The historian of Islam at work : essays in honor of Hugh N. Kennedy

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The historian of Islam at work : essays in honor of Hugh N. Kennedy

edited by Maaike van Berkel, Letizia Osti

(Islamic history and civilization, v. 198)

Brill, c2022

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The Historian of Islam at Work is a volume in honor of Hugh N. Kennedy. It offers thirty contributions by three generations of prominent scholars in the field of pre-modern Middle Eastern studies, covering the many areas of Islamic historical inquiry in which Hugh Kennedy has been active throughout his career. Grouped around four major themes - Caliphate and power, economy and society, Abbasids, and frontiers and the others - the contributions deal with the history, archaeology, architecture and literature of the Middle East, North Africa and beyond, from the time of the Prophet until the fifteenth century.

Table of Contents

  • List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Tabula Gratulatoria A Lifelong Passion for Islamic History Maaike van Berkel and Letizia Osti Bibliography of Hugh N. Kennedy Part 1 Caliphate and Power 1 A Himyarite Restorationist Prophecy Michael Cook 2 Kinship, Dynasty and the Umayyads Andrew Marsham 3 He Reigned as Caliph
  • Then He Died: The Reigns of Caliphs Versified Geert Jan van Gelder 4 Versifying History in Abbasid Iraq: The Universal History in Verse of 'Ali b. al-Jahm Harry Munt 5 How to Found an Islamic State: The Idrisids and the Rivals to the Caliphate in the Far Islamic West Corisande Fenwick 6 Rethinking "the Mamluk State" with Ibn Khaldun: "Mamlukization" and 'asabiyya in the Sultanate of Cairo Jo Van Steenbergen 7 Ibn Khaldun and the Hafsid Caliphate Allen Fromherz Part 2 Economy and Society 8 A Three-Centered System: Aleppo, Damascus, and Cairo in the Age of the Ayyubids R. Stephen Humphreys 9 Informal and Formal Trading Associations in Egypt and Ifriqiya, 850-1150 Chris Wickham 10 Good Governance in Theory and Practice: Comparing Abu Yusuf's Kitab al-Kharaj with Papyri Petra M. Sijpesteijn 11 A Matter of Trust: On Some Principles of Governance in the Letters of Qurra b. Sharik Arietta Papacostantinou 12 Calculating the Population of Samarra Alastair Northedge 13 Flour for the Caliph: Watermills in the "Land behind Mosul" Cristina Tonghini 14 Bedouin, Bandits and Caliphal Disappearance: A Reappraisal of the Qaramita and Their Success in Arabia Peter Webb 15 Zina and muhsanat in the Quran Richard A. Kimber Part 3 Abbasids 16 Muslim Nostalgia: Longing for the Abbasid Past in the Mamluk Era Robert Irwin 17 The al-Mustansiriyya madrasa in Baghdad and Its Founder, al-Mustansir Carole Hillenbrand 18 Harun al-Rashid in Premodern Arabic Literary Imaginary: Ideology of Monogamy, Harem Politics, and Court Intrigues Wen-Chin Ouyang 19 Representation of the Barmakids in Bodleian Manuscript Ouseley 217 and Other Monographs Pejman Firoozbakhsh and Arezou Azad 20 Eutychius of Alexandria Vindicated: Muslim Sources and Christian Arabic Historiography in the Early Islamic Empire Robert Hoyland 21 Bureaucrats on the Move: Messengers in Fourth/Tenth-Century Iraq Maaike van Berkel, Nadia Maria El Cheikh and Letizia Osti 22 Al-Tabari's Unacknowledged Debt to Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur Sarah Bowen Savant 23 Heraqleh: A New Interpretation Andrew Petersen Part 4 Frontiers and the Others 24 The Interface between Byzantium and the Ilkhanids in Fourteenth-Century Book Painting Robert Hillenbrand 25 Exploring Europe through Medieval Islamic Folk Literature Niall Christie 26 The Lordship and Bishopric of Banyas in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (1126-1164) Alan V. Murray 27 Fortresses and Frontiers: Castles and Northern Syria in the Sultanate of Cairo Angus D. Stewart 28 The Sasanian Fort of Pankan Balazs Major 29 Negotiating the North: Armenian Perspectives on the Conquest Era Tim Greenwood 30 New Palaeoenvironmental Evidence on the Possible Impact on Agriculture of Early Arab-Islamic Raiding Activity on Crete John F. Haldon Index

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