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Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Criticism, interpretation, etc [Browse]
• Islam—History [Browse]
• Islam—Historiography [Browse]
• Islamic law [Browse]

Honoree

• Donner, Fred McGraw, 1945- [Browse]

Editor

• Cobb, Paul M., 1967- [Browse]

Series

• Islamic history and civilization ; v. 95. [More in this series]
• Islamic history and civilization, 0929-2403 ; v. 95 [More in this series]

Summary note

In honor of Fred M. Donner's distinguished career as an interpreter of early Islam, this volume collects more than a dozen studies by his students. They range over a wide array of sub-fields in Islamic studies, including Islamic history, historiography, Islamic law, Qur'anic studies and Islamic aracheology.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction : Narratives of Fred McGraw Conner / Paul M. Cobb
• Bibliography of the works of Fred McGraw Donner
• Who was the Shepherd of Damascus? The enigma of Jewish and Messianist responses to the Islamic conquests in Marwānid Syria and Mesopotomia / Sean W. Anthony
• Political anarchism, dissent, and marginal groups in the early ninth century : the Ṣūfīs of the Muʻtazila revisited / Hayrettin Yücesoy
• Scholars and charlatans on the Baghdad-Khurasan circuit from the ninth to the eleventh centuries / Jonathan A.C. Brown
• Were the Ismāʻīlī assassins the first suicide attackers? An examination of their recorded assassinations / David Cook
• Identity crisis of Abū Bakra : Mawlā of the Prophet, or polemical tool? / Elizabeth Urban
• Writing the history of the futūḥ : the futūḥ-works by al-Azdī, Ibn Aʻtham, and al-Wāqidī / Jens Scheiner
• In defense of Muʻāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān : treatises and monographs on Muʻāwiya from the eighth to the nineteenth centuries / Aram A. Shahin-- The Umayyads and ʻAbbāsids in Mujīr al-Dīn's fifteenth-century history of Jerusalem and Hebron / Robert Schick
• Reproducing power : Qurʼānic anthropogonies in comparison / Kathryn Kueny
• Narratives of villainy : Titus, Nebuchadnezzar, and Nimrod in the ḥadīth and midrash aggadah / Shari L. Lowin
• Qurʼānic rhetoric in ninth-century Muslim-Byzantine diplomacy : al-Maʼmūn's letter to Theophilus in 833 CE / Vanessa De Gifis
• Ibāḍī Fiqh scholarship in context / Brannon Wheeler
• The ḥadd penalty for zinā : symbol or deterrent? Texts from the early sixteenth century / Marion Holmes Katz
• The revolt of al-Ḥārith ibn Surayj and the countermarking of Umayyad Dirhams in early eighth century CE Khurāsān / Stuart D. Sears
• The riddle of early Islamic Ascalon : where is it and what does Coptic glazed ware tell us about it? / Tracy Hoffman
• Ḥiṣn, ribāṭ, thaghr or qaṣr? Semantics and systems of frontier fortifications in the early Islamic period / Asa Eger
• Descriptions of the Pharos of Alexandria in Islamic and Chinese sources : collective memory and textual transmission / Tasha Vorderstrasse.

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ISBN

• 9789004218857 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
• 9004218858 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2012015413

OCLC

793099491

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