Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning

Maurice A . Pomerantz, Ph.D. (2010), University of Chicago, is Assistant Professor of Literature at New York University Abu Dhabi.He has published on Abbasid literature and literary culture of the fourth/tenth century. He is currently writing on the Maqāmāt of Badīʿ al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī and the history and circulation of the maqāma genre. Aram A. Shahin, Ph. D. (2009), University of Chicago, is Assistant Professor of Arabic at James Madison University. He has published on Islamic political thought and Arabic literature. He is currently working on articles on the development of the institution of the caliphate and of concepts of political legitimacy.

• Acknowledgements……………………………………………………………………………………………. The Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning………………………………………………………………….. Prof. Wadad Kadi: A Life of Learning and Teaching……………………………………………. Bibliography Wadad Kadi (Wadād al-Qāḍī)……………………………….…………………………Works Dedicated to Wadad Kadi…………………………………………………………………………..HISTORY, INSTITUTIONS, AND THE USE OF DOCUMENTARY SOURCESThe Meccan Prison of ʿAbdallāh b. al-Zubayr and the Imprisonment of Muḥammad b. al-Ḥanafiyya………………………………………………………………………………3Sean W. AnthonyFragments of Three Umayyad Official Documents …………………………………………..30Fred M. DonnerSingle Isnāds or Riwāyas? Quoted Books in Ibn ʿAsākirʼs Tarjama of Tamīmal-Dārī…………………………………………..……………………………………………………………………48Jens ScheinerFriendship in the Service of Governance: Makārim al-Akhlāq in Abbasid Political Culture …………………………………………………………………………………………………81Paul L. HeckPrinzen, Prinzessinnen, Konkubinen und Eunuchen am fatimidischen Hof…….101Heinz HalmA New Latin-Arabic Document from Norman Sicily (November 595 H/1198 CE)..123Nadia Jamil and Jeremy JohnsRELIGION, LAW, AND ISLAMIC THOUGHTThe Rhetorical Qurʾān or Orality as a Theologumenon………………………………………189Angelika NeuwirthThe “Shearing of Forelocks” as a Penitential Rite…………………………………………………212Marion Holmes KatzAuthority in Ibn Abī Zayd al-Qayrawānī’s Kitāb al-nawādir wa-l-ziyādātʿalā mā fī l-Mudawwana min ghayrihā min al-ummahāt: The Case of “The Chapter of Judgments” (Kitāb al-aqḍiya)…………………………………..228Mohammad FadelA Segment of the Genealogy of Sunni Ḥadīth Criticism: The Mysterious Relationship between al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī and al-Ḥākim al-Naysābūrī…………249Jonathan BrownAl-Ḥākim al-Naysābūrī and the Companions of the Prophet: An Original Sunnī Voice in the Shīʿī Century…………………………………………………………………………258Scott C. LucasIbn Rushd and Thomas Aquinas on Education…………………………………………………..272Sebastian GüntherTeaching the Learned: Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawānī’s Ijāza to Muʾayyadzāda ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Efendi and the Circulation of Knowledge between Fārsand the Ottoman Empire at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century…………………………306Judith PfeifferScholars in Networks: ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī and His Travels……………………….360John O. VollRhetorics of Revival: al-Ghazālī and His Modern Heirs………………………………………..381Kenneth GardenLANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND HERITAGEGrammarians on the Afʿāl al-Muqāraba: Steps in the Sources towards a Subdivision of Operants………………………………………..………………………………………..……………………………405Ramzi BaalbakiReflections on the Lives and Deaths of Two Umayyad Poets:Laylā al-Akhyaliyya and Tawba b. al-Ḥumayyir……………………..…………………………..432Aram A. ShahinLiterature and Thought: Re-reading al-Tawḥīdī’s Transcription of the Debate between Logic and Grammar………………………………………………………………………………….473Wen-chin OuyangThe Play of Genre: A Maqāma of “Ease after Hardship” from the Eighth/Fourteenth Century and Its Literary Context…………………………………………………………………………….492Maurice A. PomerantzWhat’s in a Mamluk Picture? The Hall of Portraiture at the Cairo Citadel Remembered……………………………………………………………………………………………….518Li GuoIn Defense of the Use of Qurʾān in Adab:Ibn Abī l-Luṭf’s Rafʿ al-iltibās ʿan munkir al-iqtibās………………………………………………………535Bilal OrfaliModes of Existence of the Poetry in the Arabian Nights……………………………………..564Wolfhart HeinrichsModern Arabic Literature and Islam…………………………………………………………………….576Stefan WildAbraham and the Sacrificial Son: Transtextual Strategies in José Saramago’s The Gospel according to Jesus Christ and Elias Khoury’s As though She Were Sleeping……………………………………………………………………………………………………….593Maher JarrarThe Ideological and Epistemological: Contemporary Readings in Arabo-Islamic Classical Heritage (Turāth)……………………………………………………………………………………………………640Riḍwān al-Sayyid (Translated by Eman Morsi)Index of Arabic TermsIndex of Proper NounsNotes on the Contributors