Historian of Islam at Work

Historian of Islam at Work

Essays in Honor of Hugh N. Kennedy

Berkel, Maaike van; Osti, Letizia

Brill

09/2022

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Inglês

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List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Tabula Gratulatoria

A Lifelong Passion for Islamic History

?Maaike van Berkel and Letizia Osti

Bibliography of Hugh N. Kennedy

Part 1 Caliphate and Power



1 A ?imyarite Restorationist Prophecy

?Michael Cook



2 Kinship, Dynasty and the Umayyads

?Andrew Marsham



3 He Reigned as Caliph; Then He Died: The Reigns of Caliphs Versified

?Geert Jan van Gelder



4 Versifying History in Abbasid Iraq: The Universal History in Verse of ?Ali b. al-Jahm

?Harry Munt



5 How to Found an Islamic State: The Idrisids and the Rivals to the Caliphate in the Far Islamic West

?Corisande Fenwick



6 Rethinking "the Mamluk State" with Ibn Khaldun: "Mamlukization" and ?a?abiyya in the Sultanate of Cairo

?Jo Van Steenbergen



7 Ibn Khaldun and the ?af?id Caliphate

?Allen Fromherz



Part 2 Economy and Society



8 A Three-Centered System: Aleppo, Damascus, and Cairo in the Age of the Ayyubids

?R. Stephen Humphreys



9 Informal and Formal Trading Associations in Egypt and Ifriqiya, 850-1150

?Chris Wickham



10 Good Governance in Theory and Practice: Comparing Abu Yusuf's Kitab al-Kharaj with Papyri

?Petra M. Sijpesteijn



11 A Matter of Trust: On Some Principles of Governance in the Letters of Qurra b. Sharik

?Arietta Papacostantinou



12 Calculating the Population of Samarra

?Alastair Northedge



13 Flour for the Caliph: Watermills in the "Land behind Mosul"

?Cristina Tonghini



14 Bedouin, Bandits and Caliphal Disappearance: A Reappraisal of the Qarami?a and Their Success in Arabia

?Peter Webb



15 Zina and mu??anat in the Quran

?Richard A. Kimber



Part 3 Abbasids



16 Muslim Nostalgia: Longing for the Abbasid Past in the Mamluk Era

?Robert Irwin



17 The al-Mustan?iriyya madrasa in Baghdad and Its Founder, al-Mustan?ir

?Carole Hillenbrand



18 Harun al-Rashid in Premodern Arabic Literary Imaginary: Ideology of Monogamy, Harem Politics, and Court Intrigues

?Wen-Chin Ouyang



19 Representation of the Barmakids in Bodleian Manuscript Ouseley 217 and Other Monographs

?Pejman Firoozbakhsh and Arezou Azad



20 Eutychius of Alexandria Vindicated: Muslim Sources and Christian Arabic Historiography in the Early Islamic Empire

?Robert Hoyland



21 Bureaucrats on the Move: Messengers in Fourth/Tenth-Century Iraq

?Maaike van Berkel, Nadia Maria El Cheikh and Letizia Osti



22 Al-?abari's Unacknowledged Debt to Ibn Abi ?ahir ?ayfur

?Sarah Bowen Savant



23 Heraqleh: A New Interpretation

?Andrew Petersen



Part 4 Frontiers and the Others



24 The Interface between Byzantium and the Ilkhanids in Fourteenth-Century Book Painting

?Robert Hillenbrand



25 Exploring Europe through Medieval Islamic Folk Literature

?Niall Christie



26 The Lordship and Bishopric of Banyas in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (1126-1164)

?Alan V. Murray



27 Fortresses and Frontiers: Castles and Northern Syria in the Sultanate of Cairo

?Angus D. Stewart



28 The Sasanian Fort of Pankan

?Balazs Major



29 Negotiating the North: Armenian Perspectives on the Conquest Era

?Tim Greenwood



30 New Palaeoenvironmental Evidence on the Possible Impact on Agriculture of Early Arab-Islamic Raiding Activity on Crete

?John F. Haldon



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