Arabic humanities, islamic thought essays in honor of Everett K. Rowson
From breath to soul: the Quranic word Ruḥ and its (mis)interpretations / Sarra Tlili -- The wiles of women, the guile of men: re-reading kayd in Surat Yusuf / Zainab Mahmood -- Some Ḥanbali views on secret marriage / Susan A. Spectorsky -- Anta ana wa-ana minka ("You are me, and I am from you&q...
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Leiden, Boston
Brill
2017
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| Schriftenreihe: | Islamic history and civilization
volume 141 |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | From breath to soul: the Quranic word Ruḥ and its (mis)interpretations / Sarra Tlili -- The wiles of women, the guile of men: re-reading kayd in Surat Yusuf / Zainab Mahmood -- Some Ḥanbali views on secret marriage / Susan A. Spectorsky -- Anta ana wa-ana minka ("You are me, and I am from you"): a Quasi-Nuʻayri fragment on the intellect in the early Ismaʻili treatise Kitab Taʼwil ḥuruf al-muʻjam / David Hollenberg -- The Crucified speaks: Ali ibn al-Jahm on His day-long exposure at Nishapur / David Larsen -- Man Is not the only speaking animal: thresholds and idiom in al-Jaḥiẓ / Jeannie Miller -- Beyond the known limits: Ibn Dawud al-Iṣfahani's chapter on "intermedial" poetry / Lara Harb -- Foul whisperings: madness and poetry in Arabic literary history / Geert Jan van Gelder -- Music for the body, music for the soul / Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt -- Zoroaster's many languages / Kevin van Bladel -- Song and punishment / Dwight F. Reynolds -- Fathers and husbands / Adam Talib -- Writing the past: ancient Egypt through the lens of medieval Islamic thought / Tara Stephan -- "The Mosul stand-up, or a riff on a stiff": al-Hamadhani's Maqama of Mosul / Michael Cooperson -- An edition of al-Hamadhani's al-Maqama al-Mawiliyya / Bilal Orfali -- Sucker of one's mother's clitoris: a study of a classical Arabic insult / John Nawas -- Commentators, collators, and copyists: interpreting manuscript variation in the exordium of al-Ḥariri's Maqamat / Matthew L. Keegan -- Going the extra mayl: two texts on medieval dynamics in the Islamic world / Jon McGinnis -- "Extremely beautiful and extremely long": al-Qiraʻi's exuberant letter from the year 761/1360 / Thomas Bauer -- Enterprising sultans and the Doge of Venice: political culture and the patronage of science and philosophy in the fifteenth-century Mediterranean / Ali Humayun Akhtar -- Contextualizing Muḥammad ʻAbduh's views on the family, marriage, and divorce / Kenneth M. Cuno -- "Go directly home with decorum": conduct books for Egypt's young, ca. 1912 / Marilyn Booth -- When Jews attack: toward a social psychology of inter-communal violence in Yemen / Mark S. Wagner -- Scope for comparatism: internationalist and surrealist resonances in Idwar al-Kharraʼ's resistant literary modernity / Hala Halim -- Securing consent: Islamic development and the movement to transform Egypt / James Toth This volume brings together studies that explore the richness of the Arabic literary tradition and of Islamic intellectual life, from the beginnings of Islam to the present. The contributors cover an unusually wide range of subjects, including such topics as guile in the Qur'an, marriage in Islamic law, early esoterica, commentaries on al-?ariri?s 'Maqamat', Hellenistic philosophy in Arabic, medieval music and song, scurrilous poetry, Arabic rhetoric, cursing, the modern social and legal history of the Middle East, al-Kharrat?s modernist project, and contemporary Islamic thought and responses to it. 00The volume?s range reflects the enormous breadth of Everett Rowson?s scholarship and his impact over a lifetime of publishing, editing, teaching, and mentoring in the many fields that constitute the Arabic humanities and Islamic thought |
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| Beschreibung: | XXIX, 514 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9004343245 90-04-34324-5 9789004343245 978-90-04-34324-5 |