The Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning: Studies in Honor of Wadad Kadi (original) (raw)
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Dedicated to the achievements of Farhad Daftary, the foremost authority in Ismaili Studies of our time, this volume gathers together a number of studies on intellectual and political history, particularly in the three main areas where the significance of Daftary’s scholarship has had the largest impact – Ismaili Studies as well as Persian Studies and Shi‘i Studies in a wider context. It focuses, but not exclusively, on the intellectual production of the Ismailis and their role in history, with discussions ranging from some of the earliest Ismaili texts, to thinkers from the Fatimid and the Alamut periods as well as relations of the Fatimids with other dynasties. Containing essays from some of the most respected scholars in Ismaili, Shi‘i and Persian Studies (including Patricia Crone, M A Amir-Moezzi, C Edmund Bosworth and Robert Gleave), the book makes a significant contribution to wider scholarship in philosophical theology and medieval Islam. TABLE OF CONTENTS: --PORTRAIT of Farhad Daftary (p. ii) --Foreword (pp. xi-xiii) Azim Nanji --LIST of illustrations (p. xiv) --LIST of contributors (p. xv-xvi) --MAP: Centres of Learning in the Islamic World and other places mentioned in the volume (p. xvii) 1--Introduction: A Biographical Sketch (pp. 1-31) Omar Alí-de-Unzaga 2--Bibliography of the Works of Farhad Daftary (25 pp; books nos. 1-8; edited books nos. 9-14; articles and book chapters ; nos. 15-75; encyclopaedia articles nos. 76-211; book reviews nos. 212-245) (pp. 33-57) 3--Persian, the Other Sacred Language of Islam: Some Brief Notes (pp. 59-75) Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi 4--Sunni Claims to Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq (pp. 77-101) Hamid Algar 5--The Kitab al-Rusum wa’l-izdiwaj wa’l-tartib Attributed to 'Abdan (d. 286/899): Edition of the Arabic Text and Translation (pp. 103-165; Intro 103-110; trans 111-138; Arabic 139-165=1-28) Wilferd Madelung and Paul E. Walker 6--Abu Tammam on the Mubayyida (pp. 167-187) Patricia Crone 7--The Ikhwan al-Safa': Between al-Kindi and al-Farabi (pp. 189-212; table 200) Abbas Hamdani 8--Ibda', Divine Imperative and Prophecy in the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa' (pp. 213-226) Carmela Baffioni 9--Some Aspects of the External Relations of the Qaramita in Bahrayn (pp. 227-260) István Hajnal 10--A Distinguished Slav Eunuch of the Early Fatimid Period: al-Ustadh Jawdhar (pp. 261-273) Hamid Haji 11--Al-Qadi al-Nu'man and His Refutation of Ibn Qutayba (pp. 275-307; Arabic table appendix pp. 304-307) Ismail K. Poonawala 12--The Risala al-Mudhhiba Attributed to al-Qadi al-Nu'man: Important Evidence for the Adoption of Neoplatonism by Fatimid Ismailism at the Time of al-Muʿizz? (pp. 309-341) Daniel De Smet 13--Cosmos into Verse: Two Examples of Islamic Philosophical Poetry in Persian (pp. 343-367) Alice C. Hunsberger 14--Early Evidence for the Reception of Nasir-i Khusraw’s Poetry in Sufism: 'Ayn al-Qudat’s Letter on the Ta'limis (pp. 369-386; translation appendix 375-380) Hermann Landolt 15--A Dream Come True: Empowerment Through Dreams Reflecting Fatimid–Sulayhid Relations (pp. 387-402 Delia Cortese 16--From the ‘Moses of Reason’ to the ‘Khidr of the Resurrection’: The Oxymoronic Transcendent in Shahrastani’s Majlis-i maktub...dar Khwarazm (pp. 416-429; diagrams 41, 416) Leonard Lewisohn 17--Poems of the Resurrection: Hasan-i Maḥmud-i Katib and his Diwan-i Qa'imiyyat (p. 431-442) S. Jalal Badakhchani 18--Further Notes on the Turkish Names in Abu’l-Fadl Bayhaqi’s Tarikh-i Mas'udi (pp. 443-452) C. Edmund Bosworth 19--A Book List from a Seventh/Thirteenth-Century Manuscript Found in Bamyan (pp. 453-458; table 456-458) Iraj Afshar (d. 2011) 20--What’s in a Name? Tughtegin – the ‘Minister of the Antichrist’? (pp. 459-471; figures 466) Carole Hillenbrand 21--Safavids and ‘Subalterns’: The Reclaiming of Voices (pp. 473-490) Andrew J. Newman 22--Compromise and Conciliation in the Akhbari–Usuli Dispute: Yusuf al-Bahrani's Assessment of 'Abd Allah al-Samahiji’s Munyat al-Mumarisin (pp. 491-519; translation 513-514) Robert Gleave -- Bibliography (pp. 521-571; primary 522-544; secondary 544-571) [each source is followed by the initials of the author in whose article it is found] --Index (pp. 573-600) (Cover illustration: Astronomers at work in the observatory of Maragha, from Jami' al-Tawarikh, manuscript in the Golestan Palace Museum, Tehran)
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This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. — Horace Walpole Arabic Thought Beyond the Liberal Age can be viewed as a culmination of the feverish explosion of what has been called " Nahda studies " in the past decades. The compulsion to re-enact the Nahda is declared in fidelity to Albert Hourani's legacy for the intellectual history of the Arabic speaking world. However, the editors, Jens Hanssen and Max Weiss, in their distinctly postcolonial theoretical framing of the book, depart radically from the tradition of intellectual history Hourani worked within. In this regard, the volume can be seen to pay homage to Hourani by bidding him farewell. Although presented as the proceedings of a conference held at Princeton University in Hourani's honor (October 2012), the plan for an intellectual history of Arabic thought proposed by the editors is tethered to their framing in the introduction, which will be the main object of scrutiny here. Due to its significance, this review will focus primarily on the problematics posed by the editors' theoretical framing of the intellectual history of the Nahda, and only secondarily on the individual contributions included in the volume. For it is in the introduction that the editors lay down a framework for rethinking Arabic intellectual history through positing the Nahda as a global concept (37). In their introduction, Weiss and Hanssen lead the reader down a winding path upon which the historical and the logical are intertwined in a thorny thicket of references: