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Arabic Humanities, Islamic Thought
Essays in Honor of Everett K. Rowson
Series: - Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 141
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-ḤarÄ«rÄ«âs MaqamÄt, Hellenistic philosophy in Arabic, medieval music and song, scurrilous poetry, Arabic rhetoric, cursing, the modern social and legal history of the Middle East, al-Kharratâs modernist project, and contemporary Islamic thought and responses to it.
The volumeâs range reflects the enormous breadth of Everett Rowsonâs 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.
The volumeâs range reflects the enormous breadth of Everett Rowsonâs 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.
Joseph E. Lowry, (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1999) teaches Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and is an editor of the Library of Arabic Literature.
Shawkat M. Toorawa, (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1998), teaches Arabic language and literature at Yale University and is an editor of the Library of Arabic Literature.
Shawkat M. Toorawa, (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1998), teaches Arabic language and literature at Yale University and is an editor of the Library of Arabic Literature.
"Enthralling and titillating, this is an impressive compilation of papers written in honor of Everett K. Rowson, covering a suprisingly vast number o fields, in perception heretic, challenging, and informative, positively adding to the extant literature." - Stavros Nikolaidis, in: Journal of Oriental and African Studies 27 (2018)
List of Contributors
Editorsâ Preface
Tabula Gratulatoria
Publications of Everett K. Rowson
From Breath to Soul: The Quranic Word Rūḥ and its (Mis)interpretations
Sarra Tlili
The Wiles of Women, The Guile of Men: Re-reading Kayd in SÅ«rat YÅ«suf
Zainab Mahmood
Some Ḥanbalī Views on Secret Marriage
Susan A. Spectorsky
Anta anÄ wa-anÄ minka (âYou are me, and I am from youâ): A Quasi-Nuá¹£ayrÄ« Fragment on the Intellect in the Early IsmÄÊ¿Ä«lÄ« Treatise KitÄb TaʾwÄ«l ḥurÅ«f al-muÊ¿jam
David Hollenberg
The Crucified Speaks: ʿAlī ibn al-Jahm on his Day-Long Exposure at Nishapur
David Larsen
Man Is Not the Only Speaking Animal: Thresholds and Idiom in al-JÄḥiáº
Jeannie Miller
Beyond the Known Limits: Ibn DÄwÅ«d al-Iá¹£fahÄnÄ«âs Chapter on âIntermedialâ Poetry
Lara Harb
Foul Whisperings: Madness and Poetry in Arabic Literary History
Geert Jan van Gelder
Music for the Body, Music for the Soul
Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt
Zoroasterâs Many Languages
Kevin van Bladel
Song and Punishment
Dwight F. Reynolds
Fathers and Husbands
Adam Talib
Writing the Past: Ancient Egypt Through the Lens of Medieval Islamic Thought
Tara Stephan
âThe Mosul Stand-up, or a Riff on a Stiffâ: al-HamadhÄnÄ«âs MaqÄma of Mosul
Michael Cooperson
An Edition of al-HamadhÄnÄ«âs al-MaqÄma al-Mawá¹£iliyya
Bilal Orfali
Sucker of Oneâs Motherâs Clitoris: A Study of a Classical Arabic Insult
John Nawas
Commentators, Collators, and Copyists: Interpreting Manuscript Variation in the
Exordium of al-ḤarÄ«rÄ«âs MaqÄmÄt
Matthew L. Keegan
Going the Extra Mayl: Two Texts on Medieval Dynamics in the Islamic World
Jon McGinnis
âExtremely Beautiful and Extremely Longâ: al-QÄ«rÄá¹Ä«âs Exuberant Letter from the Year
761/1360
Thomas Bauer
Enterprising Sultans and the Doge of Venice: Political Culture and the Patronage of Science and Philosophy in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean
Ali Humayun Akhtar
Contextualizing Muḥammad Ê¿Abduhâs Views on the Family, Marriage, and Divorce
Kenneth M. Cuno
âGo directly home with decorumâ: Conduct Books for Egyptâs Young, ca. 1912
Marilyn Booth
When Jews Attack: Toward a Social Psychology of Inter-Communal Violence in
Yemen
Mark S. Wagner
Scope for Comparatism: Internationalist and Surrealist Resonances in IdwÄr al-KharrÄá¹âs
Resistant Literary Modernity
Hala Halim
Securing Consent: Islamic Development and the Movement to Transform Egypt
James Toth
Index
Editorsâ Preface
Tabula Gratulatoria
Publications of Everett K. Rowson
From Breath to Soul: The Quranic Word Rūḥ and its (Mis)interpretations
Sarra Tlili
The Wiles of Women, The Guile of Men: Re-reading Kayd in SÅ«rat YÅ«suf
Zainab Mahmood
Some Ḥanbalī Views on Secret Marriage
Susan A. Spectorsky
Anta anÄ wa-anÄ minka (âYou are me, and I am from youâ): A Quasi-Nuá¹£ayrÄ« Fragment on the Intellect in the Early IsmÄÊ¿Ä«lÄ« Treatise KitÄb TaʾwÄ«l ḥurÅ«f al-muÊ¿jam
David Hollenberg
The Crucified Speaks: ʿAlī ibn al-Jahm on his Day-Long Exposure at Nishapur
David Larsen
Man Is Not the Only Speaking Animal: Thresholds and Idiom in al-JÄḥiáº
Jeannie Miller
Beyond the Known Limits: Ibn DÄwÅ«d al-Iá¹£fahÄnÄ«âs Chapter on âIntermedialâ Poetry
Lara Harb
Foul Whisperings: Madness and Poetry in Arabic Literary History
Geert Jan van Gelder
Music for the Body, Music for the Soul
Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt
Zoroasterâs Many Languages
Kevin van Bladel
Song and Punishment
Dwight F. Reynolds
Fathers and Husbands
Adam Talib
Writing the Past: Ancient Egypt Through the Lens of Medieval Islamic Thought
Tara Stephan
âThe Mosul Stand-up, or a Riff on a Stiffâ: al-HamadhÄnÄ«âs MaqÄma of Mosul
Michael Cooperson
An Edition of al-HamadhÄnÄ«âs al-MaqÄma al-Mawá¹£iliyya
Bilal Orfali
Sucker of Oneâs Motherâs Clitoris: A Study of a Classical Arabic Insult
John Nawas
Commentators, Collators, and Copyists: Interpreting Manuscript Variation in the
Exordium of al-ḤarÄ«rÄ«âs MaqÄmÄt
Matthew L. Keegan
Going the Extra Mayl: Two Texts on Medieval Dynamics in the Islamic World
Jon McGinnis
âExtremely Beautiful and Extremely Longâ: al-QÄ«rÄá¹Ä«âs Exuberant Letter from the Year
761/1360
Thomas Bauer
Enterprising Sultans and the Doge of Venice: Political Culture and the Patronage of Science and Philosophy in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean
Ali Humayun Akhtar
Contextualizing Muḥammad Ê¿Abduhâs Views on the Family, Marriage, and Divorce
Kenneth M. Cuno
âGo directly home with decorumâ: Conduct Books for Egyptâs Young, ca. 1912
Marilyn Booth
When Jews Attack: Toward a Social Psychology of Inter-Communal Violence in
Yemen
Mark S. Wagner
Scope for Comparatism: Internationalist and Surrealist Resonances in IdwÄr al-KharrÄá¹âs
Resistant Literary Modernity
Hala Halim
Securing Consent: Islamic Development and the Movement to Transform Egypt
James Toth
Index
Anyone interested in Arabic language, philology and literature and in Islamic thought from early Islam to the present.