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 /

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)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Series: Islamic History and Civilization; volume164.

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Islamic philosophy.
Islam.

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Call Number: B740 .L54 2019

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Preface
  • Publications by Gerhard Bowering
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Quran and Early Islam
  • Scholarship and Folklore? /
  • Mareike Koertner
  • The Rise of Islam in a Judeo-Christian Context /
  • Jonathan E. Brockopp
  • Biblical Turns of Phrase in the Quran /
  • Gabriel Said Reynolds
  • The Interpretation of the Covenant Verse in Classical Imami Theology /
  • Hussein Ali Abdulsater
  • Kitāb intizāʿāt al-Qurʾān al-ʿaẓīm /
  • Bilal W. Orfali
  • Sufism, Shiʿism, and Lettrism
  • Risāla fī l-ṣifāt wa-ʿilm al-tawḥīd /
  • Nada Saab
  • Shiʿi Literature in the Late Ninth Century /
  • Mushegh Asatryan
  • The Treatise on the Ascension (al-Risāla al-miʿrājiyya) /
  • Yousef Casewit
  • The Image of Qalandar in the Dīvān-i Shams /
  • Janis Esots
  • Pseudo-Shaykh Bahāʾī on the Supreme Name, a Safavid-Qajar Lettrist Classic /
  • Matthew Melvin-Koushki
  • Sufism and Islamic Identity in Jalaluddin Rumi's Anatolia /
  • Jamal J. Elias
  • India as a Sufi Spacetime in the Work of Jamālī of Delhi /
  • Shahzad Bashir
  • Philosophy
  • Knowledge on Display /
  • Amina M. Steinfels
  • Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī's Taxonomy of Extraordinary Acts /
  • Tariq Jaffer
  • Believing Is Seeing /
  • Mahan Mirza
  • Al-Ghazālī's Philosophical Soteriology /
  • Alexander Treiger
  • Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī and the Art of Knowing /
  • Joseph Lumbard
  • Literature and Culture
  • Religious Satire in the Maqāmāt of al-Hamadhānī /
  • Matthew Ingalls
  • Doctrinal Anxiety and Social Reality regarding Music and Dance in Mamluk Cairo /
  • Li Guo
  • Back Matter
  • Indexes.