Format:
1 online resource (504 pages)
ISBN:
9781433706363
Content:
This volume of collected studies in classical Arabic literature and Islam opens a window into the fascinating world of medieval Muslim scholarship. It explores issues in the intellectual heritage of Islam, which have universal appeal and are, therefore, of interest to both specialist and non-specialist readers alike.
Content:
Intro -- Foreword (By Tarif Khalidi) -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction (By Sebastian Günther) -- Chapter One Context Equivalence: A Hitherto Insufficiently Studied Use of the Quran in Political Speeches from the Early Period of Islam (By Stephan Dähne) -- Chapter Two Classical Heritage and New Literary Forms: Literary Activities of Christians during the Umayyad Period (By Ute Pietruschka) -- Chapter Three Refuting the Charge of Tahrīf: Abū Rā'ita (d. ca. 835) and his "First Risāla on the Holy Trinity" (By Sandra Toenies Keating) -- Chapter Four Meeting the Patron: An Akhbār Type and its Implications for Muhdath Poetry (By Beatrice Gruendler) -- Chapter Five Advice for Teachers: The 9th Century Muslim Scholars Ibn Sahnūn and al-Jāhiz on Pedagogy and Didactics (By Sebastian Günther) -- Chapter Six Medieval Muslim Scholarship and Social Network Analysis: A Study of the Basra/Kufa Dichotomy in Arabic Grammar (By Monique Bernards) -- Chapter Seven The Contribution of the Mawālī to the Six Sunnite Canonical Hadīth Collections (By John Nawas) -- Chapter Eight Portrayal of the Hajj as a Context for Women's Exegesis: Textual Evidence in al-Bukhārī's (d. 870) "al-Sāhīh" (By Aisha Geissinger) -- Chapter Nine Image Formation of an Islamic Legend: Fātima, the Daughter of the Prophet Muhammad (By Verena Klemm) -- Chapter Ten Narratives and Character Development: Al-Tabarī and al-Balādhurī on Late Umayyad History (By Steven C. Judd) -- Chapter Eleven "The Alchemy of Happiness": Al-Ghazālī's Kīmiyā and the Origins of the Khwājagān-Naqshbandiyya Principles (By Alexei A. Khismatulin) -- Chapter Twelve Taqlīd of the Philosophers: Al-Ghazālī's Initial Accusation in his Tahāfut (By Frank Griffel) -- Chapter Thirteen The Spread of Zāhirism in Post-Caliphal al-Andalus: The Evidence from the Biographical Dictionaries (By Camilla Adang).
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004143258
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004143258
Additional Edition:
Print version Ideas, Images, and Methods of Portrayal : Insights into Classical Arabic Literature and Islam
Language:
English
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