Studies in Islamic and Middle Eastern Texts and Traditions In Memory of Norman Calder

by Hawting, G. R.; Mojaddedi, J. A.; Samely, A.

• ISBN13: 9780199290062
• ISBN10: 0199290067
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This volume of essays in honor of the late Norman Calder contains articles on a variety of topics that will interest scholars and students of Middle Eastern cultures. Contributors are renowned, like Calder, for their sophisticated and challenging approaches to Arabic and Islamic texts.

Author Biography

Gerald Hawting is a Senior Lecturer in the History of the Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental and Asian Studies in London. Jawid Mojaddedi is Lecturer in Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. Alexander Samely is Senior Lecturer in Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester. Norman Calder, who died on 13/2/98 at the age of 47, was one of the leading international scholars in the academic study of Islamic jurisprudence and hermeneutics. At the time of his retirement due to ill health in
1997, he was Senior Lecturer in Arabic in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Manchester (UK) and holder of a British Academy Fellowship. As well as 18 articles in leading academic journals and contributions to several scholarly encyclopaedias, he was the author of Studies in Early Muslim Jurisprudence (Clarendon Press Oxford 1993).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgement	iv
Abbreviations	v
Norman Calder 21 March 1950-13 February 1998	1	(8)
Stefan Sperl
Published works of Norman Calder	9	(2)
Jewish tradition in early Islam: the case of Enoch/Idris	11	(20)
P.S. Alexander
Al-Mu'tasim's `bridge of toil' and Abu Tammam's Amorium qasida	31	(44)
J. Bray
A propos du Kitab al-radd `ala al-Shafi'i attribute a Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn al-Labbad al-Qayrawani (m. 333/944) et des refutations de Shafi'i dans le malikisme ancien	75	(10)
E. Chaumont
The Kharijites and the caliphal title	85	(8)
P. Crone
Narrative and doctrine in the first story of Rumi's Mathnawi	93	(12)
R. Davis
Two classical Shi'i theories of qada'	105	(16)
R. Gleave
Discussion in Islamic law of being prevented from completing a pilgrimage (ihsar)	121	(16)
G.R. Hawting
Fiqh for beginners: an Anatolian text on jihad	137	(12)
C. Imber
In praise of the few	149	(14)
E. Kohlberg
Can rights co-exist with religion?	163	(12)
O. Leaman
Researching Muslim minorities: some reflections on fieldwork in Britain	175	(20)
S. McLoughlin
Jami's re-contextualization of biographical traditions: `the biography of Ansari' in the framework of the Nafahat al-uns	195	(18)
J.A. Mojaddedi
The exegetical literature of abrogation: form and content	213	(20)
A. Rippin
From case to case: notes on the discourse logic of the Mishnah	233	(38)
A. Samely
The defective marriage in classical Hanafi law: issues of form and validity	271	(16)
M. Siddiqui
In celebration of Spring: a poem by al-Sanawbari	287	(10)
S. Sperl
The medieval Karim: an ancient near eastern paradigm?	297
J. Wansbrough