The heritage of Arabo-Islamic learning : studies presented to Wadad Kadi

Author(s)

• Pomerantz, Maurice A.
• Shahin, Aram A.

Bibliographic Information

The heritage of Arabo-Islamic learning : studies presented to Wadad Kadi

edited by Maurice A. Pomerantz, Aram A. Shahin

（Islamic history and civilization, v. 122）

Brill, c2016

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The Arabo-Islamic heritage of the Islam is among the richest, most diverse, and longest-lasting literary traditions in the world. Born from a culture and religion that valued teaching, Arabo-Islamic learning spread from the seventh century and has had a lasting impact until the present.In The Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning leading scholars around the world present twenty-five studies explore diverse areas of Arabo-Islamic heritage in honor of a renowned scholar and teacher, Dr. Wadad A. Kadi (Prof. Emerita, University of Chicago). The volume includes contributions in three main areas: History, Institutions, and the Use of Documentary Sources; Religion, Law, and Islamic Thought; Language, Literature, and Heritage which reflect Prof. Kadi's contributions to the field. Contributors:Sean W. Anthony; Ramzi Baalbaki; Jonathan A.C. Brown; Fred M. Donner; Mohammad Fadel; Kenneth Garden; Sebastian Gunther; Li Guo; Heinz Halm; Paul L. Heck; Nadia Jami; Jeremy Johns; Maher Jarrar; Marion Holmes Katz; Scott C. Lucas; Angelika Neuwirth; Bilal Orfali; Wen-chin Ouyang; Judith Pfeiffer; Maurice A. Pomerantz; Ridwan al-Sayyid ; Aram A. Shahin; Jens Scheiner; John O. Voll; Stefan Wild.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements.......................................................................................................... The Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning............................................................................. Prof. Wadad Kadi: A Life of Learning and Teaching.................................................... Bibliography Wadad Kadi (Wadad al-Qadi)................................................................... Works Dedicated to Wadad Kadi...................................................................................... HISTORY, INSTITUTIONS, AND THE USE OF DOCUMENTARY SOURCES The Meccan Prison of 'Abdallah b. al-Zubayr and the Imprisonment of Muhammad b. al-Hanafiyya..........................................................................................3 Sean W. Anthony Fragments of Three Umayyad Official Documents ..................................................30 Fred M. Donner Single Isnads or Riwayas? Quoted Books in Ibn 'Asakir's Tarjama of Tamim al-Dari................................................................................................................................48 Jens Scheiner Friendship in the Service of Governance: Makarim al-Akhlaq in Abbasid Political Culture ...............................................................................................................81 Paul L. Heck Prinzen, Prinzessinnen, Konkubinen und Eunuchen am fatimidischen Hof.......101 Heinz Halm A New Latin-Arabic Document from Norman Sicily (November 595 H/1198 CE)..123 Nadia Jamil and Jeremy Johns RELIGION, LAW, AND ISLAMIC THOUGHT The Rhetorical Qur'an or Orality as a Theologumenon.............................................189 Angelika Neuwirth The "Shearing of Forelocks" as a Penitential Rite.........................................................212 Marion Holmes Katz Authority in Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani's Kitab al-nawadir wa-l-ziyadat 'ala ma fi l-Mudawwana min ghayriha min al-ummahat: The Case of "The Chapter of Judgments" (Kitab al-aqdiya).........................................228 Mohammad Fadel A Segment of the Genealogy of Sunni Hadith Criticism: The Mysterious Relationship between al-Khatib al-Baghdadi and al-Hakim al-Naysaburi............249 Jonathan Brown Al-Hakim al-Naysaburi and the Companions of the Prophet: An Original Sunni Voice in the Shi'i Century....................................................................................258 Scott C. Lucas Ibn Rushd and Thomas Aquinas on Education...........................................................272 Sebastian Gunther Teaching the Learned: Jalal al-Din al-Dawani's Ijaza to Mu'ayyadzada 'Abd al-Rahman Efendi and the Circulation of Knowledge between Fars and the Ottoman Empire at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century..............................306 Judith Pfeiffer Scholars in Networks: 'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi and His Travels............................360 John O. Voll Rhetorics of Revival: al-Ghazali and His Modern Heirs...............................................381 Kenneth Garden LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND HERITAGE Grammarians on the Af'al al-Muqaraba: Steps in the Sources towards a Subdivision of Operants...............................................................................................................................405 Ramzi Baalbaki Reflections on the Lives and Deaths of Two Umayyad Poets: Layla al-Akhyaliyya and Tawba b. al-Humayyir..........................................................432 Aram A. Shahin Literature and Thought: Re-reading al-Tawhidi's Transcription of the Debate between Logic and Grammar..............................................................................................473 Wen-chin Ouyang The Play of Genre: A Maqama of "Ease after Hardship" from the Eighth/Fourteenth Century and Its Literary Context........................................................................................492 Maurice A. Pomerantz What's in a Mamluk Picture? The Hall of Portraiture at the Cairo Citadel Remembered.............................................................................................................518 Li Guo In Defense of the Use of Qur'an in Adab: Ibn Abi l-Lutf's Raf' al-iltibas 'an munkir al-iqtibas...............................................................535 Bilal Orfali Modes of Existence of the Poetry in the Arabian Nights............................................564 Wolfhart Heinrichs Modern Arabic Literature and Islam...............................................................................576 Stefan Wild Abraham and the Sacrificial Son: Transtextual Strategies in Jose Saramago's The Gospel according to Jesus Christ and Elias Khoury's As though She Were Sleeping......................................................................................................................593 Maher Jarrar The Ideological and Epistemological: Contemporary Readings in Arabo-Islamic Classical Heritage (Turath)..................................................................................................................640 Ridwan al-Sayyid (Translated by Eman Morsi) Index of Arabic Terms Index of Proper Nouns Notes on the Contributors

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Details

• NCID: BB21039413
• ISBN:
  • 9789004305908
• LCCN: 2015030290
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: engara
• Place of Publication: Leiden ; Boston
• Pages/Volumes: xlii, 654 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DS35.62
  • DC23 : 909/.09767
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Qāḍī, Wadād
  • LCSH : Islamic civilization
  • LCSH : Islamic learning and scholarship
  • LCSH : Arabic literature -- History and criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA22827088