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. 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. 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To view a copy of this license, visit: http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 30 (2022) TABLE OF CONTENTS (CONT.) Table of Contents MEM Awards Recipient of the 2021 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award Doris Behrens-Abouseif ......................................................................................................................................... iv–ix Articles “The Poetics of the Sufi Carnival: The Rogue Lyrics (Qalandariyyāt) as Heterotopic Countergenre(s)” Matthew Thomas Miller ........................................................................................................................................ 1–46 “The Long Arm of the Provincial Law: A Custody Battle in a Qāḍī Petition from the Medieval Fayyūm” Lev Weitz ................................................................................................................................................................ 47–78 “The Umayyad and Early Abbasid Inscriptions in the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina” Harry Munt .......................................................................................................................................................... 79–147 “Sweet Water on the Sea Route to China: Watering Stops and Torpedo-Jar Capacities in Long- Distance Indian Ocean Sailing” Elizabeth Lambourn .......................................................................................................................................... 148–182 “Dating Ibn Aʿtham’s History: Of Persian Manuscripts, Obscure Biographies, and Incomplete Isnāds” Andrew McLaren ............................................................................................................................................... 183–234 “The Mosque‒Dār al-Imāra Complex at ʿAnjar: Preliminary Notes from a Multi-layered Exploration of Ceremonial Spaces in the Marwānid Period” Aila Santi ............................................................................................................................................................. 235–266 “A Form-Critical Analysis of the al-Rajīʿ and Biʾr Maʿūna Stories: Tribal, Ideological, and Legal Incentives behind the Transmission of the Prophet’s Biography” Ehsan Roohi ....................................................................................................................................................... 267–319 “Translating Race in the Islamic Studies Classroom” Rachel Schine ..................................................................................................................................................... 320–383 “‘The ʿAbbās after Whom Those Who Rule in Baghdad Are Named’: Al-ʿAbbās b. al-Walīd in Late Antique Accounts of the Marwānids and the Third Fitna” Leone Pecorini Goodall ..................................................................................................................................... 384–434 Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 30 (2022) TABLE OF CONTENTS (CONT.) Special Dossier: Acts of Rebellion and Revolt in the Early Islamic Caliphate Guest Edited by Alon Dar & Petra M. Sijpesteijn “Introduction” Alon Dar and Petra M. Sijpesteijn ................................................................................................................... 436–444 “Was Muṭarrif b. al-Mughīra al-Thaqafī a Khārijite? Rebellion in the Early Marwānid Period” Hannah-Lena Hagemann ................................................................................................................................. 445–468 “Closing Ranks: Discipline and Loyalty in the Umayyad Army” Petra M. Sijpesteijn .......................................................................................................................................... 469–499 “Governors and Provincial Elites in Umayyad Egypt: A Case Study of One ‘Rebellion’ (709–10 CE)” Alon Dar .............................................................................................................................................................. 500–515 “The Rebellion of al-Ḥārith b. Surayj (116–28/734–46): The Local Perspective” Said Reza Huseini .............................................................................................................................................. 516–553 “Portrait of a Jurist between Obedience and Rebellion: The Case of Abū Ḥanīfa” Ayşegül Şimşek .................................................................................................................................................. 554–572 “Entangled Symbols: Silk and the Material Semiosis of the Zanj Rebellion (869–83)” Philip Grant ........................................................................................................................................................ 573–602 Book Reviews Review of Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ, Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice, edited by Michael Fishbein; translated by Michael Fishbein and James E. Montgomery. Theodore S. Beers .............................................................................................................................................. 603–611 Review of The Aghlabids and Their Neighbors: Art and Material Culture in Ninth-Century North Africa, edited by Glaire D. Anderson, Corisande Fenwick, and Mariam Rosser-Owen, with Sihem Lamine. Matthew S. Gordon ............................................................................................................................................ 612–616 Review of Javier Albarrán Iruela, Ejércitos benditos. Yihad y memoria en al-Andalus (siglos X-XIII). Abigail Krasner Balbale ..................................................................................................................................... 617–621 Review of Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period: An Anthology, edited and translated by James E. Lindsay and Suleiman A. Mourad. Bogdan C. Smarandache.................................................................................................................................... 622–630 Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 30 (2022) Review of Monica Balda-Tillier, Histoires d’amour et de mort: le précis de martyrs de l’amour de Muġulṭāy (m. 1361). Jonathan Lawrence ............................................................................................................................................ 631–639 Review of Simon O’Meara, The Kaʿba Orientations: Readings in Islam’s Ancient House. Kader Smail ......................................................................................................................................................... 640–643 Review of Tahera Qutbuddin, Arabic Oration: Art and Function. Pamela Klasova ................................................................................................................................................... 644–653 Conference Report Report on Rethinking the Wearable in the Middle Ages (Bard Graduate Center, 28-29 April 2022) Ellen Enderle ...................................................................................................................................................... 654–661