The studies in this volume, which cover an unusually wide range of topics in the Arabic humanities and Islamic thought, explore the richness of the Arabic literary tradition and Islamic intellectual life from the beginnings of Islam to the present. Contents Editors’ Preface List of Contributors Tabula Gratulatoria Publications of Everett K. Rowson 1 From Breath to Soul: The Quranic Word Rūḥ and Its (Mis)interpretations 2 The Wiles of Women, The Guile of Men: Re-reading Kayd in Sūrat Yūsuf 3 Some Ḥanbalī Views on Secret Marriage 4 Anta anā wa-anā minka (“You are me, and I am from you”): A Quasi-Nuṣayrī Fragment on the Intellect in the Early Ismāʿīlī Treatise Kitāb Ta ʾwīl ḥurūf al-muʿjam 5 The Crucified Speaks: ʿAlī ibn al-Jahm on His Day-Long Exposure at Nishapur 6 Man is Not the Only Speaking Animal: Thresholds and Idiom in al-Jāḥiẓ 7 Beyond the Known Limits: Ibn Dāwūd al-Iṣfahānī’s Chapter on “Intermedial” Poetry 8 Foul Whisperings: Madness and Poetry in Arabic Literary History 9 Music for the Body, Music for the Soul 10 Zoroaster’s Many Languages 11 Song and Punishment 12 Fathers and Husbands 13 Writing the Past: Ancient Egypt through the Lensof Medieval Islamic Thought 14 “The Mosul Stand-Up, or a Riff on a Stiff”: Al-Hamadhānī’s Maqāma of Mosul 15 An Edition of Al-Hamadhānī’s Al-Maqāma Al-Mawṣiliyya 16 Sucker of One’s Mother’s Clitoris: A Study of a Classical Arabic Insult 17 Commentators, Collators, and Copyists: Interpreting Manuscript Variation in the Exordium of Al-Ḥarīrī’s Maqāmāt 18 Going the Extra Mayl: Two Texts on Medieval Dynamics in the Islamic World 19 “Extremely Beautiful and Extremely Long” Al-Qīrāṭī’s Exuberant Letter from the Year 761/1360 20 Enterprising Sultans and the Doge of Venice: Political Culture and the Patronage of Science and Philosophy in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean 21 Contextualizing Muḥammad ʿAbduh’s Views on the Family, Marriage, and Divorce 22 “Go directly home with decorum”: Conduct Books for Egypt’s Young, ca. 1912 23 When Jews Attack: Toward a Social Psychology ofInter-Communal Violence in Yemen 24 Scope for Comparatism: Internationalist and Surrealist Resonances in Idwār Al-Kharrāṭ’s Resistant Literary Modernity 25 Securing Consent: Islamic Development and the Movement to Transform Egypt Index of Quran Citations General Index This volume brings together studies that explore the richness of the Arabic literary tradition and of Islamic intellectual life, from the beginnings of Islam to the present. The contributors cover an unusually wide range of subjects, including such topics as guile in the Quran, marriage in Islamic law, early esoterica, commentaries on al-Ḥarīrī's Maqamāt , Hellenistic philosophy in Arabic, medieval music and song, scurrilous poetry, Arabic rhetoric, cursing, the modern social and legal history of the Middle East, al-Kharrat's modernist project, and contemporary Islamic thought and responses to it. The volume's range reflects the enormous breadth of Everett Rowson's scholarship and his impact over a lifetime of publishing, editing, teaching, and mentoring in the many fields that constitute the Arabic humanities and Islamic thought. Contributors: Ali Humayun Akhtar, Thomas Bauer, Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt, Kevin van Bladel, Marilyn Booth, Michael Cooperson, Kenneth M. Cuno, Geert Jan van Gelder, Hala Halim, Lara Harb, David Hollenberg, Matthew L. Keegan, David Larsen, Joseph E. Lowry, Zainab Mahmood, Jon McGinnis, Jeannie Miller, John Nawas, Bilal Orfali, Alex Popovkin, Dwight F. Reynolds, Susan A. Spectorsky, Tara Stephan, Adam Talib, Sarra Tlili, Shawkat M. Toorawa, James Toth, Mark S. Wagner La 4e de couverture indique : "This volume brings together studies that explore the richness of the Arabic literary tradition and of Islamic intellectual life, from the beginnings of Islam to the present. The contributors cover an unusually wide range of subjects, including such topics as guile in the Qur'an, marriage in Islamic law, early esoterica, commentaries on al-Harīrī's 'Maqâmât', Hellenistic philosophy in Arabic, medieval music and song, scurrilous poetry, Arabic rhetoric, cursing, the modern social and legal history of the Middle East, al-Kharrât's modernist project, and contemporary Islamic thought and responses to it. The volume's range reflects the enormous breadth of Everett Rowson's scholarship and his impact over a lifetime of publishing, editing, teaching, and mentoring in the many fields that constitute the Arabic humanities and Islamic thought." This volume brings together studies that explore the richness of the Arabic literary tradition and of Islamic intellectual life, from the beginnings of Islam to the present. The contributors cover an unusually wide range of subjects, including such topics as guile in the Qur'an, marriage in Islamic law, early esoterica, commentaries on al-Ḥariri's 'Maqamat', Hellenistic philosophy in Arabic, medieval music and song, scurrilous poetry, Arabic rhetoric, cursing, the modern social and legal history of the Middle East, al-Kharrat's modernist project, and contemporary Islamic thought and responses to it. The volume's range reflects the enormous breadth of Everett Rowson's scholarship and his impact over a lifetime of publishing, editing, teaching, and mentoring in the many fields that constitute the Arabic humanities and Islamic thought
