Books and Written Culture of the Islamic World

Andrew Rippin, FRSC, Ph.D. (1981) McGill, is Professor Emeritus, University of Victoria, Canada, and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. His works include The Qur’an and its interpretative tradition (2001), and Muslims, their religious beliefs and practices (4th ed., 2012). Roberto Tottoli, Ph.D. (1996) Naples, is Professor of Islamic studies, Università di Napoli L’Orientale, Italy. His works include Biblical Prophets in the Qur’ān and Muslim Literature (2002) and Catalogue of the Islamic Manuscripts from the Kahle Collection in the University of Turin (2011).

• CONTENTSAbbreviations List of illustrationsList of MapsINTRODUCTIONFrancesco Zappa: Professori emerito Claudio Gilliot Latina dedicatio Roberto Tottoli, Andrew Rippin: Claude Gilliot, a biographical sketch AUTHORSEmilio Platti: Criteria for authenticity of prophecy in ʿAbd al-Masīḥ al-Kindī’s Risāla Michael Lecker: Muḥammad b. Isḥāq ṣāḥib al-maghāzī: was his grandfather Jewish? Pierre Larcher: Les Maʿānī al-Qurʾān d’al-Farrāʾ ou la théologie tempérée par la philologie Andrew Rippin: Al-Mubarrad (d. 285/898) and polysemy in the Qurʾān Abdallah Cheikh-Moussa: Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, l’arabe et le Bédouin Walid Saleh: The Ḥāshiya of Ibn al-Munayyir (d. 683/1284) on al-Kashshāf of al-Zamakhsharī Roberto Tottoli: New light on the translation of the Qur’ān of Ludovico Marracci from his manuscripts recently discovered at the Order of the Mother of God in Rome GENRESMehdi Azaiez: Le contre-discours coranique et la construction d’une figure de l’opposant Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau: Présentation coranique des messages prophétiques anciens : l’attitude de kufr dénoncée Angelika Neuwirth: Locating the Qurʾān in the epistemic space of Late Antiquity Tilman Nagel: Wirkende Worte: Das Ḥadīth und die Metaphysik Reinhart Weipert: Gedanken zur Charakteristik der arabischen gnomischen Poesie der frühen AbbasidenzeitMohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi: Ecrire le secret sans le révéler. Remarques sur le vocabulaire technique de la poésie mystique persane Denis Gril: Ibn Abī l-Iṣbaʿ al-Miṣrī et son traité sur le début des sourates TRADITIONSManfred Kropp: Lisān ʿarabiyy mubīn – “klares Arabisch”? oder: “offenbar Arabisch”, gar “geoffenbartes Arabisch”? Uri Rubin: More light on Muḥammad’s pre-existence: Qurʾānic and post-qurʾānic perspectives Jan van Reeth: La présentation du Prophète au Temple Jane Dammen McAuliffe: Connecting Moses and Muḥammad Jean-Louis Déclais: Moïse et le rocher de la querelle. De la Bible aux récits musulmans Harald Motzki: Ibrāhīm, Umm Ismāʿīl and Ismāʿīl at Mecca: A Contribution to the Problem of dating Muslim Traditions

“Attention-grabbing and compelling in its variety of the issues studied, undeniably provoking in its dealing of old issues from within a modern perspective, this is a book that helps improve our understanding of vital issues concerning not only the three major religions, but the process itself of cultural development and the impact and interaction books and written culture have been having over people.”Stavros Nikolaidis, in: Journal of Oriental and African Studies 24 (2015) 491-494."... eine schöne Gabe für einen der wichtigsten Vertreter des Faches".Rüdiger Lohlkerin, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, vol. 106/2016."... there are two reasons why this volume is significant. First, it is a celebration of a major 'islamologue' of our times and demonstrates the model of his work being articulated. Second, hidden away in this volume are some really interesting works that will be engaging for specialists who might not necessarily pick it up." - Sajjad Rizvi, University of Exeter, in: Al-Abhath 62-63 (2014-2015)