From Ancient Near East to Early Islamic History

The Ancient Near East and Early Islamic History

• GEOFFREY HERMAN: “There we sat down”: Mapping Settlement Patterns in Sasanian Babylonia
• FRANCESCA ROCHBERG: The Near Eastern Heritage in Greco-Roman Astronomy
• DAVID F. GRAF: Arabia before Islam
• G. W. BOWERSOCK: The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Kingdom in Arabia
• HENNING TRÜPER: Entanglements of Classics and Orientalism in the History of Philology, and of Princeton University, circa 1900
• MURIEL DEBIE: For a Different History of the Seventh Century CE: Syriac Sources and Sasanian and Arab-Muslim Occupation of the Middle East
• STELIOS MICHALOPOULOS: Trade and Geography in the Origins and Spread of Islam
• CARLO SCARDINO: New Insights into the Continuation of Ancient Science among the Arabs
• D. G. TOR: The Empire Strikes Back: The Restoration of Caliphal Political Power in the Medieval Islamic World

The Bible and the Qurʾān

• KONRAD SCHMID: Who Wrote the Torah? Textual, Historical, Sociological, and Ideological Cornerstones of the Formation of the Pentateuch
• STEFAN SCHORCH: Is a Qibla a Qibla? Samaritan Traditions about Mount Garizim in Contact and Contention 95  SABINE SCHMIDTKE: Muslim Perceptions and Receptions of the Bible
• ROBERTO TOTTOLI: Editing the Qurʾān in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe
• GEORGES TAMER: The Concept of Time in the Qurʾān 118
• G. W. BOWERSOCK: The Voice of God

Islamic Intellectual History Within and Beyond Denominational Borders

• SONJA BRENTJES: Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens in Eurasia and North Africa
• KHALED EL-ROUAYHEB: Rethinking the Canons of Islamic Intellectual History
• SABINE SCHMIDTKE: The People of Justice and Monotheism: Muʿtazilism in Islam and Judaism
• KELLY DEVINE THOMAS: The Necessity of a Historical Approach to Islamic Theology: Tracing Modern Islamic Thought to the Middle Ages
• GARTH FOWDEN: Abraham and Aristotle in Dialogue
• FRÉDÉRIQUE WOERTHER: What Makes an Orator Trustworthy? Some Notes on the Transmission of Aristotle’s Rhetoric in the Arabic World and Its Interpretation by al-Fārābī
• FRANÇOIS DE BLOIS: Aristotle and Avicenna on the Habitability of the Southern Hemisphere
• EMMA GANNAGÉ: Physical Theory and Medical Practice in the Post-Avicenna Era: Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq al-Isrāʾīlī on Properties (Exploratory Notes)
• FRANK GRIFFEL: Was Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī an Averroist after All? On the Double-Truth Theory in Medieval Latin and Islamic Thought
• SAMER TRABOULSI: The Challenges of Druze Studies

Arabic and other Semitic Languages and Literatures

• MAURICE A. POMERANTZ: Chasing after a Trickster: The Maqāmāt between Philology and World Literature
• BILAL ORFALI: Employment Opportunities in Literature in Tenth-Century Islamic Courts 243SEBASTIAN GÜNTHER: “A Glimpse of the Mystery of Mysteries”: Ibn Ṭufayl on Learning and Spirituality without Prophets and Scriptures
• GEOFFREY A. KHAN: Aramaic and Endangered Languages 262GEORGE A. KIRAZ: Dots in the Writing Systems of the Middle East
• WILL HANLEY: Unlocking Middle Eastern Names

Islamic Religious and Legal Practices, Law and Society

• ZOLTAN SZOMBATHY: Jurists on Literature and Men of Letters on Law: The Interfaces of Islamic Law and Medieval Arabic Literature
• MARION KATZ: Law, Ethics, and the Problem of Domestic Labor in the Islamic Marriage Contract
• HASSAN ANSARI: The Shiʿite Interpretation of the Status of Women 300ANVER M. EMON: Islamic Law and Private International Law: The Case of International Child Abduction
• VANJA HAMZIĆ: A Renaissance Interrupted? Debating Personhood through a Sexual Act in the Twelfth-Century Christianate and Islamicate Worlds 308MARGARET S. GRAVES: Say Something Nice: Supplications on Medieval Objects, and Why They Matter
• BIRGIT KRAWIETZ: Ten Theses on Working with Demons (Jinn) in Islamic Studies 331BABER JOHANSEN :The Invisibility of Paternal Filiation: The Power of Institutions versus Scientific Proof in Roman and Muslim Law
• RAINER BRUNNER: Joseph Schacht and German Orientalism in the 1920s and 1930s

The Islamic West and Beyond

• MARIBEL FIERRO: The Other Edge: The Maghrib in the Mashriq
• DEVIN J. STEWART: Identifying “the Mufti of Oran”: A Detective Story
• MERCEDES GARCÍA-ARENAL: Castilian and Arabic: The Debates about the Natural Languages of Spain
• PATRICK J. O’BANION: Peace and Quiet in Castile: Baptized Muslims, Feudal Lords, and the Royal Expulsion
• VALERIE GONZALEZ: The Hermeneutics of Islamic Ornament: The Example of the Alhambra

The Ottoman World and Beyond

• AMY SINGER: Edirne/Adrianople: The Best City in Greece 390
• JANE HATHAWAY: The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Imperial Harem
• EMINE FETVACI: Persian Aesthetics in Ottoman Albums
• YÜCEL YANIKDAĞ: Syphilis as Measure of Civilization and Progress? Ottoman-Turkish Responses to European Medical Discourses on the General Paresis of the Insane
• PETER B. GOLDEN: The Construction of Ethnicity in Medieval Turkic Eurasia 420RON SELA: Tamerlane’s (Fictitious) Pilgrimage to the Tombs of the Prophets
• ADAM SABRA: Building a Family Shrine in Ottoman Cairo

Iranian and Persianate Studies

• ANDREA PIRAS: The Shaping of the Holy Self: Art and Religious Life in Manichaeism
• HASSAN ANSARI: Patricia Crone’s Contribution to Iranian Studies
• DANIEL J. SHEFFIELD: Lord of the Planetary Court: Revisiting a “Nativist Prophet” of Early Modern Iran
• RUDI MATTHEE: Nādir Shāh in Iranian Historiography: Warlord or National Hero? 467NEGIN NABAVI: The Birth of Newspaper Culture in Nineteenth-Century Iran
• VERA B. MOREEN: A Brief History of Judeo-Persian Literature

The Modern Middle East and Islam in the West

• ISRAEL GERSHONI: Liberal Democratic Legacies in Modern Egypt: The Role of the Intellectuals, 1900–1950
• BERNARD HAYKEL: ISIS and al-Qaeda—What Are They Thinking? Understanding the Adversary
• THOMAS HEGGHAMMER: Jihadi Weeping
• NOAH SALOMON: For Love of the Prophet: A Reply
• ILANA FELDMAN: Living in a Humanitarian World: Palestinian Refugees and the Challenge of Long-Term Displacement
• DIDIER FASSIN: The Multiple Figures of the Witness in Palestine
• CATHERINE ROTTENBERG: Hagar: Jewish-Arab Education for Equality, Creating a Common Future in Israel
• JOAN WALLACH SCOTT: La Nouvelle Laïcité and Its Critics: Preface to the French Translation of The Politics of the Veil