Light upon light: essays in Islamic thought and history in honor of Gerhard Bowering / / edited by Jamal J. Elias, Bilal Orfali.
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 h...
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| Superior document: | Islamic History and Civilization; volume164 |
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| 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. |
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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.