Light upon light: essays in Islamic thought and history in honor of Gerhard Bowering / / edited by Jamal J. Elias, Bilal Orfali.

• Superior document: Islamic History and Civilization; volume164
• TeilnehmendeR: Böwering, Gerhard, 1939-; Elias, Jamal J.,; Urfahʹlī, Bilāl,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic History and Civilization; volume164.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (487 pages).
• Notes: Includes index.

Light upon Light: Essays in Islamic Thought and History in Honor of Gerhard Bowering brings together studies that explore the richness of Islamic intellectual life in the pre-modern period. Leading scholars around the world present nineteen studies that explore diverse areas of Islamic Studies, in honor of a renowned scholar and teacher: Professor Dr. Gerhard Bowering (Yale University). The volume includes contributions in four main areas: (1) Quran and Early Islam; (2) Sufism, Shiʿism, and Esotericism; (3) Philosophy; (4) Literature and Culture. These areas reflect the enormous breadth of Professor Bowering’s contributions to the field over a lifetime of scholarship, teaching, and mentoring. Contributors: Hussein Ali Abdulsater, Mushegh Asatryan, Shahzad Bashir, Jonathan Brockopp, Yousef Casewit, Jamal Elias, Janis Esots, Li Guo, Matthew Ingalls, Tariq Jaffer, Mareike Koertner, Joseph Lumbard, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Mahan Mirza, Bilal Orfali, Gabriel Reynolds, Nada Saab, Amina Steinfels & Alexander Treiger.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Publications by Gerhard Bowering -- Notes on Contributors -- Quran and Early Islam -- Scholarship and Folklore? / Mareike Koertner -- The Rise of Islam in a Judeo-Christian Context / Jonathan E. Brockopp -- Biblical Turns of Phrase in the Quran / Gabriel Said Reynolds -- The Interpretation of the Covenant Verse in Classical Imami Theology / Hussein Ali Abdulsater -- Kitāb intizāʿāt al-Qurʾān al-ʿaẓīm / Bilal W. Orfali -- Sufism, Shiʿism, and Lettrism -- Risāla fī l-ṣifāt wa-ʿilm al-tawḥīd / Nada Saab -- Shiʿi Literature in the Late Ninth Century / Mushegh Asatryan -- The Treatise on the Ascension (al-Risāla al-miʿrājiyya) / Yousef Casewit -- The Image of Qalandar in the Dīvān-i Shams / Janis Esots -- Pseudo-Shaykh Bahāʾī on the Supreme Name, a Safavid-Qajar Lettrist Classic / Matthew Melvin-Koushki -- Sufism and Islamic Identity in Jalaluddin Rumi’s Anatolia / Jamal J. Elias -- India as a Sufi Spacetime in the Work of Jamālī of Delhi / Shahzad Bashir -- Philosophy -- Knowledge on Display / Amina M. Steinfels -- Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Taxonomy of Extraordinary Acts / Tariq Jaffer -- Believing Is Seeing / Mahan Mirza -- Al-Ghazālī’s Philosophical Soteriology / Alexander Treiger -- Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī and the Art of Knowing / Joseph Lumbard -- Literature and Culture -- Religious Satire in the Maqāmāt of al-Hamadhānī / Matthew Ingalls -- Doctrinal Anxiety and Social Reality regarding Music and Dance in Mamluk Cairo / Li Guo -- Back Matter -- Indexes.