Islam on the margins : studies in memory of Michael Bonner / edited by Robert Haug, Steven Judd.

"Islam on the Margins commemorates the contributions Michael Bonner made to Near Eastern Studies. It consists of fourteen contributions by his students and colleagues that focus on various aspects of his work. The contributions coalesce around four major themes of Bonner's endeavours: Holy...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Bonner, Michael, 1952-2019 (honouree.), Haug, Robert (Editor), Judd, Steven C. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
Series:Islamic history and civilization ; v. 204.
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Table of Contents:
  • Michael Bonner, 1952-2019 / Daniela Gobetti
  • Bibliography of Michael Bonner's publications
  • Part 1. Holy war and frontiers
  • Siyar: an ephemeral genre of Islamic legal literature? / Steven Judd
  • The Armenian sources of al-Balādhurī's Kitāb Futūḥ al-buldān: a study of the Islamic incursions into Armenia, Georgia, and Albania (22-24AH/642-645CE) / Alison M. Vacca
  • Aristocratic violence and ribāṭ in Sāmānid Central Asia / Robert Haug
  • Part 2. The Quran and law: doctrine and practice
  • Genre boundaries and Sura structure in the Quran / Karim Samji
  • Demons, Jinn and figures of evil in the Qurʼān / Guillaume Dye
  • Law and Sufism in the Maghrib, ca. 829/1425 / David S. Powers
  • Part 3. Geography and ethnography
  • Al-Jāḥiẓ and identity / John P. Turner
  • The boundaries and geographies of Medieval Blackness / Kristina Richardson
  • Ptolemaeus Triumphans, or: maps, knowledge, and Ottoman patronage / Gottfried Hagen
  • Part 4. Books, coins, and titles
  • Titles of honor and status in the Fatimid realm / Paul E. Walker
  • Sikka denied: a numismatic appraisal of al-Qādir billāh's reception / Eric J. Hanne
  • Mongol money in Seljuk Sivas / Rudi Paul Lindner
  • A library in fragments: an inventory of the al-Baʿṭūrī Family & library in Djerba, Tunisia / Paul M. Love, Jr.