Inhalt: | Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Narratives of Fred McGraw Donner /Paul M. Cobb -- Bibliography of the Works of Fred McGraw Donner -- Who was the Shepherd of Damascus? The Enigma of Jewish and Messianist Responses to the Islamic Conquests in Marwānid Syria and Mesopotomia /Sean W. Anthony -- Political Anarchism, Dissent, and Marginal Groups in the Early Ninth Century: The Ṣūfīs of the Muʿtazila Revisited /Hayrettin Yücesoy -- Scholars and Charlatans on the Baghdad-Khurasan Circuit from the Ninth to the Eleventh Centuries /Jonathan A. C. Brown -- Were the Ismāʿīlī Assassins the First Suicide Attackers? An Examination of Their Recorded Assassinations /David Cook -- The Identity Crisis of Abū Bakra: Mawlā of the Prophet, or Polemical Tool? /Elizabeth Urban -- Writing the History of the futūḥ: The futūḥ-works by al-Azdī, Ibn Aʿtham, and al-Wāqidī /Jens Scheiner -- In Defense of Muʿāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān: Treatises and Monographs on Muʿāwiya from the Eighth to the Nineteenth Centuries /Aram A. Shahin -- The Umayyads and ʿAbbāsids in Mujīr al-Dīn’s Fifteenth-Century History of Jerusalem and Hebron /Robert Schick -- Reproducing Power: Qurʾānic Anthropogonies in Comparison /Kathryn Kueny -- Narratives of Villainy: Titus, Nebuchadnezzar, and Nimrod in the ḥadīth and midrash aggadah /Shari L. Lowin -- Qurʾānic Rhetoric in Ninth-Century Muslim-Byzantine Diplomacy: Al-Maʾmūn’s Letter to Theophilus in 833 CE /Vanessa De Gifis -- Ibāḍī Fiqh Scholarship in Context /Brannon Wheeler -- The ḥadd Penalty for zinā: Symbol or Deterrent? Texts from the Early Sixteenth Century /Marion Holmes Katz -- The Revolt of al-Ḥārith ibn Surayj and the Countermarking of Umayyad Dirhams in Early Eighth Century CE Khurāsān /Stuart D. Sears -- The Riddle of Early Islamic Ascalon: Where is it and What does Coptic Glazed Ware Tell Us About it? /Tracy Hoffman -- Ḥiṣn, Ribāṭ, Thaghr or Qaṣr? 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 -- Index. 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 |
