Vol. 24 No. 1 (2016): Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā

Vol. 24 No. 1 (2016)

Published November 15, 2016
Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā

This issue is published under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND License. Authors retain the copyright on their articles. The copyright statement that appears in the volume front matter page was printed in error.

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Letter from the Editors

Antoine Borrut
i-ii
Letter from the Editors
November 15, 2016
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MEM Awards

Richard W. Bulliet
iii-vi
Remarks by the Recipient of the 2015 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award
November 15, 2016
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Research Articles

Fred M. Donner
1-14
Arabic Fatḥ as ‘Conquest’ and its Origin in Islamic Tradition
November 15, 2016
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Sean W. Anthony
15-41
Was Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī a Shiʿite Historian? The State of the Question*
November 15, 2016
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Matthew Melvin-Koushki
42-113
Of Islamic Grammatology: Ibn Turka’s Lettrist Metaphysics of Light*
November 15, 2016
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Theodore S. Beers
114-138
Taẕkirah-i Khayr al-bayān: The Earliest Source on the Career and Poetry of Ṣāʾib Tabrīzī (d. ca. 1087/1676)
November 15, 2016
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Notes and Brief Communications

Jonathan Brown
139-144
A Man for All Seasons: Ibn ʿUqda and Crossing Sectarian Boundaries in the 4th/10th Century
November 15, 2016
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Christian Mauder, Christopher Markiewicz
145-148
A New Source on the Social Gatherings (majalis) of the Mamluk Sultan Qānṣawh al-Ghawrī
November 15, 2016
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Conference Reports

Thomas MacMaster
149-151
Sessions on Slavery The International Medieval Congress
November 15, 2016
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Stefan Heidemann
152-158
Regional and Transregional Elites: Connecting the Early Islamic Empire
November 15, 2016
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Lucy Stone McNeece
159-172
A Moveable Feast: “Food as a Cultural Signifier”
November 15, 2016
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Book Reviews

Antoine Borrut
173-180
Denis Genequand and Christian Julien Robin (eds.), Les Jafnides: des rois arabes au service de Byzance
November 15, 2016
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Michael Bonner
181-186
Isabel Toral-Niehof, Al-Ḥīra, Eine arabische Kulturmetropole im spätantiken Kontext
November 15, 2016
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Isabel Toral-Niehof
187-193
Thomas Bauer, Die Kultur der Ambiguität: Eine andere Geschichte des Islams
November 15, 2016
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Rachel Anne Friedman
194-196
Tariq Jafer, Razī: Master of Qurʾanic Interpretation and Theological Reasoning
November 15, 2016
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Anne Troadec
197-202
Amina Elbendary, Crowds and Sultans: Urban Protest in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria
November 15, 2016
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Christian Mauder
203-207
Petrus Martyr Anglerius, Legatio Babylonica. Edition, Übersetzung und Kommentar von Hans Heinrich Todt
November 15, 2016
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In Memoriam

Sarah Eltantawi
208-211
Shahab Ahmed
November 15, 2016
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