Books and written culture of the Islamic world : : studies presented to Claude Gilliot on the occasion of his 75th birthday / / edited by Andrew Rippin and Roberto Tottoli.

• Superior document: Islamic History and Civilization : Studies and Texts, Volume 113
• TeilnehmendeR: Rippin, Andrew, 1950-; Tottoli, Roberto,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic history and civilization ; Volume 113.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In celebration of the many contributions of Claude Gilliot to Islamic studies, an international group of twenty-one friends and colleagues join together to explore books and written culture in the Muslim world. Divided into three sections – authors, genres and traditions – the essays explore themes that have been of central interest and concern to Gilliot himself including the Qurʾān, tafsīr, ḥadīth, poetry, and mysticism. Gilliot’s detailed and extensive work on many authors and texts, literary genres, and specific case-studies on many Muslim traditions renders this volume an apt tribute to him as well as offering Islamic studies’ scholars valuable research insights on these subjects. The authors of these English, French and German essays are all renowned scholars from Europe and North America, each of whom have benefitted substantially from Gilliot’s work and collegiality. With contributions by: Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, Mehdi Azaiez, Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau, Abdallah Cheikh-Moussa, Jean-Louis Déclais, Denis Gril, Manfred Kropp, Pierre Larcher, Michael Lecker, Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Harald Motzki, Tilman Nagel, Angelika Neuwirth, Emilio Platti, Jan van Reeth, Andrew Rippin, Uri Rubin, Walid Saleh, Roberto Tottoli, Reinhard Weipert, Francesco Zappa

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Criteria for Authenticity of Prophecy in ʿAbd al-Masīḥ al-Kindī’s Risāla / Emilio Platti -- Muḥammad born Isḥāq ṣāḥib al-maghāzī: Was His Grandfather Jewish? / Michael Lecker -- Les Maʿānī al-Qurʾān d’al-Farrāʾ ou la théologie tempérée par la philologie / Pierre Larcher -- Al-Mubarrad (d. 285/898) and Polysemy in the Qurʾān / Andrew Rippin -- Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, l’arabe et le Bédouin / Abdallah Cheikh-Moussa -- The Ḥāshiya of Ibn al-Munayyir (d. 683/1284) on al-Kashshāf of al-Zamakhsharī / Walid A. Saleh -- New Light on the Translation of the Qurʾān of Ludovico Marracci from His Manuscripts Recently Discovered at the Order of the Mother of God in Rome / Roberto Tottoli -- Le contre-discours coranique et la construction d’une figure de l’opposant / Mehdi Azaiez -- Présentation coranique des messages prophétiques anciens: l’attitude de kufr dénoncée / Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau -- Locating the Qurʾān in the Epistemic Space of Late Antiquity / Angelika Neuwirth -- Wirkende Worte: Das Ḥadīth und die Metaphysik / Tilman Nagel -- Gedanken zur Charakteristik der arabischen gnomischen Poesie der frühen Abbasidenzeit / Reinhard Weipert -- Écrire le secret sans le révéler: Remarques sur le vocabulaire technique de la poésie mystique persane / Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi -- Ibn Abī l-Iṣbaʿ al-Miṣrī et son traité sur le début des sourates / Denis Gril -- Lisān ʿarabiyy mubīn – „klares Arabisch“? oder: „offenbar Arabisch“, gar „geoffenbartes Arabisch“? / Manfred Kropp -- More Light on Muḥammad’s Pre-existence: Qurʾānic and post-Qurʾānic Perspectives / Uri Rubin -- La présentation du Prophète au Temple / J.M.F. Van Reeth -- Connecting Moses and Muḥammad / Jane Dammen McAuliffe -- Moïse et le rocher de la Querelle / Jean-Louis Déclais -- Abraham, Hagar and Ishmael at Mecca: A Contribution to the Problem of Dating Muslim Traditions / Harald Motzki -- Index of Qurʾānic References -- Index of Biblical and Extra-Biblical References -- Index of Arabic, Latin and Persian Titles -- Index of Arabic, Latin and Persian Authors.