Islamic Studies Presented to Charles J. Adams

Islamic Studies Presented to Charles J. Adams

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Book Description
This tribute to Charles J. Adams from colleagues and students includes essays on numerous aspects of Islamic civilization, beginning with early Islam down to the modern period. The Qur'an receives the attention of five authors: Andrew Rippin focuses on references to the pre-Islamic Hanifs, while Issa Boullata traces poetic citation in Qur'anic exegesis. Sulami's commentary is discussed by Gerhard Bowering, and Hallaq draws attention to the unique place the Qur'an occupied in Shatibi's legal theory. Finally, W.C. Smith looks at the Qur'an from a comparativist perspective. Ulrich Haarmann and Donald P. Little deal, respectively, with the attitudes of medieval Egyptians towards the Pyramids, and the nature of Sufi institutions under the Mamluks. Mehdi Mohaghegh, Hasan Murad and Paul Walker treat philosophical and theological issues, while Eric Ormsby analyzes the structure of experience in Ghazali. Sajida Alvi explores the religious writings of the eighteenth-century Indian scholar Panipati, and Uner Turgay examines Circassian immigration to the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century. Orthodoxy and aberrancy in the Ithna 'Ashari tradition is the subject of Savory's article, and the notion of literature in Arab and Islamic culture is treated by Wickens. Finally, Bernard Weiss compares Islamic and Western conceptions of law.

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Book Contents:

1. Italian Studies on Philo of Alexandria (Ancient Mediterranean and Medieval Texts and Contexts)
2. Italo-Turkish Diplomacy and the War over Libya, 1911-1912 (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia)
3. Jesusuberlieferung Und Christologie: Neutestamentliche Aufsatze 1970-1990 (Supplements to Novum Testamentum)
4. Juvenile Delinquency in Japan: Reconsidering the "Crisis" (Brill's Japanese Studies Library)
5. Leaders and Masses in the Roman World: Studies in Honor of Zvi Yavetz (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)
6. Les Lieux Communs Du Roman: Stereotypes Grecs D'Aventure Et D'Amour (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)
7. Loan Verbs in Maltese: A Descriptive and Comparative Study (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics)
8. Medicine and Hygiene in the Works of Flavius Josephus (Studies in Ancient Medicine, Vol 9)
9. Medieval and Renaissance Humanism: Rhetoric, Representation, and Reform (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)
10. Medieval and Renaissance Letter Treatises and Form Letters: A Census of Manuscripts Found in Part of Western Europe, Japan, and the United States of (Davis Medieval Texts and Studies, V. 9)

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