Islamic Studies Presented to Charles J. Adams / / Wael B. Hallaq and Donald P. Little, editors.

• TeilnehmendeR: Hallaq, Wael B.,; Little, Donald P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : BRILL,, 1991.
• Year of Publication: 1991
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This tribute to Charles J. Adams from colleagues and students includes essays on numerous aspects of Islamic civilization, beginning with early Islam down to the modern period. The Qur'ān receives the attention of five authors: Andrew Rippin focuses on references to the pre-Islamic Hanīfs, while Issa Boullata traces poetic citation in Qur'ānic exegesis. Sulami's commentary is discussed by Gerhard Böwering, and Hallaq draws attention to the unique place the Qur'ān occupied in Shātibī's legal theory. Finally, W.C. Smith looks at the Qur'ān from a comparativist perspective. Ulrich Haarmann and Donald P. Little deal, respectively, with the attitudes of medieval Egyptians towards the Pyramids, and the nature of Sūfī institutions under the Mamluks. Mehdi Mohaghegh, Hasan Murad and Paul Walker treat philosophical and theological issues, while Eric Ormsby analyzes the structure of experience in Ghazali. Sajida Alvi explores the religious writings of the eighteenth-century Indian scholar Panīpatī, and Üner Turgay examines Circassian immigration to the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century. Orthodoxy and aberrancy in the Ithna 'Asharī tradition is the subject of Savory's article, and the notion of literature in Arab and Islamic culture is treated by Wickens. Finally, Bernard Weiss compares Islamic and Western conceptions of law.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Charles J. Adams -- Publications of Charles J. Adams -- 1. Qāżī Sanā' Allāh Pānīpatī, an Eighteenth-Century Indian Ṣūfī-ʿĀlim: a Study of his Writings in their Sociopolitical Context -- 2. Poetry Citation as Interpretive Illustration in Qurʾān Exegesis: Masāʾil Nāfiʿ Ihn al-Azraq -- 3. The Qurʾān Commentary of al-Sulamī -- 4. In Quest of the Spectacular: Noble and Learned Visitors to the Pyramids around 1200 A.D. -- 5. The Primacy of the Qurʾān in Shāṭibī's Legal Theory -- 6. The Nature of Khānqāhs, Ribāṭs, and Zāwiyas under the Mamlūks -- 7. The Kitāb al-shukūk ʿalā Jālīnūs of Muḥammad Ibn Zakariyyā Al-Rāzī -- 8. Jabr and Qadar in Early Islam: A Reappraisal of their Political and Religious Implications -- 9. The Taste of Truth: The Structure of Experience in al-Ghazālī's al-Munqidh min al-ḍalāl -- 10. RḤMNN and the Ḥanīfs -- 11. Orthodoxy and Aberrancy in the Ithnā ʿAsharī Shīʿī Tradition -- 12. A Note on the Qurʾān from a Comparativist Perspective -- 13. Circassian Immigration into the Ottoman Empire, 1856-1878 -- 14. The Doctrine of Metempsychosis in Islam -- 15. Law in Islam and in the West: Some Comparative Observations -- 16. To Seek: The Human Crises and the Trivial Round.