UID:
almahu_9949702612402882
Format:
1 online resource (506 pages)
ISBN:
9789004231948
Series Statement:
Islamic history and civilization. Studies and texts ; v. 95
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Preliminary Material --
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Introduction: Narratives of Fred McGraw Donner /
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Bibliography of the Works of Fred McGraw Donner --
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Who was the Shepherd of Damascus? The Enigma of Jewish and Messianist Responses to the Islamic Conquests in Marwānid Syria and Mesopotomia /
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Political Anarchism, Dissent, and Marginal Groups in the Early Ninth Century: The Ṣūfīs of the Muʿtazila Revisited /
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Scholars and Charlatans on the Baghdad-Khurasan Circuit from the Ninth to the Eleventh Centuries /
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Were the Ismāʿīlī Assassins the First Suicide Attackers? An Examination of Their Recorded Assassinations /
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The Identity Crisis of Abū Bakra: Mawlā of the Prophet, or Polemical Tool? /
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Writing the History of the futūḥ: The futūḥ-works by al-Azdī, Ibn Aʿtham, and al-Wāqidī /
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In Defense of Muʿāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān: Treatises and Monographs on Muʿāwiya from the Eighth to the Nineteenth Centuries /
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The Umayyads and ʿAbbāsids in Mujīr al-Dīn's Fifteenth-Century History of Jerusalem and Hebron /
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Reproducing Power: Qurʾānic Anthropogonies in Comparison /
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Narratives of Villainy: Titus, Nebuchadnezzar, and Nimrod in the ḥadīth and midrash aggadah /
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Qurʾānic Rhetoric in Ninth-Century Muslim-Byzantine Diplomacy: Al-Maʾmūn's Letter to Theophilus in 833 CE /
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Ibāḍī Fiqh Scholarship in Context /
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The ḥadd Penalty for zinā: Symbol or Deterrent? Texts from the Early Sixteenth Century /
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The Revolt of al-Ḥārith ibn Surayj and the Countermarking of Umayyad Dirhams in Early Eighth Century CE Khurāsān /
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The Riddle of Early Islamic Ascalon: Where is it and What does Coptic Glazed Ware Tell Us About it? /
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Ḥiṣn, Ribāṭ, Thaghr or Qaṣr? Semantics and Systems of Frontier Fortifications in the Early Islamic Period /
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Descriptions of the Pharos of Alexandria in Islamic and Chinese Sources: Collective Memory and Textual Transmission /
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Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Lineaments of Islam. Leiden : Brill, c2012 ISBN 9789004218857
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
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Festschrift
