The Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning

Studies Presented to Wadad Kadi
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-30590-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 122, 654 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1157 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

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 Günther; 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pomerantz, Maurice A

Shahin, Aram

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Philosophie & Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Leben & Praxis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Günther

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 José 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

Über Autor(innen)

Maurice A. Pomerantz, Ph.D. (2010), University of Chicago, is Assistant Professor of Literature at New York University Abu Dhabi.
He has published on Abbasid literature and literary culture of the fourth/tenth century. He is currently writing on the Maqamat of Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani and the history and circulation of the maqama genre.

Aram A. Shahin, Ph. D. (2009), University of Chicago, is Assistant Professor of Arabic at James Madison University. He has published on Islamic political thought and Arabic literature. He is currently working on articles on the development of the institution of the caliphate and of concepts of political legitimacy.