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The Historian of Islam at Work
Essays in Honor of Hugh N. Kennedy
Series: - Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 198
The Historian of Islam at Work is a volume in honor of Hugh N. Kennedy. It offers thirty contributions by three generations of prominent scholars in the field of pre-modern Middle Eastern studies, covering the many areas of Islamic historical inquiry in which Hugh Kennedy has been active throughout his career. Grouped around four major themes - Caliphate and power, economy and society, Abbasids, and frontiers and the others - the contributions deal with the history, archaeology, architecture and literature of the Middle East, North Africa and beyond, from the time of the Prophet until the fifteenth century.
Maaike van Berkel is Professor of Medieval History at the Radboud University Nijmegen. Her research focuses on administration, communication, and court and urban history in the medieval Middle East.
Letizia Osti is Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Milan. She has published on classical Arabic prose and narrative techniques in biographical collections, historiography, literature, and intersections thereof.
Letizia Osti is Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Milan. She has published on classical Arabic prose and narrative techniques in biographical collections, historiography, literature, and intersections thereof.
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Tabula Gratulatoria
A Lifelong Passion for Islamic History
âMaaike van Berkel and Letizia Osti
Bibliography of Hugh N. Kennedy
1 A Ḥimyarite Restorationist Prophecy
âMichael Cook
2 Kinship, Dynasty and the Umayyads
âAndrew Marsham
3 He Reigned as Caliph; Then He Died: The Reigns of Caliphs Versified
âGeert Jan van Gelder
4 Versifying History in Abbasid Iraq: The Universal History in Verse of ʿAlī b. al-Jahm
âHarry Munt
5 How to Found an Islamic State: The Idrisids and the Rivals to the Caliphate in the Far Islamic West
âCorisande Fenwick
6 Rethinking âthe MamlÅ«k Stateâ with Ibn KhaldÅ«n: âMamlÅ«kizationâ and Ê¿aá¹£abiyya in the Sultanate of Cairo
âJo Van Steenbergen
7 Ibn Khaldūn and the Ḥafṣid Caliphate
âAllen Fromherz
8 A Three-Centered System: Aleppo, Damascus, and Cairo in the Age of the Ayyubids
âR. Stephen Humphreys
9 Informal and Formal Trading Associations in Egypt and IfrÄ«qiya, 850â1150
âChris Wickham
10 Good Governance in Theory and Practice: Comparing AbÅ« YÅ«sufâs KitÄb al-KharÄj with Papyri
âPetra M. Sijpesteijn
11 A Matter of Trust: On Some Principles of Governance in the Letters of Qurra b. Sharīk
âArietta Papacostantinou
12 Calculating the Population of Samarra
âAlastair Northedge
13 Flour for the Caliph: Watermills in the âLand behind Mosulâ
âCristina Tonghini
14 Bedouin, Bandits and Caliphal Disappearance: A Reappraisal of the QarÄmiá¹a and Their Success in Arabia
âPeter Webb
15 ZinÄ and muḥṣanÄt in the Quran
âRichard A. Kimber
16 Muslim Nostalgia: Longing for the Abbasid Past in the Mamluk Era
âRobert Irwin
17 The al-Mustaná¹£iriyya madrasa in Baghdad and Its Founder, al-Mustaná¹£ir
âCarole Hillenbrand
18 HÄrÅ«n al-RashÄ«d in Premodern Arabic Literary Imaginary: Ideology of Monogamy, Harem Politics, and Court Intrigues
âWen-Chin Ouyang
19 Representation of the Barmakids in Bodleian Manuscript Ouseley 217 and Other Monographs
âPejman Firoozbakhsh and Arezou Azad
20 Eutychius of Alexandria Vindicated: Muslim Sources and Christian Arabic Historiography in the Early Islamic Empire
âRobert Hoyland
21 Bureaucrats on the Move: Messengers in Fourth/Tenth-Century Iraq
âMaaike van Berkel, Nadia Maria El Cheikh and Letizia Osti
22 Al-ṬabarÄ«âs Unacknowledged Debt to Ibn AbÄ« ṬÄhir ṬayfÅ«r
âSarah Bowen Savant
23 Heraqleh: A New Interpretation
âAndrew Petersen
24 The Interface between Byzantium and the Ilkhanids in Fourteenth-Century Book Painting
âRobert Hillenbrand
25 Exploring Europe through Medieval Islamic Folk Literature
âNiall Christie
26 The Lordship and Bishopric of Banyas in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (1126â1164)
âAlan V. Murray
27 Fortresses and Frontiers: Castles and Northern Syria in the Sultanate of Cairo
âAngus D. Stewart
28 The Sasanian Fort of PÄnkÄn
âBalázs Major
29 Negotiating the North: Armenian Perspectives on the Conquest Era
âTim Greenwood
30 New Palaeoenvironmental Evidence on the Possible Impact on Agriculture of Early Arab-Islamic Raiding Activity on Crete
âJohn F. Haldon
Index
Notes on Contributors
Tabula Gratulatoria
A Lifelong Passion for Islamic History
âMaaike van Berkel and Letizia Osti
Bibliography of Hugh N. Kennedy
Part 1 Caliphate and Power
1 A Ḥimyarite Restorationist Prophecy
âMichael Cook
2 Kinship, Dynasty and the Umayyads
âAndrew Marsham
3 He Reigned as Caliph; Then He Died: The Reigns of Caliphs Versified
âGeert Jan van Gelder
4 Versifying History in Abbasid Iraq: The Universal History in Verse of ʿAlī b. al-Jahm
âHarry Munt
5 How to Found an Islamic State: The Idrisids and the Rivals to the Caliphate in the Far Islamic West
âCorisande Fenwick
6 Rethinking âthe MamlÅ«k Stateâ with Ibn KhaldÅ«n: âMamlÅ«kizationâ and Ê¿aá¹£abiyya in the Sultanate of Cairo
âJo Van Steenbergen
7 Ibn Khaldūn and the Ḥafṣid Caliphate
âAllen Fromherz
Part 2 Economy and Society
8 A Three-Centered System: Aleppo, Damascus, and Cairo in the Age of the Ayyubids
âR. Stephen Humphreys
9 Informal and Formal Trading Associations in Egypt and IfrÄ«qiya, 850â1150
âChris Wickham
10 Good Governance in Theory and Practice: Comparing AbÅ« YÅ«sufâs KitÄb al-KharÄj with Papyri
âPetra M. Sijpesteijn
11 A Matter of Trust: On Some Principles of Governance in the Letters of Qurra b. Sharīk
âArietta Papacostantinou
12 Calculating the Population of Samarra
âAlastair Northedge
13 Flour for the Caliph: Watermills in the âLand behind Mosulâ
âCristina Tonghini
14 Bedouin, Bandits and Caliphal Disappearance: A Reappraisal of the QarÄmiá¹a and Their Success in Arabia
âPeter Webb
15 ZinÄ and muḥṣanÄt in the Quran
âRichard A. Kimber
Part 3 Abbasids
16 Muslim Nostalgia: Longing for the Abbasid Past in the Mamluk Era
âRobert Irwin
17 The al-Mustaná¹£iriyya madrasa in Baghdad and Its Founder, al-Mustaná¹£ir
âCarole Hillenbrand
18 HÄrÅ«n al-RashÄ«d in Premodern Arabic Literary Imaginary: Ideology of Monogamy, Harem Politics, and Court Intrigues
âWen-Chin Ouyang
19 Representation of the Barmakids in Bodleian Manuscript Ouseley 217 and Other Monographs
âPejman Firoozbakhsh and Arezou Azad
20 Eutychius of Alexandria Vindicated: Muslim Sources and Christian Arabic Historiography in the Early Islamic Empire
âRobert Hoyland
21 Bureaucrats on the Move: Messengers in Fourth/Tenth-Century Iraq
âMaaike van Berkel, Nadia Maria El Cheikh and Letizia Osti
22 Al-ṬabarÄ«âs Unacknowledged Debt to Ibn AbÄ« ṬÄhir ṬayfÅ«r
âSarah Bowen Savant
23 Heraqleh: A New Interpretation
âAndrew Petersen
Part 4 Frontiers and the Others
24 The Interface between Byzantium and the Ilkhanids in Fourteenth-Century Book Painting
âRobert Hillenbrand
25 Exploring Europe through Medieval Islamic Folk Literature
âNiall Christie
26 The Lordship and Bishopric of Banyas in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (1126â1164)
âAlan V. Murray
27 Fortresses and Frontiers: Castles and Northern Syria in the Sultanate of Cairo
âAngus D. Stewart
28 The Sasanian Fort of PÄnkÄn
âBalázs Major
29 Negotiating the North: Armenian Perspectives on the Conquest Era
âTim Greenwood
30 New Palaeoenvironmental Evidence on the Possible Impact on Agriculture of Early Arab-Islamic Raiding Activity on Crete
âJohn F. Haldon
Index
In addition to students of Middle Eastern history, students of Arabic and Greek papyri, Middle Eastern architecture, archaeology, economics, administrative history, literature, manuscripts, A Thousand and One Nights, Armenian history, Eastern Christianity, the Crusades, the global Middle Ages and comparative history of the Middle Ages.