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Islamic Cultures, Islamic ContextsEssays in Honor of Professor Patricia CroneEdited by Behnam Sadeghi, Stanford University; Asad Q. Ahmed, University of California, Berkeley; Adam Silverstein, Bar Ilan University; and Robert Hoyland, New York UniversityThis volume brings together articles on various aspects of the intellectual and socialhistories of Islamicate societies and of the traditions and contexts that contributed to theirformation and evolution. Written by leading scholars who span three generations andwho cover such diverse fields as Late Antique Studies, Islamic Studies, Classics, and JewishStudies, the volume is a testament to the breadth and to the sustained, deep impact of thecorpus of the honoree, Professor Patricia Crone.Contributors are: David Abulafia, Asad Q. Ahmed, Karen Bauer, Michael Cooperson, Hannah Cotton, David M. Eisenberg, Khaled El-Rouayheb, Matthew S. Gordon, Gerald Hawting, Judith Herrin, Robert Hoyland, Bella Tendler Krieger, Margaret Larkin, Maria Mavroudi, Christopher Melchert, Pavel Pavlovitch, David Powers, Chase Robinson, Behnam Sadeghi, Adam Silverstein, Devin Stewart, Guy Stroumsa, D. G. Tor, Kevin van Bladel, David J. Wasserstein, Chris Wickam, Joseph Witztum, F. W. Zimmermann&#160;Biographical noteBehnam Sadeghi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion, Stanford University.Asad Q. Ahmed is Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, the University of California, Berkeley.Robert Hoyland is Professor of the Late Antique and Early Islamic History of the Middle East at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University.Adam Silverstein is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History at Bar Ilan University.ReadershipAll interested in the social and intellectual history of Islamic Civilization, broadly conceived.Table of contentsIntroductionBehnam Sadeghi, Asad Q. Ahmed, Robert Hoyland, Adam SilversteinVariant Traditions, Relative Chronology and the Study of Intra-Quranic parallelsJoseph WitztumThe Earliest Attestation of the Dhimma of God and His Messenger and the Rediscovery of P. Nessana 77 (AH 60s/AD 680)Robert Hoyland with Appendix by Hannah CottonJewish Christianity and Islamic OriginsGuy StroumsaA Note on the Relationship Between Tafsīr and Documentary Evidence With Reference to Contracts of MarriageKaren BauerEarnest Money’ and the Sources of Islamic LawGerald Hawting and David EisenbergA Bequest May Not Exceed One-Third’: An Isnād-cum-Matn Analysis – and BeyondPavel Pavlovich and David PowersBasra and Kufa as the Earliest Centers of Islamic Legal ControversyChristopher MelchertGod's Cleric: Al-Fuḍayl b. ʿIyāḍ and the Transition from Caliphal to Prophetic SunnaDeborah TorAḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn and the Politics of DeferenceMatthew GordonEighth-Century Indian Astronomy in the Two Cities of PeaceKevin van BladelGreek Language and Education Under Early IslamMaria MavroudiKalām and the GreeksFritz Zimmermann‘Arabs’ and ‘Iranians’: The Uses of Ethnicity in the Early Abbasid PeriodMichael CoopersonThe Poetics of Cultural Identity: Al-Mutanabbī among the BūyidsMargaret LarkinMust God Tell Us the Truth? A Problem in Ash‘arī TheologyKhaled El RouayhebAdministrators’ Time: The Social Memory of the Early Medieval State, East and WestChris WickhamAn Eleventh-Century Justification of the Authority of Twelver Shiite JuristsDevin StewartA Family Story: Ambiguities of Jewish Identity in Medieval IslamDavid WassersteinWhat happened in al-Andalus: Minorities in al-Andalus and in Christian SpainDavid AbulafiaThe Samaritan Version of the Esther StoryAdam SilversteinNew Evidence for the Survival of Sexually Libertine Rites among some Nuṣayrī-ʿAlawīs of the Nineteenth CenturyBella TendlerCrone and the End of OrientalismChase RobinsonPatricia Crone – A Brief MemoirJudith HerrinTabula GratulatoriaBiographiesInfosISBN13: 9789004252011Publication Date: November 2014Copyright Year: 2015Format: HardbackPublication Type: BookPages, Illustr.: Approx. 655 pp., 4 illus.Imprint: BRILLLanguage: English