Arabic humanities, Islamic thought : : essays in honor of Everett K. Rowson / / edited by Joseph E. Lowry, Shawkat M. Toorawa.

• Superior document: Islamic History and Civilization, Volume 141
• TeilnehmendeR: Lowry, Joseph E.; Toorawa, Shawkat M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic history and civilization ; Volume 141.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (546 pages).

This volume brings together studies that explore the richness of the Arabic literary tradition and of Islamic intellectual life, from the beginnings of Islam to the present. The contributors cover an unusually wide range of subjects, including such topics as guile in the Quran, marriage in Islamic law, early esoterica, commentaries on al-Ḥarīrī’s Maqamāt , Hellenistic philosophy in Arabic, medieval music and song, scurrilous poetry, Arabic rhetoric, cursing, the modern social and legal history of the Middle East, al-Kharrat’s modernist project, and contemporary Islamic thought and responses to it. The volume’s range reflects the enormous breadth of Everett Rowson’s scholarship and his impact over a lifetime of publishing, editing, teaching, and mentoring in the many fields that constitute the Arabic humanities and Islamic thought. Contributors: Ali Humayun Akhtar, Thomas Bauer, Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt, Kevin van Bladel, Marilyn Booth, Michael Cooperson, Kenneth M. Cuno, Geert Jan van Gelder, Hala Halim, Lara Harb, David Hollenberg, Matthew L. Keegan, David Larsen, Joseph E. Lowry, Zainab Mahmood, Jon McGinnis, Jeannie Miller, John Nawas, Bilal Orfali, Alex Popovkin, Dwight F. Reynolds, Susan A. Spectorsky, Tara Stephan, Adam Talib, Sarra Tlili, Shawkat M. Toorawa, James Toth, Mark S. Wagner.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- From Breath to Soul: The Quranic Word Rūḥ and Its (Mis)interpretations / Sarra Tlili -- The Wiles of Women, The Guile of Men: Re-reading Kayd in Sūrat Yūsuf / Zainab Mahmood -- Some Ḥanbalī Views on Secret Marriage / Susan A. Spectorsky -- Anta anā wa-anā minka (“You are me, and I am from you”): A Quasi-Nuṣayrī Fragment on the Intellect in the Early Ismāʿīlī Treatise Kitāb Taʾwīl ḥurūf al-muʿjam / David Hollenberg -- The Crucified Speaks: ʿAlī ibn al-Jahm on His Day-Long Exposure at Nishapur / David Larsen -- Man is Not the Only Speaking Animal: Thresholds and Idiom in al-Jāḥiẓ / Jeannie Miller -- Beyond the Known Limits: Ibn Dāwūd al-Iṣfahānī’s Chapter on “Intermedial” Poetry / Lara Harb -- Foul Whisperings: Madness and Poetry in Arabic Literary History / Geert Jan van Gelder -- Music for the Body, Music for the Soul / Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt -- Zoroaster’s Many Languages / Kevin van Bladel -- Song and Punishment / Dwight F. Reynolds -- Fathers and Husbands / Adam Talib -- Writing the Past: Ancient Egypt through the Lens of Medieval Islamic Thought / Tara Stephan -- “The Mosul Stand-Up, or a Riff on a Stiff”: Al-Hamadhānī’s Maqāma of Mosul / Michael Cooperson -- An Edition of Al-Hamadhānī’s Al-Maqāma Al-Mawṣiliyya / Bilal Orfali -- Sucker of One’s Mother’s Clitoris: A Study of a Classical Arabic Insult / John Nawas -- Commentators, Collators, and Copyists: Interpreting Manuscript Variation in the Exordium of Al-Ḥarīrī’s Maqāmāt / Matthew L. Keegan -- Going the Extra Mayl: Two Texts on Medieval Dynamics in the Islamic World / Jon McGinnis -- “Extremely Beautiful and Extremely Long” / Thomas Bauer -- Enterprising Sultans and the Doge of Venice: Political Culture and the Patronage of Science and Philosophy in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean / Ali Humayun Akhtar -- Contextualizing Muḥammad ʿAbduh’s Views on the Family, Marriage, and Divorce / Kenneth M. Cuno -- “Go directly home with decorum”: Conduct Books for Egypt’s Young, circa 1912 / Marilyn Booth -- When Jews Attack: Toward a Social Psychology of Inter-Communal Violence in Yemen / Mark S. Wagner -- Scope for Comparatism: Internationalist and Surrealist Resonances in Idwār al-Kharrāṭ’s Resistant Literary Modernity / Hala Halim -- Securing Consent: Islamic Development and the Movement to Transform Egypt / James Toth -- Index of Quran Citations -- General Index.