Light upon light: essays in Islamic thought and history in honor of Gerhard Bowering /

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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Other Authors: Böwering, Gerhard, 1939- (honouree.), Elias, Jamal J. (Editor), Urfahʹlī, Bilāl (Editor)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Series: Islamic History and Civilization; volume164.

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505 0 0 |t Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Publications by Gerhard Bowering -- Notes on Contributors -- Quran and Early Islam -- Scholarship and Folklore? /  |r Mareike Koertner -- The Rise of Islam in a Judeo-Christian Context /  |r Jonathan E. Brockopp -- Biblical Turns of Phrase in the Quran /  |r Gabriel Said Reynolds -- The Interpretation of the Covenant Verse in Classical Imami Theology /  |r Hussein Ali Abdulsater -- Kitāb intizāʿāt al-Qurʾān al-ʿaẓīm /  |r Bilal W. Orfali -- Sufism, Shiʿism, and Lettrism -- Risāla fī l-ṣifāt wa-ʿilm al-tawḥīd /  |r Nada Saab -- Shiʿi Literature in the Late Ninth Century /  |r Mushegh Asatryan -- The Treatise on the Ascension (al-Risāla al-miʿrājiyya) /  |r Yousef Casewit -- The Image of Qalandar in the Dīvān-i Shams /  |r Janis Esots -- Pseudo-Shaykh Bahāʾī on the Supreme Name, a Safavid-Qajar Lettrist Classic /  |r Matthew Melvin-Koushki -- Sufism and Islamic Identity in Jalaluddin Rumi's Anatolia /  |r Jamal J. Elias -- India as a Sufi Spacetime in the Work of Jamālī of Delhi /  |r Shahzad Bashir -- Philosophy -- Knowledge on Display /  |r Amina M. Steinfels -- Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī's Taxonomy of Extraordinary Acts /  |r Tariq Jaffer -- Believing Is Seeing /  |r Mahan Mirza -- Al-Ghazālī's Philosophical Soteriology /  |r Alexander Treiger -- Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī and the Art of Knowing /  |r Joseph Lumbard -- Literature and Culture -- Religious Satire in the Maqāmāt of al-Hamadhānī /  |r Matthew Ingalls -- Doctrinal Anxiety and Social Reality regarding Music and Dance in Mamluk Cairo /  |r Li Guo -- Back Matter -- Indexes. 
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