Islamic Cultures, Islamic Contexts

Behnam Sadeghi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion, Stanford University.Asad Q. Ahmed is Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, the University of California, Berkeley.Robert Hoyland is Professor of the Late Antique and Early Islamic History of the Middle East at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University.Adam Silverstein is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History at Bar Ilan University.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionBehnam Sadeghi, Asad Q. Ahmed, Robert Hoyland, Adam SilversteinVariant Traditions, Relative Chronology and the Study of Intra-Quranic parallelsJoseph WitztumThe Earliest Attestation of the Dhimma of God and His Messenger and the Rediscovery of P. Nessana 77 (AH 60s/AD 680)Robert Hoyland with Appendix by Hannah CottonJewish Christianity and Islamic OriginsGuy StroumsaA Note on the Relationship Between Tafsīr and Documentary Evidence With Reference to Contracts of MarriageKaren BauerEarnest Money’ and the Sources of Islamic LawGerald Hawting and David EisenbergA Bequest May Not Exceed One-Third’: An Isnād-cum-Matn Analysis – and BeyondPavel Pavlovich and David PowersBasra and Kufa as the Earliest Centers of Islamic Legal ControversyChristopher MelchertGod's Cleric: Al-Fuḍayl b. ʿIyāḍ and the Transition from Caliphal to Prophetic SunnaDeborah TorAḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn and the Politics of DeferenceMatthew GordonEighth-Century Indian Astronomy in the Two Cities of PeaceKevin van BladelGreek Language and Education Under Early IslamMaria MavroudiKalām and the GreeksFritz Zimmermann‘Arabs’ and ‘Iranians’: The Uses of Ethnicity in the Early Abbasid PeriodMichael CoopersonThe Poetics of Cultural Identity: Al-Mutanabbī among the BūyidsMargaret LarkinMust God Tell Us the Truth? A Problem in Ash‘arī TheologyKhaled El RouayhebAdministrators’ Time: The Social Memory of the Early Medieval State, East and WestChris WickhamAn Eleventh-Century Justification of the Authority of Twelver Shiite JuristsDevin StewartA Family Story: Ambiguities of Jewish Identity in Medieval IslamDavid WassersteinWhat happened in al-Andalus: Minorities in al-Andalus and in Christian SpainDavid AbulafiaThe Samaritan Version of the Esther StoryAdam SilversteinNew Evidence for the Survival of Sexually Libertine Rites among some Nuṣayrī-ʿAlawīs of the Nineteenth CenturyBella TendlerCrone and the End of OrientalismChase RobinsonPatricia Crone – A Brief MemoirJudith HerrinTabula GratulatoriaBiographies

"Das Buch kommt zur rechten Zeit, denn es setzt Zeichen für die Beschäftigung mit frühislamischer Geschichte, die während der vergangenen vier Jahrzehnte, während Patricia Crones akademischer Tätigkeit und maßgeblich von ihr mitgeprägt, einen Aufschwung erlebt hat, vielleicht durch sie ganz neu ins Leben gerufen ist, wie Chase Robinson in einem abschließenden Kapitel feststellt („Crone and the End of Orientalism“). So ist diese Festschrift, abgesehen vom Wert ihrer Beiträge für sich, ein würdiges Dokument für die Lebensleistung einer der ganz großen Vertreterinnen der Islamwissenschaft im 20. und frühen 21. Jahrhundert." - Lucian Reinfandt, in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Vol. 106 (2016)