The Islamic Scholarly Tradition. Studies in History, Law, and Thought in Honor of Professor Michael Allan Cook

414 Pages·2011·4.81 MB·English

by  Asad Q. Ahmed

The Islamic Scholarly Tradition
Islamic History
and Civilization
Studies and Texts
Editorial Board
Sebastian Günther
Wadad Kadi
VOLUME 83

Michael Cook, 1976
Michael Cook, 2010
The Islamic Scholarly Tradition
Studies in History, Law, and Thought
in Honor of Professor Michael Allan Cook
Edited by
Asad Q. Ahmed
Behnam Sadeghi
and Michael Bonner
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2011
Cover illustration: Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris: Ms Arabe 6094, folio 167: al-Maqāmāt,
maqāma 46: « Abû Zayd enseignant ». Reproduced with permission.
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The Islamic scholarly tradition studies in history, law, and thought in honor of
Professor Michael Allan Cook / edited by Asad Q. Ahmed, Behnam Sadeghi, and
Michael Bonner.
p. cm. — (Islamic history and civilization. Studies and texts, ISSN 0929-2403 ;
v. 83)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-90-04-19435-9 (hardback : alk. paper)
1. Islam—History. 2. Islamic law. 3. Islamic civilization. I. Cook, M. A.
II. Ahmed, Asad Q. III. Sadeghi, Behnam, 1969– IV. Bonner, Michael. V. Title.
VI. Series.
BP53.I745 2011
297.09—dc22
2010051433
ISSN 0929–2403
ISBN 978 90 04 19435 9
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ............................................................................ ix
Notes on Contributors ...................................................................... xi
Bibliography of Professor Michael A. Cook ................................. xvii
The Scholarship of Michael A. Cook: A Retrospective in
Progress ........................................................................................... xxi
Preface by R. Stephen Humphreys
Introduction ........................................................................................ 1
Michael Bonner
I. STUDIES IN EARLY ISLAMIC HISTORY
“Time Has Come Full Circle”: Markets, Fairs and the
Calendar in Arabia before Islam ................................................ 15
Michael Bonner
The Wasịyya of Abū Hāshim: The Impact of Polemic in
Premodern Muslim Historiography ........................................... 49
Najam Haider
Building an Egyptian Identity ......................................................... 85
Petra M. Sijpesteijn
The Battle of the Ditch (al-Khandaq) of the Cordoban Caliph
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān III ....................................................................... 107
Maribel Fierro
Dreams of Hagia Sophia: The Muslim Siege of Constantinople
in 674 CE, Abū Ayyūb al-Ansạ̄ rī, and the Medieval Islamic
Imagination .................................................................................... 131
Nancy Khalek
vi contents
II. STUDIES IN EARLY MODERN AND MODERN
ISLAMIC HISTORY
“The Second Ottoman Conquest of Egypt”: Rhetoric and
Politics in Seventeenth Century Egyptian Historiography .... 149
Adam Sabra
Ḥabeşī Meḥmed Agha: The First Chief Harem Eunuch
(Darüssaade Ağası) of the Ottoman Empire ............................ 179
Jane Hathaway
“I Entered Mecca . . . and I Destroyed All the Tombs”:
Some Remarks on Saudi-Ottoman Correspondence .............. 197
Samer Traboulsi
III. JURIDICAL AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
The ʿĀqila in Ḥanafī Law: Preliminary Notes .............................. 221
Nurit Tsafrir
Legal Doctrines, Historical Contexts, and Moral Visions:
The Case of Sectarians in the Courts of Law ........................... 239
Nimrod Hurvitz
The Legal Status of Science in the Muslim World in the
Early Modern Period: An Initial Consideration of Fatwās
from Three Maghribī Sources ..................................................... 265
Justin Stearns
IV. REINTERPRETATIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS
“I Have Seen the People’s Antipathy to this Knowledge”:
The Muslim Exegete and His Audience, 5th/11th–7th/
13th Centuries ................................................................................ 293
Karen Bauer
contents vii
Lex Mahomethi: Carnal and Spiritual Representations of
Islamic Law and Ritual in a Twelfth-Century Dialogue by a
Jewish Convert to Christianity .................................................... 315
Leor Halevi
Systematic Growth in Sustained Error: A Case Study in the
Dynamism of Post-Classical Islamic Scholasticism ................. 343
Asad Q. Ahmed
Index .................................................................................................... 379