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, wh...

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.