keegan, Matthew L. ", "title": "Introduction: A Note from the Holbergians", "date": "2020", "keywords": "holberg; holbergians; michael; seminar", "summary": "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. These divergent methodological approaches proved harmonious rather than cacophonous, thanks to Michael and to the other Holberg faculty members.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8415", "words": "725", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Borrut, Antoine", "title": "Introduction: The Holberg Seminar", "date": "2020", "keywords": "participants; seminar; students", "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. The central aim of the Seminar was to provide the participants with sustained and high- level feedback on their research and writing at a formative stage in their careers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8416", "words": "11919", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Beers, Theodore S.", "title": "The Treatment of Coeval Persian Poetry in Arabic Anthologies of the Eleventh/Seventeenth Century: A Preliminary Study", "date": "2020", "keywords": "al-\u02bfa\u1e63r; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; anthologies; arabic; coeval; edition; ibn; ma\u02bf\u1e63\u016bm; mu\u1e25ammad; mu\u1e25ibb\u012b; naf\u1e25at; persian; poetry; poets; ray\u1e25\u0101na; sadd; sul\u0101fat; tehran; treatment; work; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u1e63\u0101\u02beib", "summary": "I believe this is a reproduction of the version that was published in Cairo by al-Ma\u1e6dba\u02bfa al-Wahbiyya in 1284/1867\u201368. Another helpful overview is provided by Mu\u1e25ammad Z\u0101hid Ab\u016b Ghudda in \u201cal-\u02bfAll\u0101ma al-mu\u02bearrikh al-ad\u012bb al-sh\u0101\u02bfir Mu\u1e25ammad Am\u012bn al-Mu\u1e25ibb\u012b,\u201d website of R\u0101bi\u1e6dat al-\u02bfUlam\u0101\u02be al-S\u016briyy\u012bn, March 1, 2016, https://islamsyria. com/site/show_articles/7939/. 30.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8417", "words": "8987", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "76", "author": "Garnier, S\u00e9bastien", "title": "Dans le ventre de l\u2019histoire: Sindbad le marin ou la satire du glouton?", "date": "2020", "keywords": "ainsi; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; alors; aux; avec; bencheikh; bien; cette; croix; c\u2019est; dans; dans le; de la; des; deux; d\u2019un; faim; ici; layla; les; lui; l\u2019histoire; mais; manger; marin; mer; mille; nous; nuits; par; paris; pas; plus; pour; p\u00e9tis; que; qui; qu\u2019il; ses; sindbad; son; sur; tout; une; ventre; voir; voyages; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u00eele", "summary": "Je l\u2019observai \u00e0 son insu alors que la dalle avait \u00e9t\u00e9 remise en place et que le cort\u00e8ge s\u2019\u00e9tait \u00e9loign\u00e9. Elles le taraudent encore au dernier voyage r\u00e9mun\u00e9rateur (V6) : N\u2019\u00e9tais-je pas tranquille chez moi, dans un pays o\u00f9 je vivais heureux, jouissant de bien manger, bien boire et de me bien v\u00eatir ?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8418", "words": "12695", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Keegan, Matthew L. ", "title": "Adab without the Crusades: The Inebriated Solidarity of a Young Officer\u2019s Hunting Epistle", "date": "2020", "keywords": "ab\u016b; adab; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; arabic; asceticism; century; companions; crusades; drinking; d\u012bn; epistle; hunting; islamic; keegan; khar\u012bda; mamluk; piety; poetry; solidarity; time; university; wine; wus\u1e6d\u0101; yaghmur; \u02bfim\u0101d al", "summary": "al-Muhadhdhib al-Dimashq\u012b, a Damascene preacher of the sixth/twelfth century.22 At the end of the allegorical epistle, \u02bfIm\u0101d al-D\u012bn seems almost apologetic about its hortatory quality, saying: \u201cThis epistle ends with a sermonizing section (fa\u1e63l wa\u02bf\u1e93\u012b), which is not the task of the book (laysa min shar\u1e6d al-kit\u0101b).\u201d23 \u02bf Im\u0101d al-D\u012bn al-I\u1e63fah\u0101n\u012b, Khar\u012bdat al-qa\u1e63r wa-jar\u012bdat ahl al-\u02bfa\u1e63r (Levant), ed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8419", "words": "26069", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "75", "author": "Klasova, Pamela", "title": "\u1e24ad\u012bth as Common Discourse: Reflections on the Intersectarian Dissemination of the Creation of the Intellect Tradition", "date": "2020", "keywords": "a. al; ab\u016b; ab\u016b al; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; authority; b. al; bika; discourse; d\u0101r al; early; existence; god; ibn; imam al; intellect; isn\u0101ds; kit\u0101b al; lahu; m. al; maktabat al; mu\u1e25ammad; mu\u1e25ammad al; pen; prophet; q\u0101la; second; sh\u012b\u02bf\u012b; sunn\u012b; thumma; university; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u02bfabd; \u02bfabd al; \u02bfaql; \u1e25ad\u012bth; \u1e63adr\u0101", "summary": "[al-I\u1e63bah\u0101n\u012b, d. 430/1038] narrated it in his \u1e24ilya and al-Kha\u1e6d\u012bb al-Baghd\u0101d\u012b [d. 463/1071] in [his] Asm\u0101\u02be man raw\u0101 \u02bfan M\u0101lik [\u201cNames of those who transmitted \u1e25ad\u012bth from M\u0101lik\u201d]138 through the narration (riw\u0101ya) of the abovementioned Ibn Ab\u012b Raj\u0101\u02be.139 Al-Kha\u1e6d\u012bb said: \u201cThis \u1e25ad\u012bth is to be rejected (munkar) from the corpus of M\u0101lik [b. Anas]\u2019s \u1e25ad\u012bths.\u201d al-Suy\u016b\u1e6d\u012b, al-La\u02be\u0101li\u02be al-ma\u1e63n\u016b\u02bfa, 1:128\u201332.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8420", "words": "14400", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Livingston, Daisy", "title": "The Paperwork of a Mamluk Muq\u1e6da\u02bf: Documentary Life Cycles, Archival Spaces, and the Importance of Documents Lying Around", "date": "2020", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; amirs; archival; archive; collection; corpus; documentary; documents; egypt; geniza; life; livingston; mamluk; material; paperwork; petition; practices; preservation; reuse; university; wus\u1e6d\u0101", "summary": "The phenomenon of document reuse, for instance, has been highlighted as a practice with profound implications for understanding archiving. It is difficult to get a meaningful grasp of this particular kind of document reuse.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8421", "words": "17444", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Mauder, Christian", "title": "Being Persian in Late Mamluk Egypt: The Construction and Significance of Persian Ethnic Identity in the Salons of Sultan Q\u0101ni\u1e63awh al-Ghawr\u012b (r. 906\u2013922/1501\u20131516)", "date": "2020", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; arabic; cairo; court; egypt; ghawr\u012b; history; identity; islamic; language; late; maj\u0101lis al; mamluk; mauder; medieval; naf\u0101\u02beis; persian; press; shar\u012bf; studies; sultan; sultan al; university; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u02bfazz\u0101m", "summary": "M. M. al-F\u0101kh\u016br\u012b and Y. \u02bfAbb\u0101ra (Damascus: Mansh\u016br\u0101t Wiz\u0101rat al-Thaq\u0101fa, 1972\u20131973), 2(1):48; Mu\u1e63\u1e6daf\u0101 \u02bfAl\u012b, The Ottoman Gentleman of the Sixteenth Century: Mustafa \u00c2li\u2019s \u201cMeva\u02beid\u00fc\u02ben-Nefa\u02beis fi Kava\u02bfidi\u02bel-Mecalis\u201d; 383 \u2022 Christian Mauder Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 28 (2020) claiming to constitute eyewitness accounts of what was said and done during the meetings.27 Two of these works, Naf\u0101\u02beis maj\u0101lis al-sul\u1e6d\u0101niyya f\u012b \u1e25aq\u0101\u02beiq asr\u0101r al-Qur\u02be\u0101niyya by one \u1e24usayn b. Mu\u1e25ammad al-\u1e24usayn\u012b, known as al-Shar\u012bf, and al-Kawkab al-durr\u012b f\u012b mas\u0101\u02beil al-Ghawr\u012b of unknown authorship, have been known to scholarship since the mid-twentieth century and are available in incomplete editions.28 In the case of al-Kawkab al-durr\u012b and al-\u02bfUq\u016bd al-jawhariyya, this consistency is the result of textual interdependence between the two texts, which could share the same (presently unknown) author.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8423", "words": "880", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Van Steenbergen, Jo", "title": "Why Do We Need a New Textbook?", "date": "2020", "keywords": "history; islamic; world", "summary": "There definitely were great history textbooks out there (Hodgson, Lapidus, Hourani, Endress & Hillenbrand, Egger, Choueiri, Noth & Paul, Haarmann, Garcin, et al.). Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 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.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8424", "words": "898", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Barker, Hannah", "title": "Teaching Medieval Slavery and Captivity: An Online Pedagogical Resource", "date": "2020", "keywords": "medieval; slavery; teaching", "summary": "Finally, I hope that presenting a broad array of sources will enable students to have more nuanced discussions about the ways in which slavery intersected with religion, race, and gender within medieval Islamicate societies. For those of us teaching the medieval Middle East, I hope that this website will help address three pedagogical Teaching Note Teaching Medieval Slavery and Captivity: An Online Pedagogical Resource Hannah Barker Arizona State University (Hannah.Barker.1@asu.edu)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8426", "words": "1278", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Gordon, Matthew", "title": "Amikam Elad, The Rebellion of Mu\u1e25ammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya in 145/762: \u1e6c\u0101lib\u012bs and Early \u02bfAbb\u0101s\u012bs in Conflict", "date": "2020", "keywords": "elad; history; nafs", "summary": "Most modern discussions center on the rebellion organized by al-Nafs al-Zakiyya (\u201cthe Pure Soul\u201d) and his reportedly talented full brother (Ibr\u0101h\u012bm) against the new Abbasid caliph, Ab\u016b Ja\u02bffar al-Man\u1e63\u016br, in 145/762. Elad provides the stuff of a richer context, however, in bringing together a wealth of detail on, for example, the person and family of al-Nafs al-Zakiyya.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8427", "words": "2690", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Hern\u00e1ndez, Adday", "title": "M\u0101lik b. Anas, Al-Muwa\u1e6d\u1e6da\u02be: The Recension of Ya\u1e25y\u0101 b. Ya\u1e25y\u0101 al-Layth\u012b; A Translation of the Royal Moroccan Edition", "date": "2020", "keywords": "edition; islamic; muwa\u1e6d\u1e6da\u02be; m\u0101lik; translation; ya\u1e25y\u0101", "summary": "Maribel Fierro, \u201cEl alfaqu\u00ed ber\u00e9ber Ya\u1e25y\u0101 b. Ya\u1e25y\u0101 al-Lay\u1e6f\u012b (m. 234/848), \u2018El inteligente de al-Andalus,\u2019\u201d in \u00c1vila Navarro, Biograf\u00edas y g\u00e9nero biogr\u00e1fico, 269\u2013344, at 334. 14. Ibn \u02bfAbd al-Barr, Kit\u0101b al-Tamh\u012bd li-m\u0101 f\u012b al-Muwa\u1e6d\u1e6da\u02be min al-ma\u02bf\u0101n\u012b wa-l-as\u0101n\u012bd, ed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8428", "words": "4458", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Sch\u00f6nl\u00e9ber, M\u00f3nika", "title": "Ibn A\u02bftham al-K\u016bf\u012b, Qi\u1e6d\u02bfa min Kit\u0101b al-fut\u016b\u1e25, li-l-\u02bfall\u0101ma al-mu\u02bearrikh Ab\u012b Mu\u1e25ammad A\u1e25mad b. A\u02bftham al-K\u016bf\u012b, al-mutawaff\u0101 ba\u02bfda sanat 320 h, q\u016bbilat \u02bfal\u0101 nuskha qad\u012bma min al-qarn al-s\u0101dis al-hijr\u012b, akhrajahu wa-wa\u1e0da\u02bfa fah\u0101risahu Markaz I\u1e25y\u0101\u02be al-Tur\u0101th a", "date": "2020", "keywords": "al-\u02bfa\u1e6d\u1e6d\u0101r; a\u02bftham; fut\u016b\u1e25; ibn; kit\u0101b; kit\u0101b al; text; zarz\u016br", "summary": "This shortcoming was finally remedied, at least in part, by the publication of the hitherto most reliable and complete printed text, published in Hyder\u0101b\u0101d in 1968\u20131975 Ibn A\u02bftham al-K\u016bf\u012b, Qi\u1e6d\u02bfa min Kit\u0101b al-fut\u016b\u1e25, li-l-\u02bfall\u0101ma al-mu\u02bearrikh Ab\u012b Mu\u1e25ammad A\u1e25mad b. A\u02bftham al-K\u016bf\u012b, al-mutawaff\u0101 ba\u02bfda sanat 320 h, q\u016bbilat \u02bfal\u0101 nuskha qad\u012bma min al-qarn al-s\u0101dis al-hijr\u012b, akhrajahu wa-wa\u1e0da\u02bfa fah\u0101risahu Markaz I\u1e25y\u0101\u02be al-Tur\u0101th al-T\u0101bi\u02bf li-D\u0101r Makh\u1e6d\u016b\u1e6d\u0101t al-\u02bfAtaba Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 28 (2020): 421-429 Book Review The book under review is a new, partial edition of Ibn A\u02bftham al-K\u016bf\u012b\u2019s Kit\u0101b al-fut\u016b\u1e25, made by Qays al-\u02bfA\u1e6d\u1e6d\u0101r and printed in 2017 in Karbal\u0101\u02be, Iraq.1 Although the Kit\u0101b al-fut\u016b\u1e25 has been edited several times over the past half-century, the present volume deserves special attention as it is based on a manuscript\u2014MS Ankara (Saib 5418), kept in Dil ve Tarih-Co\u011frafya Fak\u00fcltesi K\u00fct\u00fcphanesi of Ankara University\u2014that has not been used for any of the work\u2019s previous printed editions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8429", "words": "2905", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "H\u00e1mori, Andr\u00e1s", "title": "Al-Mu\u1e25assin b. \u02bfAl\u012b al-Tan\u016bkh\u012b, Stories of Piety and Prayer: Deliverance Follows Adversity", "date": "2020", "keywords": "arabic; bray; min; stories; story; tan\u016bkh\u012b", "summary": "This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which allows users to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the original authors and source. mailto:hamori%40princeton.edu?subject= Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 28 (2020) 431 \u2022 Andr\u00e1s H\u00e1mori In composing his Faraj, al-Tan\u016bkh\u012b (d. 384/994) took up a narrow genre already in existence and turned it into one of delightful variety. This second Faraj ba\u02bfd al-shidda, which has been published, is described by al-Tan\u016bkh\u012b as being \u201cabout twenty folios long\u201d and consisting \u201cmostly of reports about the Prophet . . .", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8430", "words": "3537", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "31", "author": "Ballan, Mohamad", "title": "Luke B. Yarbrough, Friends of the Emir: Non-Muslim State Officials in Premodern Islamic Thought", "date": "2020", "keywords": "chapter; discourse; islamic; muslim; non; officials; prescriptive; yarbrough", "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 (\u201cPreludes to the Discourse: Non-Muslim Officials and Late Ancient Antecedents\u201d) 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 Roman Empire and non-Zoroastrian officials in the Sasanian Empire.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8431", "words": "2718", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Varisco, Daniel", "title": "Al-Malik al-Af\u1e0dal al-\u02bfAbb\u0101s b. \u02bfAl\u012b b. D\u0101w\u016bd al-Ras\u016bl\u012b, Bughyat al-fall\u0101\u1e25\u012bn f\u012b al-ashj\u0101r al-muthmira wa-l-ray\u0101\u1e25\u012bn", "date": "2020", "keywords": "af\u1e0dal; copy; manuscript; text; yemen", "summary": "One of the glaring errors is misidentifying the author of Mil\u1e25 al-mal\u0101\u1e25a, whom he elsewhere recognizes as al-Ashraf (p. 77), as al-Malik al-Mu\u1e93affar in a footnote on p. 193, note 3. These are the tenth-century al-Fil\u0101\u1e25a al-Naba\u1e6diyya attributed to Ibn Wa\u1e25shiyya and translated from the Syriac, the Arabic translation of the Byzantine al-Fil\u0101\u1e25a al-R\u016bmiyya of Qus\u1e6d\u016bs (Cassiano Basso Scolastico) of the sixth\u2013seventh century, and the eleventh- century al-Fil\u0101\u1e25a of the Andalusian Ibn Ba\u1e63\u1e63\u0101l.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8432", "words": "3099", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Durand-Gu\u00e9dy, David", "title": "Jean Aubin, \u00c9tudes sur l\u2019Iran m\u00e9di\u00e9val: G\u00e9ographie historique et soci\u00e9t\u00e9", "date": "2020", "keywords": "article; aubin; history; iran; jean; mongol; sources; volume", "summary": "In Iran, Aubin (\u016abin) is known mostly through translations of articles quoting him, starting with Denise Aigle\u2019s collection of articles (The Mongol Empire between Myth and Reality: Studies in Anthropological History [Leiden: Brill, 2015]). Bayhaq\u012b in article 7; Shab\u0101nk\u0101ra\u02be\u012b in article 9; Ibn Bazz\u0101z in articles 11\u201313; Fary\u016bmad\u012b in article 17).6 But these omissions do not detract from the fact that this is a fine book that will be of benefit to every specialist in medieval Iran.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8433", "words": "2626", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "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", "keywords": "amanat; essays; green; persian; sphere; studies; term; world", "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 (\u201cRemembering the Persianate\u201d), are whether the \u201ccategory of Iran\u201d can effectively be marginalized in Persianate studies, and how Iranian studies\u2014the concern is mainly with the discipline of history\u2014can avoid the pitfalls of \u201cparochialism and essentialism\u201d (p . 13) . Stressing the existence of a vast sociocultural sphere connected by Persophonie (f\u0101rs\u012b-zab\u0101n), a harmonious \u201ccomfort zone,\u201d the editors emphasize the viability of Persianate studies as an academic field whose purview extends beyond language and literature.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8434", "words": "2857", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Walravens, Meia", "title": "Emma J. Flatt, The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates: Living Well in the Persian Cosmopolis", "date": "2020", "keywords": "book; cosmopolis; deccan; flatt; persian", "summary": "The author provides a clear explanation of this concept, engaging with Sheldon Pollock\u2019s work on the Sanskrit Cosmopolis, as well as with Richard Eaton\u2019s and Philip Wagoner\u2019s use of the term Persian Cosmopolis (pp. 17\u201324). Although the introduction recognizes that one should not disregard the local context when focusing on the Persian Cosmopolis (pp.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8435", "words": "3176", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Mauder, Christian", "title": "Thomas Bauer, Warum es kein islamisches Mittelalter gab: Das Erbe der Antike und der Orient", "date": "2020", "keywords": "bauer; century; history; islamic; middle; period", "summary": "For a useful overview of current systems of periodization of Islamic history and the debates about them, see F. Donner, \u201cPeriodization as a Tool of the Historian with Special Reference to Islamic History,\u201d Der Islam 91, no. 1 (2014): 20\u201336, especially 28\u201336; and with regard to early Islam in particular, A. Borrut, \u201cVanishing Syria: Periodization and Power in Early Islam,\u201d Der Islam 91, no. 1 (2014): 37\u201368. Moreover, Bauer develops a reasoned alternative to this term and the periodi- zation it expresses by arguing that, up to the eleventh century CE, Islamic history should be understood as the final, albeit not fundamentally distinct, phase of late antiquity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8484", "words": "26029", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Thomas Miller, Matthew", "title": "The Poetics of the Sufi Carnival: The Rogue Lyrics (Qalandariyy\u0101t) as Heterotopic Countergenre(s)", "date": "2022", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; d\u012bn; d\u012bv\u0101n; fakhr; figure; genre; ghazal; islamic; line; literature; meaning; medieval; meisami; miller; mock; new; panegyric; persian; poem; poetic; poetry; press; qalandariyy\u0101t; qalandar\u012b; rogue; san\u0101\u02be\u012b; studies; sufi; tehran; tradition; type; university; wine; winehouse; world; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u02bfa\u1e6d\u1e6d\u0101r; \u02bfir\u0101q\u012b", "summary": "The conflation of seemingly irreconcilable religious particularities\u2014e.g., Magian wine in a Christian monastery\u2014occurs not infrequently in medieval Persian Sufi poetry. The turn away from the Ka\u02bfba in this poem (and, in other qalandar\u012b poems, the turn away from the mosque, ascetics\u2019 lodge, etc.) is, in a sense, a metaphoric performance of the qalandar\u012b poet\u2019s rejection of the poetic world of ascetic-homiletic and royal court poetry.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8556", "words": "16487", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Weitz, Lev", "title": "The Long Arm of the Provincial Law: A Custody Battle in a Q\u0101\u1e0d\u012b Petition from the Medieval Fayy\u016bm", "date": "2022", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; arabic; arm; b. al; b. rizq; century; child; custody; document; d\u0101r al; egypt; father; fayy\u016bm; grandmother; ibn; ibr\u0101h\u012bm; islamic; judge; law; mu\u1e25ammad; petition; q\u0101\u1e0d\u012b; rizq; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u02bfabd al; \u1e25asan; \u1e6du\u1e6d\u016bn", "summary": "B\u016bl\u0101q: al-Ma\u1e6dba\u02bfa al-Kubr\u0101 al-Am\u012briyya, 1314/1896\u201397. Ibrahim, Child Custody, 78\u201379; Ibn Qud\u0101ma, Mughn\u012b, 11:412\u201313; al-Sarakhs\u012b, Mabs\u016b\u1e6d, 5:210; Khal\u012bl b. Is\u1e25\u0101q al-Jund\u012b, al-Taw\u1e0d\u012b\u1e25 f\u012b shar\u1e25 al-Mukhta\u1e63ar al-fara\u02bf\u012b li-Ibn al-\u1e24\u0101jib, ed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8598", "words": "37935", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "72", "author": "Munt, Harry", "title": "The Umayyad and Early Abbasid Inscriptions in the Prophet\u2019s Mosque in Medina", "date": "2022", "keywords": "abbasid; abbasid inscriptions; ab\u016b al; akhb\u0101r al; al-\u02bfabb\u0101s al; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; all\u0101h al; am\u012br al; a\u02bfl\u0101q al; b. al; b\u0101b al; caliph; caliph al; discussion; d\u0101r al; early; et al; god; h\u0101r\u016bn al; ibn al; inscriptions; islamic; kit\u0101b al; mad\u012bna al; magh\u0101nim al; mahd\u012b; makka al; maktabat al; man\u0101sik; masjid al; medina; mosque; mu\u02beassasat al; mu\u1e25ammad al; nafs al; prophet; samh\u016bd\u012b; ta\u02ber\u012bkh al; text; umayyad; waf\u0101\u02be al; work; wus\u1e6d\u0101; ya\u1e25y\u0101; \u02bfabd al; \u02bfabd all\u0101h", "summary": "Modern discussions include al-\u02bfAl\u012b, \u201cal-Mu\u02beallaf\u0101t al-\u02bfarabiyya,\u201d 129\u201330; \u1e62al\u0101\u1e25 al-D\u012bn al-Munajjid, Mu\u02bfjam m\u0101 ullifa \u02bfan ras\u016bl All\u0101h (\u1e63) (Beirut: D\u0101r al-Kit\u0101b al-Jad\u012bd, 1402/1982), 93\u201394; \u02bfAbd All\u0101h \u02bfUsayl\u0101n, al-Mad\u012bna al-munawwara f\u012b \u0101th\u0101r al-mu\u02beallif\u012bn wa-l-b\u0101\u1e25ith\u012bn qad\u012bman wa-\u1e25ad\u012bthan (Medina: \u02bfAbd All\u0101h \u02bfUsayl\u0101n, 1418/1997), 32\u201333. 69. Al-Sakh\u0101w\u012b, I\u02bfl\u0101n, 273; followed by al-Munajjid, Mu\u02bfjam, 93\u201394; and \u02bfUsayl\u0101n, al-Mad\u012bna al-munawwara, 33. 88.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8608", "words": "16959", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Miller, Nathaniel A.", "title": "Dear Mu\u02bf\u0101wiya: An \u201cEpistolary\u201d Poem on a Major Muslim Military Defeat during the Mediterranean Campaigns of AH 28\u201335/649\u201356 CE", "date": "2023", "keywords": "ab\u012b; ab\u016b; ab\u016b al-\u02bfiy\u0101l; al-\u02bfiy\u0101l; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; b. al; badr; constantinople; egypt; history; ibn; ibn sa\u02bfd; islamic; kit\u0101b al; military; muslim; mu\u02bf\u0101wiya; oxford; poem; press; pseudo; sa\u02bfd; seb\u0113os; studies; university; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u02bfabd al; \u02bfamr; \u02bfuthm\u0101n; \u1e6dabar\u012b", "summary": "Another Hudhal\u012b poet from Khun\u0101\u02bfa, Ab\u016b al-\u02bfIy\u0101l\u2019s clan, complains of having been left behind in Arabia while his family has gone to Egypt (Mi\u1e63r).45 Still another Hudhal\u012b, Ab\u016b \u1e62akhr, declares that some kin \u201chave left Tih\u0101ma, our land, and for Mecca have exchanged Babylon (B\u0101b al-Y\u016bn),\u201d referring to the Byzantine name for the Egyptian fortress adjacent to which the Muslim garrison of Fus\u1e6d\u0101\u1e6d was established.46 These poetic references to Hudhayl in Egypt are corroborated by Ab\u016b al-Q\u0101sim \u02bfAbd al-Ra\u1e25m\u0101n b. \u02bfAbd al-\u1e24akam (d. 257/871), the chronicler of the Egyptian conquests, who mentions the location of Hudhayl\u2019s quarter in early Fus\u1e6d\u0101\u1e6d.47 The texts of the mu\u02bf\u0101ra\u1e0da between Badr and Ab\u016b al-\u02bfIy\u0101l make absolutely no reference to the narrative of a slain nephew, so there is no reason to accept the latter as the poems\u2019 subject. Ab\u016b al-Faraj al-I\u1e63fah\u0101n\u012b, Kit\u0101b al-Agh\u0101n\u012b, ed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8698", "words": "34636", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Schine, Rachel", "title": "Translating Race in the Islamic Studies Classroom", "date": "2022", "keywords": "abbasid; african; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; arabic; arabs; black; cambridge; century; classroom; difference; d\u0101r al; east; fa\u1e0dl\u0101n; history; human; ibid; ibn; ibn al; ibn fa\u1e0dl\u0101n; islamic; journal; library; literature; medieval; middle; modern; montgomery; muslim; mu\u1e25ammad al; nasab; new; new york; non; penguin; people; press; qutayba; race; rachel; racialization; racism; schine; slavery; studies; term; text; translation; t\u016bnis\u012b; university; university press; wahh\u0101b; ways; white; world; wus\u1e6d\u0101; york; \u02bfabd al; \u02bfantara", "summary": "S\u012brat al-Am\u012bra Dh\u0101t al-Himma, ed. \u02bfAl\u012b b. M\u016bs\u0101 al-Maq\u0101nib\u012b (Beirut: al-Maktaba al-Sha\u02bfbiyya, 1980), 1:598. 207. S\u012brat \u02bfAntara b. Shadd\u0101d (Cairo: al-Maktaba al-Jumhuriyya al-\u02bfArabiyya, 1980), 1:365. https://www.aramcoworld.com/Articles/November-2016/The-Great-Migration-of-the-Bani-Hilal https://www.aramcoworld.com/Articles/November-2016/The-Great-Migration-of-the-Bani-Hilal Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 30 (2022)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8799", "words": "27497", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "McLaren, Andrew", "title": "Dating Ibn A\u02bftham\u2019s History: Of Persian Manuscripts, Obscure Biographies, and Incomplete Isn\u0101ds", "date": "2022", "keywords": "ab\u016b; ab\u016b al; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; all\u0101h al; a\u02bftham al; b. al; balaw\u012b; cambridge; century; conrad; date; dating; early; et al; fut\u016b\u1e25; hadith; history; ibn al; ibn a\u02bftham; ibn \u02bfad\u012b; isn\u0101ds; jurj\u0101n; kit\u0101b al; lindstedt; mad\u0101\u02bein\u012b; mu\u1e25ammad al; persian; press; sahm\u012b; sall\u0101m\u012b; ta\u02ber\u012bkh; text; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u02bfabd al", "summary": "It simply reads: \u201cAl-\u1e24asan b. al-\u1e24ub\u0101b al-Muqri\u02be al-Baghd\u0101d\u012b said . . .\u201d The figures in question are Mu\u1e25ammad b. Yaz\u012bd al-Yam\u0101n\u012b, i.e., al-Mubarrad (d. 285/898), cited in Ibn A\u02bftham, Fut\u016b\u1e25, 8:252.8\u20139, and Ibn al-\u1e24ub\u0101b al-Muqri\u02be (d. 301/914), cited at 8:211.ult.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8881", "words": "28343", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Pecorini Goodall, Leone", "title": "\u2018The \u02bfAbbas after Whom Those Who Rule in Baghdad Are Named\u2019: Al-\u02bfAbb\u0101s b. al-Wal\u012bd in Late Antique Accounts of the Marw\u0101nids and the Third Fitna", "date": "2022", "keywords": "al-\u02bfabb\u0101s; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; ans\u0101b al; arabic; b. al; b. marw\u0101n; b. \u02bfabd; bal\u0101dhur\u012b; caliph; chronicle; d\u0101r al; early; et al; fitna; hish\u0101m; history; ibn; idem; islamic; khal\u012bfa b.; kit\u0101b al; mad\u0101\u02bein\u012b; malik; marw\u0101n; marw\u0101nid; maslama; narrative; press; rule; sources; theophanes; theophilus; t\u0101r\u012bkh; university; vols; wal\u012bd b.; wus\u1e6d\u0101; yaz\u012bd b.; \u02bfabd al; \u1e6dabar\u012b", "summary": "Other figures reported by al-Ya\u02bfq\u016bb\u012b to have rebelled against al-Yaz\u012bd b. al-Wal\u012bd are Bishr b. al-Wal\u012bd in Qinnasr\u012bn, \u02bfUmar b. al-Wal\u012bd in Jordan, and Yaz\u012bd b. Sulaym\u0101n b. \u02bfAbd al-Malik in Palestine.139 This means that, in al-Ya\u02bfq\u016bb\u012b, three of four revolts against Yaz\u012bd b. al-Wal\u012bd were carried out by his own brothers, which contradicts the strong fraternal aspect of the other accounts. In the same poem as referenced in n. 206, attributed to al-\u1e24akam b. al-Wal\u012bd while imprisoned, the short-lived heir nominated Marw\u0101n as caliph after himself: fa-inna ahlaku an\u0101 wa-wal\u012b \u02bfahd\u012b // fa-Marw\u0101nun am\u012bru al-mu\u02bemin\u012bn\u0101 (\u201cIf I and my heir-apparent [wal\u012b \u02bfahd\u012b] should die//then Marw\u0101n [should be] commander of the faithful\u201d) (al-Bal\u0101dhur\u012b, Ans\u0101b al-ashr\u0101f, 9:249). 209.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8889", "words": "1465", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Borrut, Antoine; Gordon, Matthew; Vacca, Alison", "title": "Letter from the Editors", "date": "2021", "keywords": "islamic; issue", "summary": "We presented the first issue of the newly conceived journal at the MESA meeting in Denver in November 2015, the same meeting at which Matthew stepped Letter from the Editors Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 29 (2021): i-iii (Photo of Antoine Borrut by Juliette Fradin Photography) Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 29 (2021): iii Letter from the Editors Sincerely, Antoine Borrut, Matthew Gordon, and Alison Vacca file:///Users/Marie/Dropbox/Academics/UW/UW%20RTFs/tmedievalists.com/membership-form/ file:///Users/Marie/Dropbox/Academics/UW/UW%20RTFs/tmedievalists.com/membership-form/ https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/alusur/issue/archive https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/alusur/issue/archive https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/alusur/issue/archive", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8890", "words": "3549", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Cook, Michael", "title": "Remarks by the Recipient of the 2020 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award Given at the Annual Meeting of Middle East Medievalists", "date": "2021", "keywords": "arabic; career; field; history; michael; time; years", "summary": "On the Holberg Seminar, see the special dossier published last year in this journal: \u201cIslamic History Broadly Conceived: A Tribute to Michael Cook and the Holberg Seminar,\u201d guest-edited by S\u00e9bastien Garnier, Matthew L. Keegan, and Pamela Klasova, Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 28 (2020). MEM Awards Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 29 (2021): iv-ix First and foremost, let me say how much I appreciate the honor that Middle East Medievalists, its members and officers, are doing me in giving me this award.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8893", "words": "7792", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Al-Jallad, Ahmad", "title": "The Digraph \u0627\u0649 in the Quranic Consonantal Text and the Identification of a New Letter Shape for Final H\u0113 in the 7th to 8th Century Arabic Script", "date": "2021", "keywords": "arabic; digraph; glottal; inscriptions; orthography; quranic; script; spelling; stop; text; van; word", "summary": "L. Nehm\u00e9, \u201cNew Dated Inscriptions (Nabataean and Pre-Islamic Arabic) from a Site near Al-Jawf, Ancient D\u016bmah, Saudi Arabia,\u201d Arabian Epigraphic Notes 3 (2017): 121\u201364. 48.\u2009 D\u016bmah sixth-century Arabic inscription: A Christian Arabic-script graffito from the region of D\u016bmat al-Jandal, northern Saudi Arabia; see L. Nehm\u00e9, \u201cNew Dated Inscriptions (Nabataean and Pre-Islamic Arabic) from a Site near Al-Jawf, Ancient D\u016bmah, Saudi Arabia,\u201d Arabian Epigraphic Notes 3 (2017): 121\u201364.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8895", "words": "31628", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Saif, Liana", "title": "A Preliminary Study of the Pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica: Texts, Context, and Doctrines", "date": "2021", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; alexander; arabe; arabic; aristotelian; aristotle; astrology; b. al; book; century; der; fols; gh\u0101yat al; greek; hermes; hermetica; ibid; ibn al; ikhw\u0101n al; islamic; kit\u0101b al; leiden; london; magic; maktabat al; medieval; occult; psah; pseudo; r\u016b\u1e25\u0101niyy\u0101t; sage; saif; sciences; sirr al; study; texts; ustuwa\u1e6d\u1e6d\u0101s; work; world; wus\u1e6d\u0101; years; zoroastrian; \u02bfilal al", "summary": "This manuscript includes the third b\u0101b, entitled al-Isq\u016b\u1e6d\u0101s (al-Ustuwa\u1e6d\u1e6d\u0101s?), from al-Kit\u0101b al-Sh\u0101mil f\u012b al-ba\u1e25r al-k\u0101mil (The Comprehensive Book on the Perfect Sea), a magic text by Sir\u0101j al-D\u012bn Ab\u016b Ya\u02bfq\u016bb al-Sakk\u0101k\u012b (1160\u20131229). In addition to Dhakh\u012brat Iskandar and another text on stones, which is described below, this manuscript includes the third b\u0101b, entitled al-Isq\u016b\u1e6d\u0101s, from al-Sakk\u0101k\u012b\u2019s magic text al-Kit\u0101b al-Sh\u0101mil f\u012b al-ba\u1e25r al-k\u0101mil (The Comprehensive Book on the Perfect Sea).32", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8897", "words": "16383", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "von Sch\u00f6neman, Katja", "title": "Created After, From, and For the Man? : Development of Premodern Shi\u02bfi Exegetic Discourse on the Creation of Woman", "date": "2021", "keywords": "ab\u016b al; adam; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; b. al; creation; discourse; et al; eve; exegesis; gender; im\u0101m\u012b; islamic; m. al; man; mu\u1e25ammad al; qur\u02be\u0101n; rib; sunni; tafs\u012br al; tradition; women", "summary": "A\u1e25mad al-W\u0101\u1e25id\u012b (d. 468/1076), Tafs\u012br al-bas\u012b\u1e6d (Riyadh: Wiz\u0101rat al-Ta\u02bfl\u012bm al-\u02bfA\u0304l\u012b, 2010), 6:281; al-R\u0101z\u012b, al-Tafs\u012br al-kab\u012br, 9:166. For similar passages in Sunni exegeses of the time, see, e.g., al-W\u0101\u1e25id\u012b, Tafs\u012br al-bas\u012b\u1e6d, 6:282; al-R\u0101z\u012b, al-Tafs\u012br al-kab\u012br, 9:167.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8898", "words": "34473", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "88", "author": "Mugler, Joshua", "title": "The Life of Christopher", "date": "2021", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; aleppo; antioch; antiochians; an\u1e6d\u0101k\u012b; arabic; byzantine; canard; catholicos; century; christian; christopher; church; city; dawla; des; edition; emperor; end; father; god; good; greek; group; hand; head; histoire; ibid; ibn; ibn al; ibr\u0101h\u012bm; john; joshua; life; man; manuscript; meaning; monastery; mugler; mugler al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; muslim; patriarch; people; person; place; rash\u012bq; reads; rule; sayf al; saying; story; symeon; syriac; text; things; time; translation; treiger; vie; way; word; wus\u1e6d\u0101; y\u016b\u1e25ann\u0101; zayat; \u02bf\u012bs\u0101; \u0627\u0627\u0644; \u0627\u0628\u0640\u0640\u0646; \u0627\u062e\u0640\u0640\u0631; \u0627\u0630\u0627; \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0637\u0631\u064a\u0640\u0640\u0631\u0643; \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0640\u0640\u064a; \u0627\u0644\u062f\u0648\u0644\u0640\u0640\u0629; \u0627\u0644\u0630\u064a; \u0627\u0644\u0630\u064a\u0640\u0640\u0646; \u0627\u0644\u0640\u0640\u0630\u064a; \u0627\u0644\u0640\u0640\u0649; \u0627\u0644\u0646; \u0627\u0644\u0648\u0642\u0640\u0640\u062a; \u0627\u0644\u0649; \u0627\u0644\u064a\u0640\u0640\u0647; \u0627\u0644\u064a\u0647; \u0627\u0646\u0637\u0627\u0643\u064a\u0629; \u0627\u0646\u0637\u0627\u0643\u064a\u0640\u0640\u0629; \u0627\u0646\u0640\u0640\u0647; \u0627\u0647\u0640\u0640\u0644; \u0627\u064a\u0636\u0640\u0640\u0627; \u0628\u062d\u0633\u0640\u0640\u0628; \u0628\u0639\u0640\u0640\u062f; \u0628\u0640\u0640\u0644; \u0628\u0640\u0640\u0647; \u0630\u0627\u0643; \u0630\u0644\u0640\u0640\u0643; \u0630\u0644\u0643; \u0632 al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; \u0633\u0640\u0640\u064a\u0641; \u0635\u062d\u062d\u062a\u0647; \u0639\u0640\u0640\u0646; \u0639\u0644\u0649; \u063a\u064a\u0640\u0640\u0631; \u0640\u0640\u0629; \u0641\u0640\u0640\u064a; \u0641\u0640\u0640\u064a \u0630\u0644\u0640\u0640\u0643; \u0641\u0642\u0640\u0640\u0627\u0644; \u0641\u064a\u0640\u0640\u0647; \u0641\u064a\u0645\u0640\u0640\u0627; \u0642\u0640\u0640\u062f; \u0643\u0627\u0646; \u0643\u0627\u0646 \u0641\u0640\u0640\u064a; \u0643\u0627\u0646\u0640\u0640\u062a; \u0643\u0627\u0646\u0640\u0640\u0648\u0627; \u0644\u0640\u0640\u0645; \u0644\u0640\u0640\u0647; \u0645\u062b\u0640\u0640\u0644; \u0645\u062f\u064a\u0646\u0640\u0640\u0629; \u0645\u0640\u0640\u0627; \u0645\u0640\u0640\u0627 \u0643\u0627\u0646; \u0645\u0640\u0640\u0639; \u0645\u0640\u0640\u0646; \u0645\u0646\u0647\u0640\u0640\u0645; \u0646\u062d\u0640\u0640\u0646; \u0646\u0641\u0633\u0640\u0640\u0647; \u0647\u0627\u0647\u0646\u0640\u0640\u0627; \u0647\u0630\u0627; \u0647\u0640\u0640\u0630\u0627; \u0647\u0640\u0640\u0648; \u0647\u0644\u0644\u0627; \u0647\u0646\u0640\u0640\u0627\u0643; \u0648\u0627\u062d\u0640\u0640\u062f; \u0648\u0627\u0644; \u0648\u0627\u0645\u0640\u0640\u0627; \u0648\u0627\u0646; \u0648\u0630\u0627\u0643; \u0648\u0643\u0627\u0646; \u0648\u0644\u0643\u0640\u0640\u0646; \u0648\u0644\u0643\u0646\u0640\u0640\u0647; \u064a\u0640\u0640\u0627; \u064a\u0643\u0640\u0640\u0646", "summary": "\u0633\u061b \u0627\u0643\u062b\u0631: \u0632 2196\u2009 \u062c\u0632\u064a\u0629: \u0632\u061b \u062c\u0632\u064a\u0629 \u064a\u0633\u0645\u064a\u0647\u0627: \u0633 2197\u2009 \u064a\u0633\u0645\u0648\u0646\u0647\u0627: \u0632\u061b \u064a\u0633\u0645\u064a\u0647\u0627: \u0633 2198\u2009 \u0645\u0641\u064a\u0636: \u0633\u061b \u0646\u0642\u064a\u0636: \u0632 2199\u2009 \u064a\u0648\u062f\u0648\u0646: \u0632\u061b \u0628\u0648\u0632\u0646: \u0633 2200\u2009 \u064a\u0639\u0637\u064a \u0648\u064a\u0639\u064a\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0636\u0639\u064a\u0641: \u0633\u061b \u064a\u0639\u064a\u0646 \u0630\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0636\u0639\u0641: \u0632 2201\u2009 \u064a\u0643\u0641: \u0633\u061b \u064a\u0643\u0641\u0641: \u0632 2202\u2009 \u062a\u0627\u062f\u064a\u0629: \u0632\u061b \u0628\u0627\u062f\u064a\u0629: \u0633 2203\u2009 \u0639\u0645\u0646 \u0627\u0644: \u0633\u061b \u0644\u0645\u0627: \u0632 2204\u2009 \u0648\u0644\u0645: \u0632\u061b \u2013\u0633 2205\u2009 \u064a\u0643\u0646: \u0632\u061b \u064a\u0645\u0643\u0646: \u0633 2206\u2009 \u064a\u0642\u0631\u0631: \u0633\u061b \u064a\u0642\u062f\u0631: \u0632 2207\u2009 \u064a\u062e\u0627\u0644\u0641\u0647: \u0648\u0644\u0643\u0646\u0640\u0640\u0647 \u0641\u064a\u0645\u0640\u0640\u0627 \u0643\u0627\u0646 \u064a\u0645\u0643\u0646\u0640\u0640\u0647 \u0645\u0640\u0640\u0627 \u0643\u0627\u0646 \u0642\u0640\u0640\u0637 \u0641\u0640\u0640\u064a \u0627\u0627\u0644\u062d\u0633\u0640\u0640\u0627\u0646 2124\u2009 \u0627\u0644\u0646\u0646\u0627: \u0632\u061b \u0627\u0644: \u0633 2125\u2009 \u0641\u064a: \u0632\u061b \u2013\u0633 2126\u2009 \u0627\u0634\u064a\u0627: \u0632\u061b \u0627\u0627\u0644\u0634\u064a\u0627: \u0633 2127\u2009 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u064a: \u0632\u061b \u0627\u0644\u0630\u064a: \u0633 2128\u2009 \u0641\u0627\u0645\u0627: \u0632\u061b \u0641\u0644\u0645\u0627: \u0633 2129\u2009 \u0627\u0644\u0646\u0647 \u0627\u0633\u062a\u0634\u0641\u0639 \u0628\u0643: \u0633\u061b \u0627\u0644\u0646\u064a \u0627\u0633\u062a\u0634\u0646\u0639 \u0628\u0647: \u0632 2130\u2009 \u0641\u064a: \u0633\u061b \u2013\u0632 2131\u2009 \u064a\u0633\u062a\u0631: \u0633\u061b \u064a\u0635\u064a\u0631: \u0632 2132\u2009 \u0627\u0627\u0644\u0643\u0628\u0631:", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8899", "words": "17376", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "72", "author": "Durand-Gu\u00e9dy, David", "title": "The Rib\u0101\u1e6d of Gurj\u012b Kh\u0101t\u016bn (\u201cthe Georgian Lady\u201d): New Data about Women Patrons, Chancery Practices, and Foundation Inscriptions in Seventh/Thirteenth-Century Saljuq Anatolia", "date": "2021", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; anatolia; antalya; caravanserai; century; david; d\u00fcden; d\u012bn; d\u012bn kay; georgian; ghiy\u0101th al; gurj\u012b; gurj\u012b kh\u0101t\u016bn; han; inscription; kay; khusraw; kh\u0101t\u016bn; kkh; k\u0131rkg\u00f6z; patronage; patrons; press; qub\u0101d; redford; rib\u0101\u1e6d; saljuq; seljuk; son; sultan; text; university; women; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u02bfal\u0101\u02be al", "summary": "Al-sitr al-\u02bf\u0101liyya (\u201cthe elevated veil\u201d) is more probable than al-sitr al-gh\u0101liyya (\u201cthe expansive veil\u201d) for a metaphoric address to a high-ranking lady. In Saljuq Iran, the head of the family was al-sul\u1e6d\u0101n al-a\u02bf\u1e93am, while the princes with an appanage (such as Sanjar b. Malik-Sh\u0101h and his nephews in western Iran) were only al-malik al-mu\u02bfa\u1e93\u1e93am.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8902", "words": "9954", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Garc\u00eda-Sanju\u00e1n, Alejandro", "title": "Feeling Bad about Emotional History: The Case of Andalucismo", "date": "2021", "keywords": "andalucismo; andalus; de al; de la; feeling; ferr\u00edn; garc\u00eda; gonz\u00e1lez; hirschkind; history; islam; islamic; negationism; olag\u00fce; past; sanju\u00e1n; spain; spanish", "summary": "E. Gonz\u00e1lez Ferr\u00edn, \u201cHistoriolog\u00eda del Islam y al-Andalus, entre el post-orientalismo y la Historia Oficial,\u201d Imago cr\u00edtica 3 (2011): 71; idem, \u201c711: Historiolog\u00eda de una conquista,\u201d in Al-Andalus y el mundo \u00e1rabe (711\u20132011): Visiones desde el arabismo, 67\u201390 (Granada: Sociedad espa\u00f1ola de estudios \u00e1rabes, 2012), 70. https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/04/10/the-reconquista-of-the-mosque-of-cordoba-spain-catholic-church- https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/04/10/the-reconquista-of-the-mosque-of-cordoba-spain-catholic-church- 316 \u2022 AlejAndro GArc\u00edA-SAnju\u00e1n Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 29 (2021) of the Islamic Iberian past: a few years ago, he expressed support for the most unhinged conspiracy theory in recent Spanish history, according to which the 2004 bombings in Madrid were the work not of al-Qaeda but of the Basque terrorist organization ETA.62 In his book, Hirschkind not only develops an uncritical view of Andalucismo and its intrinsically emotional reading of the past but also legitimizes a rather farfetched conflation of modern Andalusia and al-Andalus.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8903", "words": "27443", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Pregill, Michael E.", "title": "Blurred Boundaries and Novel Normativities: The Jews of Arabia, the Quranic Milieu, and the \u201cIslamic Judaism\u201d of the Middle Ages", "date": "2021", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; approach; boundaries; contemporary; history; hughes; identities; identity; islam; islamic; jews; judaism; michael; muslim; mu\u1e25ammad; period; press; princeton; quran; religion; scholars; studies; study; time; traditions; university; university press; wasserstrom; work; wus\u1e6d\u0101", "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. In Muslim and Jew Hughes raises the subject of \u201cnon-canonical\u201d sources that shed light on early Islam (p. 26), though what he actually seems to mean are references to the Prophet and the rise of Islam found in early non-Muslim sources.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8904", "words": "3397", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "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\u201324 July 2021)", "date": "2021", "keywords": "arabic; century; conference; ottoman; paper; persian; poetry; quran; sufi; university", "summary": "Next, Alaaeldin Mahmoud (American University of the Middle East in Kuwait) presented \u201cRethinking the Art of Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 29 (2021) Conference Report: Pre-Modern Comparative Literary Practice \u2022 325 Composition (Insh\u0101\u02be) in Arabic and Persian Maq\u0101m\u0101t: Bad\u012b\u02bf al Zam\u0101n al-Hamadh\u0101n\u012b and al-\u1e24ar\u012br\u012b in Dialogue with \u1e24am\u012bd al-D\u012bn Balkh\u012b.\u201d (d. 540/1144) treatise al-Mu\u02bfarrab min al-kal\u0101m al-a\u02bfjam\u012b \u02bfal\u0101 \u1e25ur\u016bf al-mu\u02bfjam.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8905", "words": "2368", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Slingluff, Sarah", "title": "Wendy M. K. Shaw. What Is \u201cIslamic\u201d Art? Between Religion and Perception", "date": "2021", "keywords": "art; book; chapter; field; islamic; shaw", "summary": "Yet for Islamic art historians, her willingness to be candid and clear about the supposed prohibition of figural image in Islamic art is welcome. Shaw hopes, she writes, to move the conversation from the production of Islamic art to its reception, empha- sizing commonalities across time and space.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8906", "words": "2321", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Smail, Kader", "title": "Daniella Talmon-Heller. Sacred Place and Sacred Time in the Medieval Islamic Middle East: A Historical Perspective", "date": "2021", "keywords": "book; heller; islamic; rajab; talmon; \u1e25usayn", "summary": "The redemption of \u02bfAlid memory, as recalled by Borrut, seems to have followed the paradigm suggested by Stephen Humphreys: covenant, betrayal, Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 29 (2021) 372 \u2022 Kader Smail and redemption. The first part studies the sanctification of the martyrdom of al-\u1e24usayn, Mu\u1e25ammad\u2019s grandson and \u02bfAl\u012b\u2019s second son, through the construc- 1.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8907", "words": "1355", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Fierro, Maribel", "title": "Ana Labarta (with Carmen Barcel\u00f3). Anillos de la Pen\u00ednsula Ib\u00e9rica, 711\u20131611", "date": "2021", "keywords": "islamic; labarta; rings", "summary": "The medieval religious, legal, and cultural norms related to the use of rings\u2014whatever such norms there were\u2014 are dealt with in an illuminating section that highlights the M\u0101lik\u012b dislike of men\u2019s using gold or iron rings; as mentioned, this prohibition is to be related to the almost complete prevalence of silver rings found in Islamic contexts (p. 51). Were gold rings reused, and would such reuse explain their disappearance?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8908", "words": "3304", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Albarr\u00e1n, Javier", "title": "Alejandro Garc\u00eda Sanju\u00e1n. Yihad: La regulaci\u00f3n de la guerra en la doctrina isl\u00e1mica cl\u00e1sica", "date": "2021", "keywords": "book; example; garc\u00eda; islamic; jih\u0101d; sanju\u00e1n; sources; war", "summary": "Here, Garc\u00eda Sanju\u00e1n studies what he calls \u201csectarian jih\u0101d,\u201d jih\u0101d carried out Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 29 (2021) Alejandro Garc\u00eda Sanju\u00e1n\u2019s Yihad: La regulaci\u00f3n de la guerra \u2022 362 against other Muslims. In addition to outlining his selection of sources, Garc\u00eda Sanju\u00e1n specifies in the introduction how he will address the study of jih\u0101d.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8909", "words": "1717", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Raad, Philip", "title": "The M\u0101 lidhdhat al-\u02bfishq ill\u0101 li-l-maj\u0101n\u012bn; \u1e24iy\u0101kat al-kal\u0101m; and Lima ishtadda \u02bfishq al-ins\u0101n li-h\u0101dh\u0101 al-\u02bf\u0101lam?", "date": "2021", "keywords": "arabic; editors; love; philip; series", "summary": "Weaving Words consists of selections from al-Mu\u1e25assin b. \u02bfAl\u012b al-Tan\u016bkh\u012b\u2019s (d. 384/994) anthologies al-Faraj ba\u02bfd al-shidda (Deliverance Follows Adversity) and Nishw\u0101r al-mu\u1e25\u0101\u1e0dara wa-akhb\u0101r al-mudh\u0101kara (The Table-Talk of a Mesopotamian Judge).3 For selections from the Nishw\u0101r, the editors turned to the printed edition: al-Mu\u1e25assin b. \u02bfAl\u012b al-Tan\u016bkh\u012b, Nishw\u0101r al-mu\u1e25\u0101\u1e0dara wa-akhb\u0101r al-mudh\u0101kara, ed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8910", "words": "4530", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Bori, Caterina", "title": "Konrad Hirschler. A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture: The Library of Ibn \u02bfAbd al-H\u0101d\u012b", "date": "2021", "keywords": "book; hadith; hirschler; h\u0101d\u012b; ibn; ibn \u02bfabd; material; monument; taymiyya; \u02bfabd; \u02bfabd al", "summary": "Finally, Ibn \u02bfAbd al-H\u0101d\u012b\u2019s very personal self-inscription on his books and Hirschler\u2019s skillful grasp of it allow the latter to track the provenance of Ibn \u02bfAbd al-H\u0101d\u012b\u2019s books even though some of them are now scattered around the world. Ibn \u02bfAbd al-H\u0101d\u012b, also known as Ibn Mibrad, was a minor scholarly personality.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8911", "words": "2519", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Bardi, Alberto", "title": "Alexandre M. Roberts. Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch: The Christian Translation Program of Abdallah ibn al-Fadl", "date": "2021", "keywords": "arabic; fadl; greek; ibn; philosophy", "summary": "Undoubtedly, Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 29 (2021) Alexandre M. Roberts\u2019 Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch \u2022 345 Ibn al-Fadl needed what we would consider a scientific and philosophical background to understand Basil and the other authors with whom he engaged for his translations, such as Isaac the Syrian, John Chrysostom, John of Damascus, John of Thessaloniki, and Maximos the Confessor. Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 29 (2021): 343-347 Book Review Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch: The Christian Translation Program of Abdallah ibn al-Fadl, by Alexandre M. Roberts, is a remarkable achievement.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8912", "words": "2596", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Montel, Aur\u00e9lien", "title": "Eneko L\u00f3pez Mart\u00ednez de Marigorta. Mercaderes, Artesanos y ulemas: Las ciudades de las coras de Ilbira y Pechina en \u00e9poca omeya", "date": "2021", "keywords": "almeria; author; book; century; pechina", "summary": "The book is dedicated to the study of the cities of southeastern al-Andalus, nominally the k\u016bras (\u201cprovinces\u201d) of Elvira and Pechina. Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 29 (2021): 338-342 Book Review Because the history of al-Andalus has mostly been written from a capital-centered perspective, the historical trajectory of the provinces has elicited only slight historiographical interest.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8913", "words": "4050", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Ballest\u00edn, Xavier", "title": "Juli\u00e1n M. Ortega Ortega. La conquista isl\u00e1mica de la Pen\u00ednsula Ib\u00e9rica: Una perspectiva arqueol\u00f3gica", "date": "2021", "keywords": "andalus; book; chapter; conquest; culture; islamic; material; ortega; sources", "summary": "The chapters\u2019 titles are quite straightforward and explanatory, even for a readership not used to the history of al-Andalus or the High Middle Ages: chapter 1 (pp. 25\u201335), \u201c(De)limiting the scope of the sources\u201d; chapter 2 Juli\u00e1n M. Ortega Ortega. Rather, Ortega has used the archaeological remains of material culture to detect and understand the Islamic conquest and the distinctive appearance of al-Andalus.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-8915", "words": "197070", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Borrut, Antoine; Gordon, Matthew; Vacca, Alison", "title": "Full Issue", "date": "2021", "keywords": "a. al; ab\u016b al; academic; account; adam; ages; ahl al; ahmad al; akhb\u0101r al; al servicio; al \u00e1ndalus; al-\u02bfar\u016bs\u012b al; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; alexander; all\u0101h al; analysis; anatolia; andalus; antioch; antiquity; an\u1e6d\u0101k\u012b; appears; approach; arabe; arabic; aristotelian; aristotle; armenian; article; astrology; attribution; author; a\u1e25k\u0101m al; a\u1e25mad al; b. al; basis; bayn al; ba\u02bfd al; ba\u1e25r al; bi\u1e25\u0101r al; book; boundaries; brill; byzantine; b\u0101l\u012bn\u0101s al; caliph al; cambridge; case; centuries; century; chapter; christian; christopher; city; commentary; conquest; contemporary; context; corpus; creation; culture; dast\u016br al; daughter; david; dawla; de al; de la; death; der; des; development; dhakh\u012brat al; dh\u016b al; digraph; discourse; discussion; dizbar al; durr al; d\u00fcden; d\u0101r al; d\u012bn al; early; east; edinburgh; end; et al; eve; evidence; example; fact; fakhr al; father; fay\u1e0d al; ferr\u00edn; field; fol; following; fols; form; fur\u0101t al; garc\u00eda; gender; ghiy\u0101th al; gh\u0101yat al; god; gonz\u00e1lez; good; great; greek; group; gurj\u012b; hand; hermes; hermetica; hirmis al; hirschkind; histoire; history; holy; hughes; h\u0101d\u012b; h\u0101shim al; i. al; ibid; ibn al; ibr\u0101h\u012bm al; identities; identity; ikhw\u0101n al; ilz\u0101m al; imam al; im\u0101m\u012b; information; inscription; interpretation; introduction; islamic; i\u1e25y\u0101\u02be al; jal\u0101l al; james; jam\u0101\u02bfat al; jerusalem; jews; jih\u0101d; journal; judaism; j\u0101mi\u02bf al; kal\u0101m al; kanz al; kashf al; kay; khaw\u0101\u1e63\u1e63 al; khusraw; kh\u0101t\u016bn; king; kit\u0101b al; knowledge; kostandin; kutub al; lady; language; layth al; left; leiden; les; lewon; library; life; literature; london; m. al; magic; majma\u02bf al; maktabat al; malik al; manhaj al; manuscript; mariun; markaz al; maslama al; material; ma\u02bfshar al; ma\u02bf\u0101n\u012b al; ma\u1e25akk\u0101t al; ma\u1e6dba\u02bfat al; meaning; medieval; michael; middle; min al; mugh\u012bth al; murta\u1e0d\u0101 al; mur\u016bj al; muslim; mu\u02beassasat al; mu\u1e25ammad al; mu\u1e25sin al; nahj al; nah\u1e0da al; narrative; nashr al; nature; negationism; new; notes; n\u0101\u1e63ir al; n\u016br al; occult; original; origins; ortega; oxford; paris; past; patriarch; people; period; persian; perspective; pilgrimage; place; point; practice; present; press; princeton; prophet; psah; pseudo; queen; question; quranic; qur\u02be\u0101n al; q\u0101sim al; raw\u1e0d al; ra\u1e25m\u0101n al; reading; reads; redford; reference; religion; research; review; rib; ri\u1e0d\u0101 al; rutbat al; r\u016b\u1e25\u0101niyy\u0101t al; saif; saljuq; sanju\u00e1n; saw\u0101\u1e6di\u02bf al; sayf al; sa\u02bf\u012bd al; scholars; scholarship; sciences; second; shams al; shar\u0101s\u012bm al; shaykh al; sirr al; sir\u0101j al; sobre al; social; son; sources; spanish; spelling; state; sts; studies; study; subject; sultan; sul\u1e6d\u0101n al; s\u016brat al; tafs\u012br al; ta\u02beth\u012br al; tenth; terms; text; things; time; title; tradition; translation; tur\u0101th al; understanding; university; university press; use; van; vol; wa al; wasserstrom; way; women; words; work; world; writing; wus\u1e6d\u0101; ya\u02bfq\u016bb al; years; york; \u0121\u0101yat al; \u02bfabd al; \u02bfal\u0101\u02be al; \u02bfal\u012b al; \u02bfilal al; \u02bfilm al; \u02bfim\u0101d al; \u02bfishq al; \u02bfizz al; \u02bfi\u1e63mat al; \u02bfuy\u016bn al; \u0627\u0644\u0640\u0640\u0649; \u0628\u0640\u0640\u0644; \u0630\u0644\u0640\u0640\u0643; \u0632 al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; \u0641\u0640\u0640\u064a; \u0643\u0627\u0646; \u0644\u0640\u0640\u0647; \u0645\u0640\u0640\u0627; \u0645\u0640\u0640\u0646; \u0647\u0640\u0640\u0630\u0627; \u0648\u0627\u0644; \u0648\u0643\u0627\u0646; \u1e25asan al; \u1e25ayy\u0101n al; \u1e25iy\u0101kat al; \u1e25\u0101tim al; \u1e63afwat al; \u1e6dabaq\u0101t al; \u1e6dib\u0101\u02bf al", "summary": "A\u1e25mad al-W\u0101\u1e25id\u012b (d. 468/1076), Tafs\u012br al-bas\u012b\u1e6d (Riyadh: Wiz\u0101rat al-Ta\u02bfl\u012bm al-\u02bfA\u0304l\u012b, 2010), 6:281; al-R\u0101z\u012b, al-Tafs\u012br al-kab\u012br, 9:166. For similar passages in Sunni exegeses of the time, see, e.g., al-W\u0101\u1e25id\u012b, Tafs\u012br al-bas\u012b\u1e6d, 6:282; al-R\u0101z\u012b, al-Tafs\u012br al-kab\u012br, 9:167.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-9022", "words": "14032", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Santi, Aila", "title": "The Mosque\u2012D\u0101r al-Im\u0101ra Complex at \u02bfAnjar: Preliminary Notes from a Multi-layered Exploration of Ceremonial Spaces in the Marw\u0101nid Period", "date": "2022", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; art; building; complex; early; hall; im\u0101ra; islamic; mih\u0323r\u0101b; mosque; mosque\u2012d\u0101r al; new; palace; prayer; press; santi; site; umayyad; university; wall; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u02bfanjar", "summary": "In most mad\u012bnas (and normally in qa\u1e63rs), the mosques are embedded in substantial palatine cities (as in Qa\u1e63r al-\u1e24ayr al-Sharq\u012b, the citadel of \u02bfAmm\u0101n, or Mshatta); in others, such as \u02bfAqaba and Ramla, the case of a palace by the qibla side of the mosque has yet to be made by archaeology. Genequand, D. \u201cLes d\u00e9cors en stuc du ba\u0302timent E \u00e0 Qa\u1e63r al-\u1e24ayr al-Sharq\u012b.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-9040", "words": "20407", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Huseini, Said Reza", "title": "The Rebellion of al-\u1e24\u0101rith b. Surayj (116\u201328/734\u201346): The Local Perspective", "date": "2022", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; arab; b. al; bactrian; balkh; black; converts; documents; d\u0101r al; islam; islamic; jizya; khurasan; muslim; press; qagh\u0101n; rebellion; region; revolt; rulers; studies; surayj; ta\u02ber\u012bkh; t\u00fcrgesh; umayyad; university; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u02bfabd al; \u1e25\u0101rith; \u1e25\u0101rith b.; \u1e6dabar\u012b", "summary": "\u201cJahm b. \u1e62afw\u0101n wa-mak\u0101natuhu f\u012b al-fikr al-isl\u0101m\u012b.\u201d E. Yarshater, updated April 10, 2012, https://iranicaonline.org/articles/jahm-b-safwan; Kh. al-\u02bfUl\u0101, \u201cJahm b. \u1e62afw\u0101n wa-mak\u0101natuhu f\u012b al-fikr al-isl\u0101m\u012b\u201d (MA thesis, Baghdad University, 1965). 23.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-9044", "words": "13570", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Hagemann, Hannah-Lena", "title": "Was Mu\u1e6darrif b. al-Mugh\u012bra al-Thaqaf\u012b a Kh\u0101rijite? Rebellion in the Early Marw\u0101nid Period", "date": "2022", "keywords": "account; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; ash\u02bfath; b. al; bal\u0101dhur\u012b; ibn al; islamic; kh\u0101rijism; kh\u0101rijite; mugh\u012bra al; mu\u1e6darrif; rebellion; revolt; shab\u012bb; ta\u02ber\u012bkh; thaqaf\u012b; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u02bfabd al; \u02bfurwa; \u1e25ajj\u0101j; \u1e6dabar\u012b", "summary": "446 \u2022 HannaH-Lena Hagemann Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 30 (2022) Was Mu\u1e6darrif b. al-Mugh\u012bra al-Thaqaf\u012b a Kh\u0101rijite? Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 30 (2022) Was Mu\u1e6darrif b. al-Mugh\u012bra al-Thaqaf\u012b a Kh\u0101rijite?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-9320", "words": "16933", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Lambourn, Elizabeth", "title": "Sweet Water on the Sea Route to China: Watering Stops and Torpedo-Jar Capacities in Long-Distance Indian Ocean Sailing", "date": "2022", "keywords": "akhb\u0101r; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; arabic; belitung; capacity; century; china; indian; jars; lambourn; liters; maritime; new; ocean; phanom; route; sea; ship; sources; storage; surin; torpedo; torpedo jars; trade; university; vessels; water; wreck; wus\u1e6d\u0101", "summary": "Working from the 2021 publication of the volumetric capacity of a group of so-called torpedo jars excavated in Thailand, this article proposes some preliminary quantitative estimates of the volume of freshwater, and thus the number of water jars, required on board vessels at the time. Figure 3: Schlingloff\u2019s interpretation of the Ajanta ship image with storage vessels identified as water jars.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-9328", "words": "10760", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "\u015eim\u015fek, Ay\u015feg\u00fcl", "title": "Portrait of a Jurist between Obedience and Rebellion: The Case of Ab\u016b \u1e24an\u012bfa", "date": "2022", "keywords": "ab\u016b; ab\u016b al; ab\u016b \u1e25an\u012bfa; b. al; fiqh; ibn; ibr\u0101h\u012bm; ja\u1e63\u1e63\u0101\u1e63; mu\u1e25ammad; rebellion; support; zayd; \u02bfabd; \u02bfal\u012b; \u1e25an\u012bfa", "summary": "\u201d47 Mu\u1e25ammad b. \u02bfAbd All\u0101h, also known as al-Nafs al-Zakiyya (\u201cthe pure soul\u201d),48 revolted in Medina in 145/76249 and was soon followed in rebellion by his brother Ibr\u0101h\u012bm in Basra.50 Ab\u016b al-Faraj al-I\u1e63fah\u0101n\u012b, Maq\u0101til al-T\u0323alibiyy\u012bn, ed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-9331", "words": "19597", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Stokes, Phillip W.", "title": "Key to the Kingdom: Variation as a Key to Understanding the Arabic Gospel Manuscripts", "date": "2023", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br; arabic; case; data; families; family; features; gospel; kashouh; kingdom; manuscripts; patterns; sar; stokes; study; tanw\u012bn; text; variation; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u062a \u062a", "summary": "Methodology, Manuscripts, and Manuscript Families 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\u2019s classification as a starting point and reference other proposals as relevant to the data presented below.13 As noted earlier (in footnote 9), most studies that have explored the relationships between Arabic Gospel manuscripts have focused on lexical similarities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-9394", "words": "15800", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Grant, Philip", "title": "Entangled Symbols: Silk and the Material Semiosis of the Zanj Rebellion (869\u201383)", "date": "2022", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; century; cloth; history; honor; islamic; material; muwaffaq; mu\u1e25ammad; new; object; philip; press; production; rebellion; rebels; revolt; robes; silk; silk robes; ta\u02ber\u012bkh; things; university; world; wus\u1e6d\u0101; zanj; \u02bfabbasid; \u02bfal\u012b; \u1e6dabar\u012b", "summary": "\u201cThis was the most humiliating stratagem ever employed against the profligate,\u201d al-\u1e6cabar\u012b reports, as other Zanj wished to be treated likewise, and a number rushed to go over to al-Muwaffaq. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which allows users to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the original authors and source. mailto:philipagrant%40gmail.com?subject= 574 \u2022 PhiliP Grant Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 30 (2022) when troops from two Zanj galleys sought safe conduct (am\u0101n) for themselves and their equipment, boats, and sailors, he \u201cordered that brocade robes of honour (khila\u02bf d\u012bb\u0101j)1 and jewel-bedecked belts and other gifts\u201d be given to them, including \u201crobes of red silk and white garments\u201d (khila\u02bf min khila\u02bf al-\u1e25ar\u012br al-a\u1e25mar wa-l-thiy\u0101b al-bay\u1e0d); their sympathy thus won, the coopted rebels were posted in a place where their former comrades could see them.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-9499", "words": "8689", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Dar, Alon", "title": "Governors and Provincial Elites in Umayyad Egypt: A Case Study of One \u201cRebellion\u201d (709\u201310 CE)", "date": "2022", "keywords": "ban\u016b; caliph; egypt; elites; fahm; governor; ibn; islamic; kind\u012b; province; qurra; umayyad; university; \u02bfabd al", "summary": "On this person, see al-Maqr\u012bz\u012b, Kit\u0101b al-Muqaff\u0101 al-kab\u012br, ed. Kit\u0101b al-Muqaff\u0101 al-kab\u012br.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-9651", "words": "29947", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Roohi, Ehsan", "title": "A Form-Critical Analysis of the al-Raj\u012b\u02bf and Bi\u02ber Ma\u02bf\u016bna Stories: Tribal, Ideological, and Legal Incentives behind the Transmission of the Prophet\u2019s Biography", "date": "2022", "keywords": "accounts; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; analysis; arafat; b. al; ban\u016b; ban\u016b al; beirut; bi\u02ber; bi\u02ber ma\u02bf\u016bna; brill; criticism; crucifixion; d\u0101r al; early; et al; form; history; ibn; ibn al; islam; islamic; khubayb; kit\u0101b al; leiden; magh\u0101z\u012b; ma\u02bf\u016bna; medina; mu\u1e25ammad; mu\u1e25ammad al; narratives; new; press; prophet; raj\u012b\u02bf; sources; stories; story; studies; s\u012bra; university; wus\u1e6d\u0101; w\u0101qid\u012b; \u02bfabd al; \u02bfamr b.", "summary": "According to some accounts, these words (that occur in the sources with certain variants) were allegedly once part of the Qur\u02be\u0101nic text, but were eventually abrogated; see al-W\u0101qid\u012b, al-Magh\u0101z\u012b, 1:350; Ibn Sa\u02bfd, al-\u1e6cabaq\u0101t al-kubr\u0101, ed. However, the fact that the curses of these martyrs (All\u0101humma a\u1e25\u1e63ihim \u02bfadadan \u2026) are almost identical in diction signifies a stronger connection between these stories than the mere utilization of the theme of al-du\u02bf\u0101\u02be al-ma\u1e93l\u016bm.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-9917", "words": "33085", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "80", "author": "Hendrickson, Jocelyn", "title": "Fatw\u0101s on Jih\u0101d from Premodern Morocco: Introduction and Critical Edition of an Excerpt from al-Zayy\u0101t\u012b\u2019s Selected Jewels", "date": "2023", "keywords": "ab\u016b al; adab al; ahl al; al-\u02bfarab\u012b al; al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; all\u0101h al; arabic; a\u1e25mad al; b. al; basis; beirut; bnrm; b\u0101b al; century; christian; compilation; de al; d\u0101r al; d\u012bn al; et al; fatw\u0101s; fat\u0101w\u0101 al; fez; fifteenth; f\u0101s\u012b; gharb al; group; hendrickson; history; ibn al; islamic; jaw\u0101hir al; jewels; jih\u0101d; jocelyn; jurist; j\u0101mi\u02bf al; kit\u0101b al; kulliyyat al; l-\u02bful\u016bm al; library; maghrib al; manuscripts; markaz al; mediterranean; min al; mi\u02bfy\u0101r al; morocco; muqaddim\u0101t al; muslim; mu\u1e25ammad al; m\u0101lik\u012b; nashr al; naw\u0101zil al; opinions; period; portuguese; press; property; qarn al; question; qur\u02be\u0101n; rabat; read; rushd al; scholars; second; shajarat al; shu\u02be\u016bn al; shu\u02bfayb al; sources; sunan al; tas\u016bl\u012b; territory; text; tur\u0101th al; university; vols; wazz\u0101n\u012b; wiz\u0101rat al; wus\u1e6d\u0101; zayy\u0101t\u012b; \u02bfabd al; \u02bfal\u012b al; \u0623\u0651\u0646; \u0625\u0649\u0644; \u0627\u0645\u0644\u0633\u0640\u0640\u0644\u0645\u0646; \u0627\u064b\u0644; \u0639\u0644\u0640\u0640\u0649; \u0639\u0644\u0649; \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0640\u0640\u0647; \u0645\u0640\u0640\u0627; \u0645\u0640\u0640\u0646; \u0647\u0644\u0644\u0627; \u0648\u0627\u064b\u0644; \u1e25ad\u012bth; \u1e25asan al", "summary": "The full title of his exegesis of the Qur\u02be\u0101n is al-J\u0101mi\u02bf al-mu\u1e25arrar al-waj\u012bz f\u012b tafs\u012br al-Kit\u0101b al-\u02bfAz\u012bz, better known as Tafs\u012br Ibn \u02bfA\u1e6diyya. Al-Naw\u0101zil al-\u1e63ughr\u0101, al-musamm\u0101 al-Mina\u1e25 al-s\u0101miya f\u012b al-naw\u0101zil al-fiqhiyya.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-9935", "words": "18421", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Sijpesteijn, Petra M.", "title": "Closing Ranks: Discipline and Loyalty in the Umayyad Army", "date": "2022", "keywords": "al-\u02bfu\u1e63\u016br al; ans\u0101b; b. al; bal\u0101dhur\u012b; caliph; empire; governor; history; ibid; ibn al; iraq; islamic; j\u0101r\u016bd; malik; muhallab; power; press; revolt; soldiers; ta\u02ber\u012bkh; troops; umayyad; university; wus\u1e6d\u0101; \u02bfabd al; \u1e25ajj\u0101j", "summary": "The troops take fierce exception, and when al-\u1e24ajj\u0101j refuses to bend, prominent leaders such as al-Hudhayl b. \u02bfImr\u0101n b. al-Fu\u1e0dayl al-Burjum\u012b (d. 76/695),15 \u02bfAbd All\u0101h b. \u1e24ak\u012bm b. Ziy\u0101d al-Muj\u0101shi\u02bf\u012b (d. 76/695), and Qutayba b. Muslim (d. 96/715)16 begin to work with \u02bfAbd All\u0101h b. al-J\u0101r\u016bd to arrange al-\u1e24ajj\u0101j\u2019s removal as governor of Iraq.17 Initially, the mutineers seem to be winning. For him, see Crone, Slaves, 163. 490 \u2022 Petra M. SijPeSteijn Al-\u02bfU\u1e63\u016br al-Wus\u1e6d\u0101 30 (2022) intervenes with the caliph on behalf of al-Gha\u1e0db\u0101n b. al-Qaba\u02bfthar\u0101;101 the caliph grants al-Gha\u1e0db\u0101n an am\u0101n, which causes al-\u1e24ajj\u0101j to release him.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "alusur-9995", "words": "4045", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Sijpesteijn, Petra M.; Dar, Alon", "title": "Introduction: Acts of Rebellion and Revolt in the Early Islamic Caliphate", "date": "2022", "keywords": "case; dar; medieval; rebellions; rebels; revolt; sijpesteijn", "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 The threat and practice of violence were part of this communication, and negotiations could turn into full-fledged disruptive and brutal rebellions.6 Therefore, the contributions to this dossier explore the dynamics between individuals, groups, and institutions that underpinned certain rebellions and highlight what these can tell us about the social and political structures of the caliphate.", "mime": "application/pdf"}]