Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta

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Vol. 31 (2023)
Published February 13, 2023
Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā
Masthead & Table of Contents
November 2, 2023
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MEM Awards

András Riedlmayer
iv-vii
Remarks by the Recipient of the 2022 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award
November 2, 2023
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Research Articles

Phillip W. Stokes
1-44
Key to the Kingdom: Variation as a Key to Understanding the Arabic Gospel Manuscripts
February 13, 2023
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Nathaniel A. Miller
45-76
Dear Muʿāwiya: An “Epistolary” Poem on a Major Muslim Military Defeat during the Mediterranean Campaigns of AH 28–35/649–56 CE
March 13, 2023
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Ilkka Lindstedt
77-95
Reconsidering Islām and Dīn in the Medinan Qurʾan
March 21, 2023
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Lamia Balafrej
96-126
Instrumental Jawārī: On Gender, Slavery, and Technology in Medieval Arabic Sources
September 6, 2023
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Jocelyn Hendrickson
127-191
Fatwās on Jihād from Premodern Morocco: Introduction and Critical Edition of an Excerpt from al-Zayyātī’s Selected Jewels
October 30, 2023
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Pedagogy Files

Elizabeth Dospel Williams
192-207
Textile Mobilities across Medieval Afro-Eurasia
November 2, 2023
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Conference Reports

Shireen Hamza
208-213
Sexual Knowledge in the Islamic World: Historical Perspectives
November 2, 2023
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Nadine Löhr
214-219
The Mongols’ Baghdad: Knowledge Transmission through Manuscript Cultures Before and After the Conquest
November 2, 2023
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Kerstin Hünefeld, Ekaterina Pukhovaia
220-223
State-building, Political Thought and the Other in Muslim Imperial Peripheries
November 2, 2023
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Book Reviews

Owen Wright
224-227
Review of Nielson, Music and Musicians & Reynolds, Medieval Arab Music and Musicians
November 2, 2023
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Daniel Varisco
228-231
Review of Ibn al-Mujāwir, Ṣifat bilād al-Yaman wa-Makka
November 2, 2023
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Jane Mikkelson
232-235
Review of Williams, The Masnavi of Rūmī
November 2, 2023
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Daisy Livingston
236-243
Review of al-Shishtāwī, Khayrāt al-sulṭān Qāytbāy
November 2, 2023
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Daisuke Igarashi
244-250
Review of Kumakura, Chusei Ejiputo no Tochiseido to Nairukangai
November 2, 2023
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