Arabic Humanities, Islamic Thought

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.

• List of ContributorsEditors’ Preface Tabula GratulatoriaPublications of Everett K. RowsonFrom Breath to Soul: The Quranic Word Rūḥ and its (Mis)interpretations Sarra TliliThe Wiles of Women, The Guile of Men: Re-reading Kayd in Sūrat YūsufZainab MahmoodSome Ḥanbalī Views on Secret MarriageSusan A. SpectorskyAnta 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 Taʾwīl ḥurūf al-muʿjamDavid HollenbergThe Crucified Speaks: ʿAlī ibn al-Jahm on his Day-Long Exposure at NishapurDavid Larsen Man Is Not the Only Speaking Animal: Thresholds and Idiom in al-JāḥiẓJeannie MillerBeyond the Known Limits: Ibn Dāwūd al-Iṣfahānī’s Chapter on “Intermedial” PoetryLara HarbFoul Whisperings: Madness and Poetry in Arabic Literary HistoryGeert Jan van GelderMusic for the Body, Music for the SoulHans Hinrich BiesterfeldtZoroaster’s Many LanguagesKevin van BladelSong and PunishmentDwight F. ReynoldsFathers and HusbandsAdam TalibWriting the Past: Ancient Egypt Through the Lens of Medieval Islamic ThoughtTara Stephan‘The Mosul Stand-up, or a Riff on a Stiff’: al-Hamadhānī’s Maqāma of MosulMichael CoopersonAn Edition of al-Hamadhānī’s al-Maqāma al-MawṣiliyyaBilal OrfaliSucker of One’s Mother’s Clitoris: A Study of a Classical Arabic InsultJohn NawasCommentators, Collators, and Copyists: Interpreting Manuscript Variation in the Exordium of al-Ḥarīrī’s MaqāmātMatthew L. KeeganGoing the Extra Mayl: Two Texts on Medieval Dynamics in the Islamic WorldJon McGinnis“Extremely Beautiful and Extremely Long”: al-Qīrāṭī’s Exuberant Letter from the Year 761/1360Thomas BauerEnterprising Sultans and the Doge of Venice: Political Culture and the Patronage of Science and Philosophy in the Fifteenth-Century MediterraneanAli Humayun AkhtarContextualizing Muḥammad ʿAbduh’s Views on the Family, Marriage, and DivorceKenneth M. Cuno“Go directly home with decorum”: Conduct Books for Egypt’s Young, ca. 1912Marilyn BoothWhen Jews Attack: Toward a Social Psychology of Inter-Communal Violence in YemenMark S. WagnerScope for Comparatism: Internationalist and Surrealist Resonances in Idwār al-Kharrāṭ’s Resistant Literary ModernityHala HalimSecuring Consent: Islamic Development and the Movement to Transform EgyptJames TothIndex

"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)