Vol. 30 (2022): Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā

Vol. 30 (2022)

Published April 1, 2022
Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā
Masthead & Table of Contents
December 1, 2022
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MEM Awards

Doris Behrens-Abouseif
iv–ix
Remarks by the Recipient of the 2021 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award
December 1, 2022
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Research Articles

Matthew Thomas Miller
1-46
The Poetics of the Sufi Carnival: The Rogue Lyrics (Qalandariyyāt) as Heterotopic Countergenre(s)
April 1, 2022
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Lev Weitz
47-78
The Long Arm of the Provincial Law: A Custody Battle in a Qāḍī Petition from the Medieval Fayyūm
April 8, 2022
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Harry Munt
79-147
The Umayyad and Early Abbasid Inscriptions in the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina
June 27, 2022
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Elizabeth Lambourn
148-182
Sweet Water on the Sea Route to China: Watering Stops and Torpedo-Jar Capacities in Long-Distance Indian Ocean Sailing
September 13, 2022
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Andrew McLaren
183-234
Dating Ibn Aʿtham’s History: Of Persian Manuscripts, Obscure Biographies, and Incomplete Isnāds
September 19, 2022
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Aila Santi
235-266
The Mosque‒Dār al-Imāra Complex at ʿAnjar: Preliminary Notes from a Multi-layered Exploration of Ceremonial Spaces in the Marwānid Period
October 4, 2022
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Ehsan Roohi
267-319
A Form-Critical Analysis of the al-Rajīʿ and Biʾr Maʿūna Stories: Tribal, Ideological, and Legal Incentives behind the Transmission of the Prophet’s Biography
October 17, 2022
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Rachel Schine
320–383
Translating Race in the Islamic Studies Classroom
November 27, 2022
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Leone Pecorini Goodall
384-434
‘The ʿAbbas after Whom Those Who Rule in Baghdad Are Named’: Al-ʿAbbās b. al-Walīd in Late Antique Accounts of the Marwānids and the Third Fitna
November 29, 2022
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Thematic Dossier

Petra M. Sijpesteijn, Alon Dar
435-444
Introduction: Acts of Rebellion and Revolt in the Early Islamic Caliphate
December 1, 2022
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Hannah-Lena Hagemann
445–468
Was Muṭarrif b. al-Mughīra al-Thaqafī a Khārijite? Rebellion in the Early Marwānid Period
December 1, 2022
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Petra M. Sijpesteijn
469-499
Closing Ranks: Discipline and Loyalty in the Umayyad Army
December 1, 2022
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Alon Dar
500-515
Governors and Provincial Elites in Umayyad Egypt: A Case Study of One “Rebellion” (709–10 CE)
December 1, 2022
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Said Reza Huseini
516–553
The Rebellion of al-Ḥārith b. Surayj (116–28/734–46): The Local Perspective
December 1, 2022
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Ayşegül Şimşek
554–572
Portrait of a Jurist between Obedience and Rebellion: The Case of Abū Ḥanīfa
December 1, 2022
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Philip Grant
573–602
Entangled Symbols: Silk and the Material Semiosis of the Zanj Rebellion (869–83)
December 1, 2022
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Book Reviews

Theodore S. Beers
603–611
Review of Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ, Kalīlah and Dimnah
December 1, 2022
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Matthew S. Gordon
612–616
Review of Anderson, Fenwick, & Rosser-Owen (eds.), The Aghlabids and Their Neighbors
December 1, 2022
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Abigail Krasner Balbale
617–621
Review of Albarrán, Ejércitos benditos
December 1, 2022
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Bogdan C. Smarandache
622–630
Review of Lindsay & Mourad (eds. and trans.), Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period
December 1, 2022
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Jonathan Lawrence
631–639
Review of Balda-Tillier, Histoires d’amour et de mort
December 1, 2022
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Kader Smail
640–643
Review of O’Meara, The Kaʿba Orientations
December 1, 2022
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Pamela Klasova
644–653
Review of Qutbuddin, Arabic Oration
December 1, 2022
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Conference Reports

Ellen Enderle
654–661
Rethinking the Wearable in the Middle Ages
December 1, 2022
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