The lineaments of Islam : studies in honor of Fred McGraw Donner

Author(s)

• Cobb, Paul Michael

Bibliographic Information

The lineaments of Islam : studies in honor of Fred McGraw Donner

edited by Paul M. Cobb

（Islamic history and civilization, studies and texts ; v. 95）

Brill, 2012

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In honor of Fred M. Donner's long and distinguished career as one of the foremost interpreters of early Islam, this volume collects more than a dozen original studies by his students. They range over a wide array of sub-fields in Islamic history and Islamic studies, including early history, historiography, Islamic law, religious studies, Qur'anic studies and Islamic archaeology. The book also includes a bibliography of Donner's works and a biographical sketch of sorts. Taken together, these essays are a clear testament to Donner's wide-ranging and continuing impact on the field. Contributors include: Sean W. Anthony, Jonathan A. C. Brown, David Cook, Vaness De Gifis, Asa Eger, Tracy Hoffman, Marion H. Katz, Kathryn M. Kueny, Shari Lowin, Jens Scheiner, Robert Schick, Stuart Sears, Elizabeth Urban, Tasha Vorderstrasse, Brannon Wheeler, and Hayrettin Yucesoy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction: Narratives of Fred McGraw Donner, Paul M. Cobb Bibliography of the Works of Fred McGraw Donner PART ONE: HISTORY AND SOCIETY Who was the Shepherd of Damascus? The Enigma of Jewish and Messianist Responses to the Islamic Conquests in Marwanid Syria and Mesopotomia, Sean W. Anthony Political Anarchism, Dissent, and Marginal Groups in the Early Ninth Century: The Sufis of the Mu'tazila Revisited, Hayrettin Yucesoy Scholars and Charlatans on the Baghdad-Khurasan Circuit from the Ninth to the Eleventh Centuries, Jonathan A. C. Brown Were the Isma'ili Assassins the First Suicide Attackers? An Examination of Their Recorded Assassinations, David Cook PART TWO: HISTORIOGRAPHY The Identity Crisis of Abu Bakra: Mawla of the Prophet, or Polemical Tool? , Elizabeth Urban Writing the History of the futuh: The futuh-works by al-Azdi, Ibn 'Atham, and al-Waqidi, Jens Scheiner In Defense of Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan: Treatises and Monographs on Mu'awiya from the Eighth to the Sixteenth Centuries, Aram A. Shahin The Umayyads and 'Abbasids in Mujir al-Din's Fifteenth-Century History of Jerusalem and Hebron, Robert Schick PART THREE: QUR'AN, LAW, AND NARRATIVE Reproducing Power: Qur'anic Anthropogonies in Comparison, Kathryn Kueny Narratives of Villainy: Titus, Nebuchadnezzar, and Nimrod in the hadith and midrash aggadah, Shari L. Lowin Qur'anic Rhetoric in Ninth-Century Muslim-Byzantine Diplomacy: Al-Ma'mun's Letter to Theophilus in 833 CE, Vanessa De Gifis Ibadi Fiqh Scholarship in Context, Brannon Wheeler The hadd Penalty for zina: Symbol or Deterrent? Texts from the Early Sixteenth Century, Marion Holmes Katz PART FOUR: TEXTS AND ARTIFACTS The Revolt of al-Harith b. Surayj and the Countermarking of Umayyad Dirhams in Early Eighth Century CE Khurasan, Stuart D. Sears The Riddle of Early Islamic Ascalon: Where is it and What does Coptic Glazed Ware Tell Us About it? Tracy Hoffman Hisn, Ribat, Thaghr or Qasr? Semantics and Systems of Frontier Fortifications in the Early Islamic Period, Asa Eger Descriptions of the Pharos of Alexandria in Islamic and Chinese Sources: Collective Memory and Textual Transmission, Tasha Vorderstrasse Bibliography Index

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Details

• NCID: BB09821561
• ISBN:
  • 9789004218857
• LCCN: 2012015413
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden ; Boston
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 488 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BP25
  • DC23 : 297.09
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Donner, Fred McGraw, 1945-
  • LCSH : Islam -- History
  • LCSH : Islam -- Historiography
  • LCSH : Koran -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
  • LCSH : Islamic law
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA22827088