Includes bibliographical references and index The Meccan prison of 'Abdallah b. al-Zubayr and the imprisonment of Muhammad b. al-Hanafiyya Single isnads or riwayas quoted books in Ibn 'Asakir's tarjama of Tamim al-dari Friendship in the service of governance: makarim al-akhlaq in Abbasid political culture Prinzen, Prinzessinnen, Konkubinen und Eunuchen am fatimidischen Hof A new Latin-Arabic document from Norman Sicily (November 595 h/1198 ; Ce) Religion, law, and Islamic thought: The rhetorical Qur'an or orality as a theologumenon The "shearing of forelocks" as a penitential rite Authority in Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani's Kitab al-nawadir wa-l-ziyadat: 'Ala ma fi l-mudawwana min ghayriha min al-ummahat: the case of "the Chapter of judgments" (kitab al-aqdiya) A segment of the genealogy of sunni hadith criticism: the mysterious relationship between al-Khatib al-Baghdadi and al-Hakim al-Naysaburi Al-hakim al-Naysaburi and the companions of the Prophet: an original Sunni voice in the Shi'i century Ibn Rushd and Thomas Aquinas on education Teaching the learned: Jalal al-Din al-Dawani's ijaza to mu'ayyadzada : 'Abd al-Rahman Efendi and the circulation of knowledge between Fars and the Ottoman empire at the turn of the sixteenth century Scholars in networks: 'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi and his travels Rhetorics of revival: al-Ghazali and his modern heirs Language, literature, and heritage ; Grammarians on the af'al al-muqaraba: steps in the sources towards a subdivision of operants Reflections on the lives and deaths of two Umayyad poets: Layla al-Akhyaliyya and Tawba b. al-Humayyir Literature and thought: re-reading al-Tawhidi's transcription of the debate between logic and grammar The play of genre: a maqama of "ease after hardship" from the eighth/fourteenth century and its literary context What's in a Mamluk picture? the hall of portraiture at the cairo Citadel remembered In defense of the use of Qur'an in adab: Ibn Abi l-Lutf's raf' al-iltibas 'an munkir al-iqtibas Modes of existence of the poetry in the Arabian Nights Modern Arabic literature and Islam Abraham and the sacrificial son: transtextual strategies in Jose Saramago's the gospel according to Jesus Christ and Elias Khoury's As though she were sleeping The ideological and epistemological: contemporary readings in Arabo-Islamic classical heritage (turath) | 
