The lineaments of Islam : studies in honor of Fred McGraw Donner /

The lineaments of Islam : studies in honor of Fred McGraw Donner /

In honor of Fred M. Donner's long and distinguished career as one of the foremost interpreters of early Islam, this volume collects more than a dozen original studies by his students. They range over a wide array of sub-fields in Islamic history and Islamic studies, including early history, his...

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Other Authors: Donner, Fred McGraw, 1945-, Cobb, Paul M., 1967-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill. c2012.

Series: Islamic History and Civilization 95.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2012, ISBN: 9789004223295.

Subjects:

Koran > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Islam > History.
Islamic law.
RELIGION / Fundamentalism.
RELIGION / Islam / History.

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Call Number: BP50 .L56 2012

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: Narratives of Fred McGraw Donner /
  • Paul M. Cobb
  • Bibliography of the Works of Fred McGraw Donner
  • Who was the Shepherd of Damascus? The Enigma of Jewish and Messianist Responses to the Islamic Conquests in Marwānid Syria and Mesopotomia /
  • Sean W. Anthony
  • Political Anarchism, Dissent, and Marginal Groups in the Early Ninth Century: The Ṣūfīs of the Muʿtazila Revisited /
  • Hayrettin Yücesoy
  • Scholars and Charlatans on the Baghdad-Khurasan Circuit from the Ninth to the Eleventh Centuries /
  • Jonathan A. C. Brown
  • Were the Ismāʿīlī Assassins the First Suicide Attackers? An Examination of Their Recorded Assassinations /
  • David Cook
  • The Identity Crisis of Abū Bakra: Mawlā of the Prophet, or Polemical Tool? /
  • Elizabeth Urban
  • Writing the History of the futūḥ: The futūḥ-works by al-Azdī, Ibn Aʿtham, and al-Wāqidī /
  • Jens Scheiner
  • In Defense of Muʿāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān: Treatises and Monographs on Muʿāwiya from the Eighth to the Nineteenth Centuries /
  • Aram A. Shahin
  • The Umayyads and ʿAbbāsids in Mujīr al-Dīn's Fifteenth-Century History of Jerusalem and Hebron /
  • Robert Schick
  • Reproducing Power: Qurʾānic Anthropogonies in Comparison /
  • Kathryn Kueny
  • Narratives of Villainy: Titus, Nebuchadnezzar, and Nimrod in the ḥadīth and midrash aggadah /
  • Shari L. Lowin
  • Qurʾānic Rhetoric in Ninth-Century Muslim-Byzantine Diplomacy: Al-Maʾmūn's Letter to Theophilus in 833 CE /
  • Vanessa De Gifis
  • Ibāḍī Fiqh Scholarship in Context /
  • Brannon Wheeler
  • The ḥadd Penalty for zinā: Symbol or Deterrent? Texts from the Early Sixteenth Century /
  • Marion Holmes Katz
  • The Revolt of al-Ḥārith ibn Surayj and the Countermarking of Umayyad Dirhams in Early Eighth Century CE Khurāsān /
  • Stuart D. Sears
  • The Riddle of Early Islamic Ascalon: Where is it and What does Coptic Glazed Ware Tell Us About it? /
  • Tracy Hoffman
  • Ḥiṣn, Ribāṭ, Thaghr or Qaṣr? Semantics and Systems of Frontier Fortifications in the Early Islamic Period /
  • Asa Eger
  • Descriptions of the Pharos of Alexandria in Islamic and Chinese Sources: Collective Memory and Textual Transmission /
  • Tasha Vorderstrasse
  • Index.