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Al-'Usur Al-Wusta AL-ʿUṢŪR AL-WUSṬĀ 27 (2019) THE JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST MEDIEVALISTS About Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is an international professional non-proft association of scholars interested in the study of the Islamic lands of the Middle East during the medieval period (defned roughly as 500–1500 C.E.). MEM ofcially came into existence on 15 November 1989 at its frst annual meeting, held in Toronto. It is a non-proft organization incorporated in the state of Illinois. MEM has two primary goals: to increase the representation of medieval scholarship at scholarly meetings in North America and elsewhere by co-sponsoring panels; and to foster communication among individuals and organizations with an interest in the study of the medieval Middle East. As part of its efort to promote scholarship and facilitate communication among its members, MEM publishes al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā (The Journal of Middle East Medievalists). EDITORS Antoine Borrut, University of Maryland Matthew S. Gordon, Miami University MANAGING EDITOR Christiane-Marie Abu Sarah, University of Maryland BOOK REVIEW EDITORS BOARD OF DIRECTORS, MIDDLE EAST MEDIEVALISTS Malika Dekkiche, University of Antwerp Luke Yarbrough, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) President Sarah Bowen Savant, Aga Khan University EDITORIAL BOARD, AL-ʿUṢŪR AL-WUSṬĀ (THE JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST MEDIEVALISTS) Vice-President Zayde Antrim, Zayde Antrim, Trinity College Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut Sobhi Bouderbala, University of Tunis Muriel Debié, École Pratique des Hautes Études Secretary Fred M. Donner, University of Chicago Alison M. Vacca, David Durand-Guédy, Institut Français de Recherche en Iran University of Tennessee, Knoxville Nadia Maria El-Cheikh, American University of Beirut Maribel Fierro, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científcas Treasurer Emma Gannagé, Georgetown University Eric Hanne, Florida Atlantic University Denis Genequand, Site et Musée romains d’Avenches Board Members Ahmet Karamustafa, University of Maryland Kristina L. Richardson, Queens College, Étienne de La Vaissière, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales City University of New York Stephennie Mulder, The University of Texas at Austin Craig A. Perry, University of Cincinnati Marina Rustow, Princeton University Isabel Toral-Niehof, Free University of Berlin Editor of H-MEM Alison M. Vacca, University of Tennessee, Knoxville James Weaver, University of Zurich Peter Webb, Leiden University Graduate Student Representative Aurora González Artigao, Consejo Superior ISSN 1068-1051 de Investigaciones Científcas–Spanish Copyright © 2019 Middle East Medievalists. All rights reserved. National Research Council, Madrid For submission guidelines, contact: [email protected]. Website of the Middle East Medievalists: http://middleeastmedievalists.com/ Website of al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā (The Journal of Middle East Medievalists): https://www.middleeastmedievalists.com/al-usur-al-wusta/ Become a member of the Middle East Medievalists: https://www.middleeastmedievalists.com/membership-application/ Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā (Editorial Ofce) Antoine Borrut, Editor Department of History, University of Maryland 2115 Francis Scott Key Hall, College Park, MD 20742-7315 USA TABLE OF CONTENTS Letter from the Editors, Antoine Borrut and Matthew S. Gordon .................................................................... i–ii MEM AWARDS: Remarks by Donald Whitcomb, Recipient of the 2018 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award .............................................................................. iii–ix ARTICLES: In Search of the Early Islamic Economy Michael Bonner ........................................................................................................................................................ 1–39 Reacting to Muḥammad: Three Early Islamic Poets in the Kitāb al-Aghānī Pamela Klasova .....................................................................................................................................................40–111 A Newly Discovered Letter of the Early Arabic Alphabet: A Distinction between Final Jīm and Final Ḥāʾ/Khāʾ and Its Nabataean Origins Marijn van Putten ............................................................................................................................................. 112–164 Nourishing the Noble: Breastfeeding and Hero-Making in Medieval Arabic Popular Literature Rachel Schine ..................................................................................................................................................... 165–200 An Unexpected Romance: Reevaluating the Authorship of the Khosrow-nāma Austin O’Malley ................................................................................................................................................. 201–232 REVIEW ESSAYS: Women, Identity, and Power: A Review Essay of Antony Eastmond, Tamta’s World Zaroui Pogossian ............................................................................................................................................... 233–266 CONFERENCE REPORTS: Mysticism and Ethics in Islam (American University of Beirut, 2–3 May 2019) Louise Gallorini .................................................................................................................................................. 267–272 BOOK REVIEWS: Daniel Alan Brubaker, Corrections in Early Qurʾānic Manuscripts: Twenty Examples Hythem Sidky ..................................................................................................................................................... 273–288 Jennifer A. Cromwell, Recording Village Life: A Coptic Scribe in Early Islamic Egypt Marie Legendre .................................................................................................................................................. 289–296 Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 27 (2019) TABLE OF CONTENTS (CONT.) BOOK REVIEWS (CONT.): Mathieu Tillier, L’invention du cadi: La justice des Musulmans, des Juifs et des Chrétiens aux premiers siècles de l’Islam Steven Judd ......................................................................................................................................................... 297–300 Hans-Peter Pökel, Der unmannliche Mann: Zur Figuration des Eunuchen im Werk von al-Gāḥiz (gest. 869) Ignacio Sánchez ................................................................................................................................................. 301–304 Scott Savran, Arabs and Iranians in the Islamic Conquest Narrative: Memory and Identity Construction in Islamic Historiography, 750–1050 Ryan J. Lynch ...................................................................................................................................................... 305–308 Adam Talib, How Do You Say “Epigram” in Arabic? Literary History at the Limits of Comparison Rachel Schine ..................................................................................................................................................... 309–314 William Chester Jordan, The Apple of His Eye: Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IX Janna Bianchini .................................................................................................................................................. 315–318 Joel Blecher, Said the Prophet of God: Hadith Commentary across a Millennium L. W. Cornelis van Lit, O.P. ................................................................................................................................ 319–325 Thomas A. Carlson, Christianity in Fifteenth-Century Iraq Jonathan Parkes Allen ....................................................................................................................................... 326–333 Khaled El-Rouayheb and Sabine Schmidtke, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy Coleman Connelly .............................................................................................................................................. 334–339 IN MEMORIAM: Remembering Speros Vryonis, Jr. (1928–2019) Gary Leiser .......................................................................................................................................................... 340–344 “May His Memory Be Blessed”: Remembering Kenneth G. Holum (1939–2017) Gideon Avni, Elizabeth Conner, and Alan Walmsley .................................................................................... 345–353 Remembering Michael Bonner (1952–2019) Steven Judd, Alison Vacca, Robert Haug, Noah Gardiner, and Antoine Borrut ....................................... 354–362 Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 27 (2019) Letter from the Editors e are pleased to be publishing express our gratitude to Dr. Christiane- our ffth issue of Al-ʿUṣūr Marie Abu Sarah. Marie began her work al-Wusṭā in its current online with us as a graduate student but, in Wand peer-reviewed format. Please be October of this year, defended her brilliant aware that the journal is now housed at PhD dissertation, “To Drink a Cup of the new website of Middle East Medieval- Fire: Morality Tales and Moral Emotions ists. This is the current URL: https://www. in Egyptian, Algerian, and French Anti- middleeastmedievalists.com/. Colonial Activism, 1945–1960” (University The issue contains yet another set of Maryland, under the supervision of of fine contributions, including five full- Professor Peter Wien). To Marie, many length studies, a substantial review congratulations! We are very grateful essay, ten book reviews, and a report of
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