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. MEM has two primary goals. The first is to increase the representation of medieval scholarship at scholarly meetings by co-sponsoring panels. The second is to foster communication among individuals and organizations with an interest in the study of the medieval Middle East. Book Review Editors Jocelyn Hendrickson, University of Alberta Han Hsien Liew, Arizona State University Editorial Board, Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā Manan Ahmed, Columbia University Sean Anthony, The Ohio State University Mushegh Asatryan, University of Calgary Hannah Barker, Arizona State University Francesca Bellino, Università di Napoli “L’Orientale” Evrim Binbaş, Universität Bonn Amina Elbendary, The American University in Cairo Corisande Fenwick, University College London Eve Krakowski, Princeton University Josef Meri, Hamad Bin Khalifa University Oya Pancaroğlu, Boğaziçi University Michael Pifer, University of Michigan Walid Salih, University of Toronto Vanessa Van Renterghem, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Paris) Board of Directors, Middle East Medievalists 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), Universität 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/ index.php/alusur/index Copyright and Permissions This is an open access journal distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCom- mercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which allows users to copy & distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, for noncommercial purposes only, & only so long as attribution is given to the original authors and source. To view a copy of this license, visit: http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/alusur/index https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/alusur/index https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/alusur/about/submissions Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 32 (2024) Table of Contents MEM Awards Recipient of the 2023 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award Carole Hillenbrand ................................................................................................................................................... v–ix Articles “Muḥammad b. Khalaf Wakīʿ (m. 306/918), ou le désamour de Bagdad” Mathieu Tillier ........................................................................................................................................................ 1–21 “From Trial (Miḥna) to Tribulation (Balāʾ): A New Look at Ghulām Khalīl’s (d. 275/888) Inquisition against the Sufis” Antonio Musto ........................................................................................................................................................ 22-50 “Will I Be Happy, Will I Be Rich? Three Lot Books (Qurʿas) from the Library of Qāniṣawh al-Muḥammadī” Kristof D’hulster ................................................................................................................................................... 51-141 “The Documentary Depth of Hadith Transmission: Audition Attendance Lists” Said Aljoumani & Benedikt Reier .................................................................................................................... 142-164 “La khuṭba d’Abū Ḥamza al-Shārī: soulèvement ibāḍite et rhétorique de la contestation en péninsule Arabique au second siècle de l’Islam. Traduction commentée d’une version inédite du sermon” Enki Baptiste ...................................................................................................................................................... 165-249 “Learning Middle Armenian at the Court of Meḥmed II: Language, Knowledge, and Power before the Imperial Rise of Ottoman Turkish” Samet Budak & Michael Pifer ........................................................................................................................... 250-339 “Unlearning the Aesthetics of Malicious Joy” Adam Talib .......................................................................................................................................................... 340-360 “Mail-Order Mihrabs: Collaborative Labor in the Design of Tile Revetments in Iran and the Ottoman Empire” Patricia Blessing ................................................................................................................................................. 361-402 “Dark Deeds, Broken Bodies: Medieval Islamic Narratives of Violence against Corpses” Taryn Marashi .................................................................................................................................................... 403-436 “‘Out of Love for You’: Orienting Rūs Expressions of Emotion in Arabic Geography” Tonicha Mae Upham ......................................................................................................................................... 437-463 Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 32 (2024) Roundtable on the Global Middle Ages “Global Microhistories and the Object Archive” Finbarr Barry Flood .......................................................................................................................................... 464-470 “The Intricate World and the Mundane University” Rachel Schine ..................................................................................................................................................... 471-478 “The Global Middle Ages between Empire and Neolibralism” Anthony Kaldellis .............................................................................................................................................. 479-483 “Turning to Another Possible Millennium” Nicholas S. M. Matheou .................................................................................................................................... 484-489 “The Problem of the Global Middle Ages : A View from the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine” Ahmed Ragab ..................................................................................................................................................... 490-494 “Defining Global Interconnectedness: The Central Role of the Medieval Middle East in Afro-Eurasian Networks” Hyunhee Park ..................................................................................................................................................... 495-499 “The Tides of Global History” Hussein Fancy .................................................................................................................................................... 500-502 “Globalizing the Medieval: A Methodology” Sarah Davis-Secord ........................................................................................................................................... 503-510 “The Global Middle Ages, Political History, and Democracy” Kaveh Hemmat .................................................................................................................................................. 511-516 Pedagogy Files “Medieval Georgian Coinage: A Cross-Cultural Introduction” Stephen H. Rapp, Jr. .......................................................................................................................................... 517-576 Conference Reports Report on Ērān: Central and West Asia in the First Millennium CE Research Forum Daniel Alford ....................................................................................................................................................... 577-583 Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 32 (2024) Report on Interdisciplinary Sources & Methods for the Study of Pre-Archival Societies: The Case of Baghdad Nassima Neggaz & Vanessa Van Renterghem ............................................................................................... 584-593 Report on Military Foundations, Ribāṭs, and Urbanization Stefan Heidemann, Kurt Franz, & Katharina Mewes .................................................................................... 594-597 Book Reviews Review of Abdulrahman Al Salimi and Wilferd Madelung, eds, Ibāḍī Texts from the 2nd/8th Century and Abdulrahman Al Salimi, ed., Ibadi Texts in Oman from the 3rd/9th Century Enki Baptiste ....................................................................................................................................................... 598-612 Review of ʿAbd Allāh Ibn al-Muʿtazz, In Deadly Embrace: Arabic Hunting Poems, ed. and trans. James E. Montgomery Hacı Osman Gündüz ........................................................................................................................................... 613-615 Review of Mehdi Ghouirgate, Les Empires berbères: constructions et déconstructions d’un objet historiographique Ana Struillou ........................................................................................................................................................ 616-618