Vol. 28 (2020)

Vol. 28 (2020)

Published June 3, 2021
Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā
Full Issue
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Letter from the Editors

Antoine Borrut, Matthew Gordon
i-iii
Letter from the Editors
June 3, 2021
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MEM Awards

Maribel Fierro
iv-ix
Remarks by the Recipient of the 2019 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award Given at the Annual Meeting of Middle East Medievalists (New Orleans, 14 November 2019)
June 3, 2021
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Research Articles

Zayde Antrim
1-44
Qamarayn
The Erotics of Sameness in the 1001 Nights
October 1, 2020
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Luke Treadwell
45-73
Who Compiled and Edited the Mashhad Miscellany?
October 1, 2020
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Jelle Bruning
74-115
A Call to Arms
An Account of Ayyubid or Early Mamluk Alexandria
October 1, 2020
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Abed el-Rahman Tayyara
116-149
The Rebellious Son
Umayyad Hereditary Succession and the Origins of Ḥijāzī Opposition
October 1, 2020
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Kevin van Bladel
150-173
A Brief History of Islamic Civilization from Its Genesis in the Late Nineteenth Century to Its Institutional Entrenchment
October 1, 2020
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Simon Pierre
174-226
Le stylite (esṭūnōrō) et sa ṣawmaʿa face aux milieux cléricaux islamiques et miaphysites (Ier–IIe / VIIe-VIIIe siècles)
October 1, 2020
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Thematic Dossier

Sébastien Garnier, Pamela Klasova, Matthew L. Keegan
228-230
Introduction
A Note from the Holbergians
October 1, 2020
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Antoine Borrut
231-232
Introduction
The Holberg Seminar
October 1, 2020
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Theodore S. Beers
233–253
The Treatment of Coeval Persian Poetry in Arabic Anthologies of the Eleventh/Seventeenth Century
A Preliminary Study
October 1, 2020
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Sébastien Garnier
254–271
Dans le ventre de l’histoire
Sindbad le marin ou la satire du glouton?
October 1, 2020
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Matthew L. Keegan
272–296
Adab without the Crusades
The Inebriated Solidarity of a Young Officer’s Hunting Epistle
October 1, 2020
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Pamela Klasova
297–345
Ḥadīth as Common Discourse
Reflections on the Intersectarian Dissemination of the Creation of the Intellect Tradition
October 1, 2020
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Daisy Livingston
346–375
The Paperwork of a Mamluk Muqṭaʿ
Documentary Life Cycles, Archival Spaces, and the Importance of Documents Lying Around
October 1, 2020
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Christian Mauder
376–408
Being Persian in Late Mamluk Egypt
The Construction and Significance of Persian Ethnic Identity in the Salons of Sultan Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 906–922/1501–1516)
October 1, 2020
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Teaching Notes

Jo Van Steenbergen
409–410
Why Do We Need a New Textbook?
October 1, 2020
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Hannah Barker
411–412
Teaching Medieval Slavery and Captivity
An Online Pedagogical Resource
October 1, 2020
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Book Reviews

Matthew Gordon
413–415
Amikam Elad, The Rebellion of Muḥammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya in 145/762: Ṭālibīs and Early ʿAbbāsīs in Conflict
October 1, 2020
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Adday Hernández
416–420
Mālik b. Anas, Al-Muwaṭṭaʾ: The Recension of Yaḥyā b. Yaḥyā al-Laythī; A Translation of the Royal Moroccan Edition
October 1, 2020
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Mónika Schönléber
421–429
Ibn Aʿtham al-Kūfī, Qiṭʿa min Kitāb al-futūḥ, li-l-ʿallāma al-muʾarrikh Abī Muḥammad Aḥmad b. Aʿtham al-Kūfī, al-mutawaffā baʿda sanat 320 h, qūbilat ʿalā nuskha qadīma min al-qarn al-sādis al-hijrī, akhrajahu wa-waḍaʿa fahārisahu Markaz Iḥyāʾ al-Turāth a
October 1, 2020
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András Hámori
430–435
Al-Muḥassin b. ʿAlī al-Tanūkhī, Stories of Piety and Prayer: Deliverance Follows Adversity
October 1, 2020
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Mohamad Ballan
436–442
Luke B. Yarbrough, Friends of the Emir: Non-Muslim State Officials in Premodern Islamic Thought
October 1, 2020
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Daniel Varisco
443–447
Al-Malik al-Afḍal al-ʿAbbās b. ʿAlī b. Dāwūd al-Rasūlī, Bughyat al-fallāḥīn fī al-ashjār al-muthmira wa-l-rayāḥīn
October 1, 2020
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David Durand-Guédy
448–453
Jean Aubin, Études sur l’Iran médiéval: Géographie historique et société
October 1, 2020
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Sunil Sharma
454–458
Nile Green, ed., The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca & Abbas Amanat and Assef Ashraf, eds., The Persianate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere
October 1, 2020
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Meia Walravens
459–464
Emma J. Flatt, The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates: Living Well in the Persian Cosmopolis
October 1, 2020
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Christian Mauder
465–470
Thomas Bauer, Warum es kein islamisches Mittelalter gab: Das Erbe der Antike und der Orient
October 1, 2020
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