The Lineaments of Islam

Studies in Honor of Fred McGraw Donner
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-21885-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 95, 490 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 920 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

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 Yücesoy.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in Islamic history and historiography, Islamic law, and Islamic thought, including theology, heresiography, and politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cobb, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Yücesoy
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

Über Autor(innen)

Cobb, Paul
Paul M. Cobb, Ph.D. (1997), University of Chicago, is Professor of Islamic History in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published numerous books, translations, and articles dealing with medieval Islam, including his translation of Usama ibn Munqidh's Book of Contemplation (Penguin Classics, 2008).