The Making of a Forefather

Biographical note Readership Reviews

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xvi, 312 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Shari L. Lowin, Ph.D. (2002) in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Stonehill College. She researches and publishes on topics relating to intertextual Islamic-Jewish studies, focusing mainly on classical exegesis.

Readership

All those interested in intellectual history and intertextual comparative religion; Islamicists, scholars of rabbinics and midrash, laymen interested in Muslim and Jewish scriptural exegesis and the development of Muslim-Jewish relations.

Reviews

"This is a valuable book, and not only because of its careful and cogent reading. Lowin also discussed traditional and current theories of intertextuality in her introduction."
Reuven Firestone in Journal of Jewish Studies 60.1 (2009).

"...ein gelungenes Werk, das sowohl dem Spezialisten wie auch dem Laien empfohlen sei."
Alphons Teipen in Sehepunkte 9.7-8 (2009).

"...une source désormais incontournable de l'étude de la prophétologie en islam."
Pierre Lory in BCAI 23 (2009).

“The essay is very important especially for the chronological reconstruction of the mutual borrowings and the accurate analysis of how certain motifs travelled from Judaism to Islam and then back […].”
Rosanna Budelli in Islamochristiana 38 (2012).

€103.00$133.00

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104

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004229266

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Al-Ḥīra

Isabel Toral-Niehoff, Freie Universität Berlin

In al-Ḥīra. Eine arabische Kulturmetropole im spätantiken Kontext, Isabel Toral-Niehoff draws a vivid portrait of this multicultural Late Antique Arab city located in the frontier zone between Byzantium and Iran and emphasizes its significance for Arab culture and early Islam. In al-Ḥīra. Eine ...

€114.00$148.00

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Volume:

103

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004255364

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Mysticism and Philosophy in al-Andalus

Michael Ebstein, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

In Mysticism and Philosophy in al-Andalus, Michael Ebstein underscores the many links that connect the intellectual world of the Andalusi mystics Ibn Masarra (269/883-319/931) and Ibn al-ʿArabi (560/1165-638/1240) to the Ismāʿīlī tradition.

€109.00$141.00

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Volume:

102

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004252714

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Crisis and Continuity at the Abbasid Court

Maaike van Berkel, University of Amsterdam, Nadia El Cheikh, American University Beirut, Hugh Kennedy, SOAS, London and Letizia Osti, University of Milan

The reign of al-Muqtadir (295-320/908-32) is a crucial epoch in Abbasid history. Four scholars question the picture of decline attached to this period, exploring the formal and informal power relationships that shaped politics at the court of this caliph.

€199.00$277.00

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Volume:

101

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004211407

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New Title

Mālik and Medina

Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf, Nawawi Foundation

This book studies the legal reasoning of Mālik ibn Anas. It emphasizes that the Sunnī schools of law emerged during the formative period as independent legal methodologies.

€136.00$189.00

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Volume:

100

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004234154

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Al-Māturīdī and the Development of Sunnī Theology in Samarqand

Ulrich Rudolph, University of Zurich, translated by Rodrigo Adem, University of Chicago

In this book Ulrich Rudolph offers an analysis of al-Maturidi's (d. 944 CE) eminent contribution to the formation of Sunni theology.

€96.00$133.00

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ISBN13:

9789004230668

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The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period

Suleiman A. Mourad, Smith College and James E. Lindsay, Colorado State University

The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology provides an account of the preaching of a revitalized vision of jihad in Crusader-era Syria by Sunni scholars, including Ibn ʿAsākir, as a major propaganda tool of the Counter-Crusade and Sunni revival.

€203.00$282.00

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ISBN13:

9789004233614

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New Title

The Comfort of the Mystics

Gerhard Böwering, Yale University and Bilal Orfali, American University of Beirut

This work is a critical Arabic text edition of Salwat al-ʿārifīn wa-uns al-mushtāqīn, a manual of early Sufism by Abū Khalaf al-Ṭabarī (d. ca. 470/1077). It is an integral part of Sufi literature and reflects Islamic developments in Nishapur in northeastern Iran.

€107.00$149.00

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ISBN13:

9789004234178

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Through the Eyes of the Beholder

Edited by Judy A. Hayden, University of Tampa and Nabil I. Matar, University of Minnesota

The collection is the first to bring together a number of accounts about the Holy Land written by early modern authors from different religious and regional backgrounds.

€101.00$140.00

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ISBN13:

9789004221505

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Herbal Medicine in Yemen

Edited by Ingrid Hehmeyer, Ryerson University, and Hanne Schönig, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, with the collaboration of Anne Regourd, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Traditional medicine in Yemen is largely plant-based. Fourteen scholars represent both humanities and natural sciences in studying herbal medicines and their multifaceted applications within traditional Yemeni society. Approaches are based on textual analysis, empirical research and laboratory ...

€168.00$234.00

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ISBN13:

9789004218857

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The Lineaments of Islam

Edited by Paul M. Cobb, University of Pennsylvania

In honor of Fred M. Donner's distinguished career as an interpreter of early Islam, this volume collects more than a dozen studies by his students. They range over a wide array of sub-fields in Islamic studies, including Islamic history, historiography, Islamic law, Qur'anic studies and ...