Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam Tables of Contents

Vol. 1 (1979)

M.J. Kister Some reports concerning al-T. ¯a-if 1 Etan Kohlberg Man¯ahijal-,¯arif¯ın. A treatise on S. ¯uﬁsm 19 by Ab¯u ,Abd al-Rah. m¯anal-Sulam¯ı Uri Rubin Prophets and progenitors in the early 41 Sh¯ı,a tradition David Ayalon On the eunuchs in Islam 67 F. Klein-Franke The Arabic Version of Galen’s 125 Περὶἐθων Ronald L. Nettler Ibn Khald¯un’sproof for God’s unity: 151 A problematic passage in the Muqad- dimah Aryeh Levin S¯ıbawayhi’s view of the syntactical 185 structure of k¯anawa -axaw¯atuh¯a Joshua Blau Some observations on a Middle Arabic 215 Egyptian text in Coptic Characters Moshe Piamenta Jerusalem sub-standard Arabic. Lin- 263 guistic analysis of an idiolect

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Vol. 2 (1980)

Sh. Shaked Mihr the Judge 1 M.J. Kister On a monotheistic aspect of a J¯ahiliyya 33 practice P. Crone Islam, Judeo-Christianity and Byzan- 59 tine iconoclasm G. Kunazi, Al-Ris¯alatul-M¯assa by Ab¯uHil¯alal- 97 ,Askar¯ı Sh. Pines Sh¯ı,ite terms and conceptions in Judah 165 Halevi’s Kuzari I.R. Netton Brotherhood versus Imamate: Ikhw¯an 253 al-S. af¯a- and the Ism¯a,¯ıl¯ıs L.V. Berman & I. Alon Socrates on law and philosophy 263 J. Hecker Some notes on Kit¯abal-Tawl¯ıd from the 281 Mughn¯ı of the Q¯ad.¯ı ,Abd al-Jabb¯ar D. Ayalon Maml¯ukiyy¯at 321 J. Blau Studies in Arabic morphology and syn- 351 tax S. Soroudi Islamization of the Iranian national 365 hero Rustam as reﬂected in Persian folktales Tables of Contents 3

Vol. 3 (1981–1982)

A. Arazi Al-Tad. allu, f¯ı ma,n¯a l-taqannu, de 1 Djal¯alal-D¯ınal-Suy¯ut.¯ı G. Kanazi ,Ubaydull¯ahb. al-H. urr al-Ju,f¯ı,his life 49 and poetry C. Bailey Bedouin war poems from the Negev 131 Y. Lev F¯at.imid policy towards Damascus 165 (358/968–386/996): military, political and social aspects M. Idel Magic temples and cities in the Middle 185 Ages and the Renaissance A. Ravitzky Hebrew quotations from the lost Arabic 191 recension of Parva Naturalia N. Kinberg A study of la--in clauses in early literary 203 Arabic J. Blau On some Proto-Neo-Arabic and early 223 Neo-Arabic features diﬀering from Classical Arabic Notes M.J. Kister and Y. Friedmann 237 Reviews E. Kohlberg, O. Kapeliuk and 241 T. Langermann 4 Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam

Vol. 4 (1984)

From J¯ahiliyya to Islam Colloquium 1, Jerusalem, June 1980, (I)

Ph. Gignoux L’organisation administrative sasanide: 1 le cas du marzb¯an Sh. Shaked From Iran to Islam: notes on some 31 themes in transition M. Rosen Ayalon Themes of Sasanian origin in Islamic 69 art R.N. Frye Comparative observations on conver- 81 sion to Islam in Iran and Central Asia J.B. Segal Arabs in Syriac literature before the 89 rise of Islam C. Rabin On the probability of South-Arabian in- 125 ﬂuence on the Arabic vocabulary Sh. Pines Notes on Islam and on Arabic Chris- 135 tianity and Judaeo-Christianity P. Crone J¯ahil¯ıand Jewish law: the qas¯ama 153 M. Gil The origin of the Jews of Yathrib 203 Tables of Contents 5

Vol. 5 (1984) From J¯ahiliyya to Islam Colloquium 1, Jerusalem, June 1980, (II)

M. Lecker The H. udaybiyya-treaty and the expedi- 1 tion against Khaybar U. Rubin Bar¯a-a: a study of some Qur-¯anicpas- 13 sages M.J. Kister . . . ill¯abi-h. aqqihi. . . : a study of an early 33 h. ad¯ıth E. Landau-Tasseron The participation of T. ayyi- in the ridda 53 H. Busse ,Omar b. al-Hat.t.¯abin Jerusalem 73 M. Sharon The development˘ of the debate around 121 the legitimacy of authority in early Is- lam E. Kohlberg Some Im¯am¯ıSh¯ı,¯ıviews on the S. ah. ¯aba 143 A. Arazi Matériaux pour l’étude du conflit de 177 préséanceentre la Mekka et Médine Kh. Athamina The sources of al-Bal¯adhur¯ı’s Ans¯abal- 237 ashr¯af G.H.A. Juynboll Muslim’s introduction to his S. ah.¯ıh. 263 translated and annotated with an ex- cursus on the chronology of fitna and bid,a M. Zwettler The poet and the Prophet: towards un- 313 derstanding the evolution of a narrative S.A. Bonebakker Early Arabic literature and the term 389 adab 6 Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam

Vol. 6 (1985) Eliyahu Ashtor Memorial volume

J. Blau Eliyahu Ashtor, 1914–1984: In Memo- i riam B.Z. Kedar Eliyahu Ashtor: list of publications iii E. Landau-Tasseron Asad from J¯ahiliyya to Islam 1 M. Lecker Muh. ammad at Medina — a geographi- 29 cal approach M. Muranyi Das Kit¯abal-siyar von Ab¯uIs.h. ¯aqal- 63 Faz¯ar¯ı E. Kohlberg Non-Im¯am¯ıMuslims in Im¯am¯ı ﬁqh 99 Sh. Pines Studies in Christianity and in Judaeo- 107 Christianity based on Arabic sources I. Alon The Arabic version of Theophrastus’ 163 Metaphysica S. Harvey A 14th century Kabbalist’s excerpt 219 from the lost Arabic original of Averroes’ Middle commentary on the Physics S. Stroumsa The Bar¯ahima in early Kal¯am 229 H. Ben-Shammai Studies in Karaite Atomism 243 A. Levin The syntactic technical term al- 299 mabniyy ,alayhi N. Kinberg Adverbial clauses as topics in Arabic 353 J. Blau and S. Hopkins A vocalized Judaeo-Arabic letter from 417 the Cairo Geniza Notes J.A. Bellamy and G.J. van Gelder 477 Review articles U. Rubin and E. Landau-Tasseron 481 Tables of Contents 7

Vol. 7 (1986) From J¯ahiliyya to Islam Colloquium 2, Jerusalem, July 1982 (I)

Y. Grunfest Language and style of the South- 1 Arabian inscriptions: votive inscriptions from Mârib J. Blau The J¯ahiliyya and the emergence of the 35 Neo-Arabic lingual type S. Hopkins Early materials in Middle (Neo-) Ara- 45 bic G. Stroumsa “Seal of the Prophets”: the nature of a 61 Manichaean metaphor Sh. Shaked From Iran to Islam: on some symbols 75 of royalty Ph. Gignoux Pour une esquisse des fonctions re- 93 ligieuses sous les Sasanides A. Shiloah Music in the Pre-Islamic period as re- 109 flected in Arabic writings of the first Is- lamic centuries G.D. Newby The S¯ıra as a source for Arabian Jewish 121 history: problems and perspectives E. Kohlberg Bar¯a-a in Sh¯ı,¯ıdoctrine 139 Y. Friedmann Finality of prophethood in Sunn¯ıIslam 177 M. Cook Early Islamic dietary law 217 8 Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam

Vol. 8 (1986) From J¯ahiliyya to Islam Colloquium 2, Jerusalem, July 1982 (II)

G.R. Hawting H. udaybiyya and the conquest of Mecca: 1 a reconsideration of the tradition about the Muslim takeover of the sanctuary M. Muranyi Die ersten Muslime von Mekka — 25 soziale Basis einer neuen Religion? E. Landau-Tasseron The sinful wars: religious, social and 37 historical aspects of h. ur¯ubal-ﬁj¯ar M.J. Kister The massacre of the Ban¯uQurayz.a: a 61 re-examination of a tradition U. Rubin The Ka,ba: aspects of its ritual func- 97 tions and position in pre-Islamic and early Islamic times M. Lecker On the markets of Medina (Yathrib) in 133 pre-Islamic and early Islamic times H. Busse ,Omar’s image as the conqueror of 149 Jerusalem M. Sharon Ahl al-bayt — people of the House 169 Kh. ,Athamina Arab settlement during the Umayyad 185 Caliphate Tables of Contents 9

Vol. 9 (1987) J¯ahiliyya and Islamic studies In honour of M.J. Kister Septuagenarian (I)

Bibliography of M.J. Kister i S.D. Goitein The humanistic aspects of Oriental 1 studies R.N. Frye Feudalism in Sasanian and early Islamic 13 Iran Ph. Gignoux Une catégorie de mages à la fin de 19 l’époque sasanide: les mogv¯eh Sh. Shaked A facetious recipe and two wisdoms: 24 Iranian themes in Muslim garb J.C. Greenfield The verb sallat.a in the Qur-¯anin the 36 light of Aramaic usage E. Ullendorf Hebrew elements in the Ethiopic Old 42 Testament S.P. Brock North Mesopotamia in the late sev- 51 enth century: Book XV of John Bar Penk¯ay¯e’s R¯ıˇsMell¯e I. Lichtenstadter and W. Heinrichs A South-Arabian vessel 76 J. Blau and S. Hopkins Judaeo-Arabic papyri — collected, 87 edited, translated and analysed M. Cook ,Anan and Islam: the origins of Karaite 161 scripturalism S. Noja La question se pose encore une fois: “La 183 puretérituelle de l’Islam dérive-t-elle ou non de celle du Juda¨ısme?” Sh. Pines Gospel quotations and cognate topics 195 in ,Abd al-Jabb¯ar’s Tathb¯ıt in relation to early Christian and Judaeo-Christian readings and traditions H. Busse The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the 279 Church of Agony, and the Temple: the reflection of a Christian belief in Islamic tradition A. Noth Abgrenzungsproblemezwischen Mus- 290 limen und nicht-Muslimen: Die “Bedingungen ,Umars (aˇs-ˇsur¯ut. al- ,umariyya)” unter einem anderen Adpekt gelesen S. Sviri Between fear and hope: on the coinci- 316 dence of opposites in Islamic mysticism A. Schimmel The primordial dot: some thoughts 350 about S. ¯uf¯ıletter mysticism M. Rosen-Ayalon Vivas vita 357 In Hebrew 10 Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam

Z. Ben-Hayyim Baqqasha of Saadia Gaon — A Samar- 1* itan prayer Tables of Contents 11

Vol. 10 (1987) J¯ahiliyya and Islamic studies In honour of M.J. Kister Septuagenarian (II)

R. Sellheim Muhammeds erstes Offenbarungserleb- 1 nis M. Lecker A note on early marriage links between 17 Qurash¯ısand Jewish women U. Rubin Morning and evening prayers in early 40 Islam M. Gil The Medinan opposition to the Prophet 65 G.H.A. Juynboll Some new ideas on the development of 97 sunna as a technical term in early Islam M. Muranyi Ein altes Dokument über 119 Had¯ıtfabrikationen in der frühen . ¯ medinensischen Jurisprudenz E. Kohlberg Al-us.¯ulal-arba,umi-a 128 P. Crone Did al-Ghaz¯al¯ı write a Mirror for 167 Princes? On the authorship of Nas.¯ıh. at al-mul¯uk R.G. Khoury Ibn Khald¯unet quelques savants des 192 deux premiers sièclesislamiques D. Ayalon Maml¯ukmilitary aristocracy — a non- 205 hereditary nobility A. Arazi Ilq¯amal-H. ajar li-man zakk¯as¯abbAb¯ı 211 Bakr wa-,Umar d’al-Suy¯ut.¯ı ou Le témoignage de l’insulteur des Com- pagnons J.L. Kraemer The jih¯ad of the fal¯asifa 288 J. Sadan A “closed-circuit” saying on practical 325 justice A. Levin The views of the Arab grammarians on 342 the classification and syntactic function of prepositions H. Spitaler Al-qalam ah. ad al-lis¯anain und andere 368 Dualformeln gleichen Typs: ein Beitrag zur Phraseologie des Arabischen 12 Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam

Vol. 11 (1988)

A. Elad Some aspects of the Islamic traditions 1 regarding the site of the grave of Moses B. Abrahamov The T. abarist¯anis’question 16 P.E. Eskenasy Al-F¯ar¯ab¯ı’sclassification of the parts of 55 speech S. Rosenberg Themistius on modal logic — excerpts 83 C. Manekin from a commentary on the prior analyt- ics attributed to Themistius G. Freudenthal La philosophie de la géométried’ Al- 104 F¯ar¯ab¯ı(870–950) D. Semah The poetics of H. umayn¯ı poetry in 220 Yemen A. Elad “. . . And he who Seeks his Leg. . . ” An 240 interpretation of a verse R. Talmon Review of G.H.A. Juynboll, Mus- 248 lim Tradition: Studies in Chronology, Provenance and Authorship of Early H. ad¯ıth Tables of Contents 13

Vol. 12 (1989) Haim Blanc Memorial volume

In memory of Haim Blanc iii Bibliography of H. Blanc’s writings viii J. Blau Two studies of S¯ıbawayhi’s Kit¯ab 1 G. Troupeau Voyelles et semi-voyelles dans le Kit¯ab 31 de S¯ıbawayhi A. Levin What is meant by -akal¯un¯ıl-bar¯a˙g¯ıtu? 40 ¯ K. Versteegh The definition of philosophy in a tenth- 66 century grammarian Sh. Morag Biblical Hebrew and modern Arabic di- 94 alects: some parallel lines of development A. Bloch Plurals of multiplication, plurals of di- 118 vision W. Fischer Zur Herkunft des grammatischen Ter- 135 minus h. arf W. Diem Drei amtliche Schreiben aus frühis- 146 lamischer Zeit (Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer, Wien) M. Piamenta A lexicographic study of kinship terms 166 in Yemeni dialects Y. Elihai Particularités de l’arabe parlé pales- 186 tinien M. Woidich Langform versus Kurzform: Die 199 Kardinalzahlwörter von 3 bis 10 im Kairenischen M.H. Goshen-Gottstein Exercises in Semitic linguistics I: Clas- 233 sical Syriac S. Hopkins A tale in the Jewish neo-Aramaic di- 243 alect of NaGada (Persian Azerbaijan) O. Jastrow Notes on Jewish Mas.law¯ı 282 O. Kapeliuk Some common traits in the evolution of 294 neo-Syriac and of neo-Ethiopian M.J. Kister “Do not assimilate yourselves. . . ”: l¯a 321 tashabbah¯u; with an Appendix by M.J. Kister D. Ayalon The Nubian dam 372 14 Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam

Vol. 13 (1990) From J¯ahiliyya to Islam Colloquium 3 (I)

Ph. Gignoux Le Sp¯ahbed des Sassanides àl’Islam 1 Sh. Shaked “For the sake of the soul”: A Zoroas- 15 trian idea in transmission into Islam R.N. Frye The “Persian Gulf” and changes in 33 nomenclature J.A. Bellamy Some observations on the Arabic rith¯a- 44 in the J¯ahiliyya and Islam G.R. Hawting The “sacred offices” of Mecca from 62 J¯ahiliyya to Islam U. Rubin H. an¯ıfiyya and Ka,ba: An inquiry into 85 the Arabian pre-Islamic background of d¯ınIbr¯ah¯ım M.J. Kister On strangers and allies in Mecca 113 A. Rippin Epigraphical South Arabian and 155 Qur-¯anicexegesis Sh. Pines J¯ahiliyya and ,ilm 175 S. Sviri Wa-rahb¯an¯ıyatanibtid¯a,¯uh¯a: An anal- 195 ysis of traditions concerning the origin and evaluation of Christian monasticism A. Spitaler Zwei Problcme der arabischen Philolo- 209 gie J. Blau Classical Arabic versus post-classical 218 Arabic as viewed from the vantage point of Judaeo-Arabic S.H. Griffith Islam and the Summa Theologiae Ara- 225 bica S. Stroumsa The beginnings of the Mu,tazila recon- 265 sidered Sh. Moreh The background of the medieval Arabic 294 theatre: Hellenistic-Roman and Persian influences Tables of Contents 15

Vol. 14 (1991) From J¯ahiliyya to Islam Colloquium 3 (II)

H. Busse Jerusalem in the story of Muh. ammad’s 1 night journey and ascension A. Elad The history and topography of 41 Jerusalem during the early Islamic period. The historical value of Fad. ¯a-il al-Quds literature: A reconsideration O. Livne-Kafri A note on some traditions of Fad. ¯a-il al- 71 Quds S. Bashear The mission of Dih. ya al-Kalb¯ıand the 84 situation in Syria M. Sharon The Umayyads as ahl al-bayt 115 I. Lichtenstadter “And become ye accursed apes” 153 I. Hasson Les maw¯al¯ı dans l’arm´ee musulmane 176 sous les premiers umayyades M. Muranyi Ibn Ish. ¯aq’s Kit¯ab al-ma˙g¯az¯ı in der 214 riw¯aya von Y¯unus b. Bukair: Be- merkungen zur fr¨uhen Uberlieferungs-¨ geschichte M. Lecker Shurt.at al-Kham¯ıs and other matters: 276 Notes on the translation of T. abar¯ı’s Ta-r¯ıkh In Arabic Kh. Athamina Al-ab,¯adal-ijtim¯a,iyya wa-al-siy¯asiyya 1* li-d¯ıw¯anal-,at.¯a- ( é J «A Ò J kB@XA ª KB@ ) . . ZA¢ªË@ à@ñ KYË é JA JË@ð 16 Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam

Vol. 15 (1992) Studies in Semitic linguistics in honour of J. Blau (I)

E. Ullendorff Some observations on the dativus ethi- 1 cus in Semitics and elsewhere J.C. Greenfield Some Arabic loanwords in the Aramaic 10 and Nabatean texts from Nah. al H. ever M.H. Goshen-Gottstein Exercises in Semitic linguistics II: Clas- 22 sical Arabic Sh. Shaked A Palestinian Jewish Aramaic 28 hemerologion T. Muraoka Biblical Hebrew philological notes (2) 43 F. Rundgren On Old Syriac n¯ıˇsa and ness¯a, n¯ıs¯a 55 “signum” (Aramaica VI) O. Kapeliuk Miscellanea Neo-Syriaca 60 A. Levin The authenticity of S¯ıbawayhi’s de- 74 scription of the -im¯ala Y. Peled Cataphora and taqd¯ır in medieval Ara- 94 bic grammatical theory K. Versteegh Grammar and rhetoric: Gurˇg¯an¯ıonˇ the 113 verbs of admiration W. Fischer Orthographie in ihrem Verhältnis zu 134 Phonologie und Morphologie im Klas- sischen Arabisch Y. Gruntfest The diachronic approach to language in 149 medieval Arabic philology H. Grotzfeld Schriftsprache, Mittelarabisch und Di- 171 alekt in 1001 Nacht M. Woidich Vorangestellte Demonstrativa im 195 Kairenischen G. Khan Notes on the grammar of a late Egyp- 220 tian Judaeo-Arabic text O. Jastrow Der Arabische Dialekt der Juden von 240 Kirkuk A. Bloch Different ways, identical results: On 255 parallel retention and parallel innova- tion in modern Arabic dialects Tables of Contents 17

Vol. 16 (1993) Studies in Semitic linguistics in honour of J. Blau (II)

A. Arazi Les enfants adultérins [Da,¯ıs] dans 1 la société arabe ancienne: l’aspect littéraire R. Sellheim Das angebliche Kit¯abal-Amt¯al des Ab¯u 35 ¯ Zaid al-Ans.¯ar¯ı(Gest. 215/830) B. Abrahamov ,Abd al-Jabb¯ar’stheory of divine assis- 41 tance (lut.f ) M.J. Kister The sons of Khad¯ıja 59 U. Rubin The shrouded messenger: On the in- 96 terpretation of al-muzzammzil and al- muddaththir D. Ayalon Some remarks on the economic decline 108 of the Maml¯uksultanate M.R. Cohen The burdensome life of a Jewish physi- 125 cian and communal leader: A Geniza fragment from the Alliance Israelite Universelle collection P.B. Fenton A mystical treatise on prayer and the 137 spiritual quest from the pietist circle S. Somekh Colloquialized fus.h. ¯a in modem Arabic 176 prose fiction 18 Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam

Vol. 17 (1994) From J¯ahiliyya to Islam Colloquium 4 (I)

Ph.G. Kreyenbroek On the concept of spiritual authority in 1 Zoroastrianism Ph. Gignoux Dietary laws in pre-Islamic and post- 16 Sasanian Iran: A comparative survey Sh. Shaked Some Islamic reports concerning 43 Zoroastrianism V. Fiorani Piacentini Mad¯ına/shahr, qarya/deh, n¯ah. iya/ 85 rust¯aq — The city as political- administrative institution: the conti- nuity of a Sasanian model Y.D. Nevo Towards a prehistory of Islam 108 H. Busse The tower of David / mih. r¯abD¯awud: 142 Remarks on the history of a sanctuary in Jerusalem in Christian and Islamic times G.R. Hawting The taww¯ab¯un, atonement and ,¯ash¯ur¯a- 166 Sh. Pines A study of the impact of Indian, mainly 182 Buddhist, thought on some aspects of Kal¯amdoctrines A. Levin S¯ıbawayhi’s attitude to the spoken lan- 204 guage Reviews Fred M. Donner, Uri Rubin, Joshua 244 Blau, Moshe Gil Tables of Contents 19

Vol. 18 (1994) From J¯ahiliyya to Islam Colloquium 4 (II)

P. Crone Two legal problems bearing on the early 1 history of the Qur-¯an A. Rippin Tafs¯ır Ibn ,Abb¯asand criteria for dat- 38 ing early tafs¯ır texts M.J. Kister Social and religious concepts of author- 84 ity in Islam ,Abd Allah A. ,Awda Ris¯alatal-adab f¯ıRajab by ,Al¯ıal-Q¯ari, 128 R. Drory Three attempts to legitimize ﬁction in 146 classical Arabic literature M. Rosen-Ayalon In search of the early roots of Islamic 165 glazed ware R. Milstein The battle between good and evil in Is- 198 lamic painting Reviews J. Blau and H. Busse 217 20 Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam

Vol. 19 (1995) North African, Arabic, and Islamic studies in honour of Pessah Shinar

David Ayalon Pessah Shinar 1 F. Rosenthal The “time” of Muslim historians and 5 Muslim mystics: Laysa bi-yas¯ırtays¯ır al-,as¯ır: A saying of Plato in H. unayn, ed. Badawi, 74 S. Bashear Qun¯ut in Tafs¯ır and h. ad¯ıth literatures 36 M. Lecker On Arabs of the Ban¯uKil¯abexecuted 66 together with the Jewish Ban¯uQurayz.a M. Rosen-Ayalon Some comments on a Maghrib¯ıQur-¯an 73 H. Lazarus-Yafeh Tah. r¯ıf and thirteen Torah scrolls 81 A. Elad Aspects of the transition from the 89 Umayyad to the ,Abb¯asidcaliphate M. Hoexter H. uq¯uqAll¯ah and h. uq¯uqal-,Ib¯ad as re- 133 ﬂected in the waqf institution Y. Frenkel Mawlid al-Nab¯ı at the court of Sult.¯an 157 Ah. mad al-Mans.¯ural-Sa,d¯ı N. Levtzion and Religious reform in eighteenth-century 173 G. Weigert Morocco A. Layish D¯ar ,Adl — symbiosis of custom and 198 shar¯ı,a in a tribal society in process of sedentarization A. Levin The fundamental principles of the Arab 214 grammarians’ theory of ,amal J. Blau On the inaccurate use of participles in 233 medieval Judaeo-Arabic M. Piamenta Notes on H. ars¯us¯ısyntax and semantics 240 G. Bos Ibn al-Jazz¯aron sexuality and sexual 250 dysfunction, and the mystery of ,Ubaid ibn ,Al¯ıibn Jur¯ajaibn H. illauf solved

Reviews

R. Amitai-Preiss Martina Müller-Wiener, Eine Stadt- 267 geschichte Alexandrias von 564/1169 bis in die Mitte des 9./15. Jahrhun- derts: Verwaltung und innerstiidtische Organisationsformen S. Sviri B.R. van Schlegell, trans., Principles of 272 Sufism by al-Qushayri J. Dammen McAuliffe Samir Khalil Samir and Jørgen 281 S. Nielsen, eds., Christian Arabic Apologetics During the Abbasid Period (750–1258) W. Diem Yehuda D. Nevo, Zemira Cohen, Dalia 284 Heftman, Ancient Arabic Inscriptions from the Negev Tables of Contents 21

J. Blau Werner Diem and Hans-Peter Raden- 287 berg, A Dictionary of the Arabic Mate- rial of S.D. Goitein’s A Mediterranean Society 22 Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam

Vol. 20 (1996)

H. Busse The destruction of the temple and its 1 reconstruction in the light of Muslim exegesis of S¯ura17:2–8 M.J. Kister Sanctity joint and divided: On holy 18 places in the Islamic tradition D. Cook Muslim apocalyptic and jih¯ad 66 O. Livne-Kafri Early Muslim ascetics and the world of 105 Christian monasticism M. Fierro On al-F¯at.im¯ı and al-F¯at.imiyy¯un 130 Y. Erder The doctrine of Ab¯u ,¯Is¯aal-Is.fah¯an¯ıand 162 its sources P.S. van Koningsveld The Islamic image of Paul and the ori- 200 gin of the gospel of Barnabas M. Mar´oth The science of dreams in Islamic culture 229 D. Becker A unique semantic classiﬁcation of the 237 Hebrew verb taken by the Qaraite Ab¯u al-Faraj Har¯unfrom the Arab grammarian Ibn al-Sarr¯aj

Reviews

F. Rosenthal Susanne Krone, Die arabische Gottheit 260 al-L¯at R.N. Frye M. Zakeri, S¯as¯anidSoldiers in Early 263 Muslim Society: The Origins of ,Ayy¯ar¯anand Futuwwa R. Hoyland WaIter E. Kaegi, Byzantium and the 268 Early Islamic Conquests I. Hasson Ah. mad b. Yah. y¯ab. J¯abiral-Bal¯adhur¯ı, 271 Ans¯abal-Ashr¯af, vol. Vlb, ed. Khal¯ıl ,Ath¯amina E. Kohlberg Farhad Daftary, ed., Mediaeval Isma,ili 279 History and Thought S. Stroumsa Paul Kraus, Alchemie, Ketzerei, 282 Apokryphen im friihen Islam: Gesam- melte Aufsatze, ed. Remi Brague R. Talmon C.H.M. Versteegh, Arabic Grammar 293 and Qur-¯anicExegesis in Early Islam Tables of Contents 23

Vol. 21 (1997)

A. Arazi La po´esiedes S. a,¯al¯ık entre la J¯ahiliyya 1 et l’Islam G. Hawting The literary context of the traditional 21 accounts of pre-Islamic Arab idolatry E. Landau-Tasseron Unearthing a pre-Islamic Arabian 42 Prophet V. Christides Some hagiographical works (Greek, 62 Latin, Arabic and Ethiopic) as a source for the study of navigation and sea trade in the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, and the Indian Ocean in pre-Islamic times R. Hoyland The content and context of early Arabic 77 inscriptions Sh. Shaked Popular religion in Sasanian Babylonia 103 R. Simon M¯an¯ıand Muh. ammad 118 A. Levin The theory of al-taqd¯ır and its termi- 142 nology E.´ Jeremias Z¯a-id and as.l in early Persian prosody 167 S. Hopkins Two new publications of Arabic papyri 187

Reviews

R. Milstein Francis Robinson, ed. The Cambridge 223 Illustrated History of the Islamic World 24 Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam

Vol. 22 (1998)

H. Busse B¯abH. it..ta: Qur-¯an2:58 and the entry 1 into Jerusalem H. Motzki The Prophet and the cat. On dating 18 M¯alik’s Muwatta- and legal traditions C. Gilliot Les “informateurs” juifs et chrétiensde 84 Muh. ammad. Reprise d’un probleme traitépar Aloys Sprenger et Theodor Nöldeke M.J. Kister L¯ataqra-¯ul-qur-¯ana ,al¯al-mus.h. afiyy¯ın 127 wa-l¯atah. mil¯ul- ,ilma ,ani l-s.ah. afiyy¯ın. Some notes on the transmission of h. ad¯ıth Y. Friedmann Classification of unbelievers in Sunn¯ı 163 Muslim law and tradition M. Fierro Al-As.far again 196 I. Hasson La conversion de Mu,¯awiya ibn Ab¯ı 214 Sufy¯an Tables of Contents 25

Vol. 23 (1999)

D. Ayalon The decisiveness of the study of termi- 1 nology: the case of the Maml¯uksultanate A. Arazi Le mensonge admirable: étude sur le 8 genre descriptif dans la poésie arabe médiévale M.J. Kister “Exert yourselves, O Ban¯u Arfida!”: 53 some notes on entertainment in the Is- lamic tradition L. Kinberg Dreams as a means to evaluate h. ad¯ıth 79 M. Cohen What was the Pact of ,Umar? A 100 literary-historical study R. Shani The iconography of the Dome of the 158 Rock A. Levin The first book of Arabic dialectology: 210 S¯ıbawayhi’s al-Kit¯ab J. Blau The status and the linguistic structure 223 of middle Arabic G. Rosenbaum The Big Night — A popular play in col- 228 loquial Egyptian Arabic W. Diem M. Sharon, Corpus Inscriptionum Ara- 294 bicarum Palaestinae (CIAP)

Reviews

J. Blau Werner Diem, fa-waylun li-l-q¯asiyati 333 qul¯ubuhum,Studien zum arabischen ad- jektivischen satz N. Tsafrir Christopher Melchert, The Formation 341 of the Sunn¯ıSchools of Law, 9th-10th Centuries C. E. B. Krawietz Wael Hallaq, A History of Islamic Legal 348 Theories B. Abrahamov Joel L. Kraemer, Perspectives on Mai- 352 monides R. Milstein G¨ulr¨uNecipo˘glu, The Topkapı Scroll 360 26 Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam

Vol. 24 (2000) David Ayalon Memorial volume I

P. Shinar Foreword 1 F. Rosenthal On the Semitic root s/ˇs-p-r and Arabic 4 safar, travel A. Levin The meaning of h. arf ˇg¯a-a li-ma,nan in 22 S¯ıbawayhi’s al-Kit¯ab J. Blau Are Judaeo-Arabic and Christian Ara- 49 bic misnomers indeed? Sh. Shaked Manichaean incantation bowls in Syriac 58 A. Arazi Le héros désabusé: vers une nou- 93 velle évaluation de la geste arabe préislamique H. Busse Antioch and its prophet H. ab¯ıb al- 155 Najj¯ar E. Landau-Tasseron From tribal society to centralized 180 polity: an interpretation of events and anecdotes in the formative period of Is- lam M.J. Kister “The crowns of this community. . . ” 217 Some notes on the turban in the Islamic tradition A. Elad The ethnic composition of the ,Abb¯asid 246 revolution: a reevaluation of some re- cent research W. Madelung Ab¯u’l-,Amayt.ar the Sufy¯an¯ı 327 E. Kohlberg Early attestations of the term ithn¯a 343 ,ashariyya M. Bar-Asher The Qur-¯aniccommentary ascribed to 358 Imam H. asan al-,Askar¯ı P. Shinar Some remarks regarding the colours of 380 male Jewish dress in North Africa and their Arab-Islamic context A. Ghabin H. isba and art in Islam 396 M. Cohen Four Judaeo-Arabic petitions of the 446 poor from the Cairo Geniza Y. Lev Charity and social practice in Egypt 472 and Syria from the ninth to the twelfth century M. Sharon Two inscriptions from the time of al- 508 Mu,az.z.am ,Is¯a

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J. Blau Anton Spitaler, Philologica. Beitr¨age 519 zur Arabistik und Seitistik M. Sch¨oller Uri Rubin (ed.), The Life of 523 Muh. ammad Tables of Contents 27

W.A. Graham Navid Kermani, Gott ist sch¨on. Das 529 ¨asthetischeErleben des Koran A. Hamori Thomas Bauer, Liebe und Liebesdich- 535 tung in der arabischen Welt des 9. und 10. Jahrhunderts M.M. Bar-Asher Farhad Daftary, A Short History of the 543 Ism¯a,¯ıl¯ıs:Traditions of a Muslim Com- munity M.A. Amir-Moezzi Meir M. Bar-Asher, Scripture and Exe- 551 gesis in Early Im¯am¯ıShiism 28 Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam

Vol. 25 (2001) David Ayalon Memorial volume II

B. Lewis Propaganda in the pre-modern Middle 1 East R. Amitai The conversion of TegüderIlkhan to Is- 15 lam M. Biran “Like a mighty wall:” the armies of the 44 Qara Khitai J. Drory Early Muslim reflections on the Cru- 92 sades D. Jacoby The supply of war materials to Egypt 102 in the Crusader period N. Levtzion The Almoravids in the Sahara and 133 Bil¯adal-Isl¯am: a study in Arab histo- riography Y. Frenkel Baybars and the sacred geography of 153 Bil¯ad al-Sh¯am: a chapter in the Is- lamization of Syria’s landscape D.P. Little Two petitions and consequential 171 records from the H. aram collection M. Winter Inter-madhhab competition in Maml¯uk 195 Damascus: al-T. ars¯us¯ı’scounsel for the Turkish Sultans J. Sourdel-Thomine Certificats de pelerinage par and D. Sourdel procuration a l’epoque mamlouke 212 P.M. Holt The last Maml¯ukSultan: al-Malik al- 234 Ashraf T¯um¯anBay G. Veinstein Sur les nâ-ib ottomans 247 O. Grabar A preliminary note on two 18th century 268 representations of Mekka and Medina R. Milstein Kit¯ab Shawq-n¯ama — an illustrated 275 tour of holy Arabia Sh. Moreh Al-Jabart¯ı’s method of composing his 346 chronicle ,Aj¯a-ib al-¯ath¯arf¯ı al-tar¯ajim wa-’l-akhb¯ar S. Reichmuth Notes on al-Murtad. ¯a al-Zab¯ıd¯ı’s 374 Mu,jam as a source for al-Jabart¯ı’s history

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D.P. Little David Ayalon, Eunuchs, Caliphs and 384 Sultans: A Study of Power Relation- ships M. Shatzmiller Gavin R.G. Hambly (ed.), Women in 391 the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Patronage and Piety Tables of Contents 29

K.S. Vikør Aharon Layish, Legal Documents on 396 Libyan Tribal Society in Process of Sedentarization 30 Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam

Vol. 26 (2002) Studies in honour of Shaul Shaked I

W. Sundermann Forward 1 Bibliography—Shaul Shaked 3 J. Kellens Reflexions sur la datation de Zoroastre 14 P.O. Skjaervø Praise and blame in the Avesta: the poet-sacrificer and his duties 29 H. Humbach Yama/Yima/Jamˇs¯ed,king of Paradise 68 of the Iranians R. Frye Ethnic identity in ancient Iran 78 G. Gnoli The “Aryan” language 84 A. Hultg˚ard Creation and emanation: Zoroastrian 91 reflections on the cosmogonic myth M. Macuch The Talmudic expression ‘Servant of 109 the Fire’ in light of Pahlavi legal sources G. Lazard Encore la versification Pehlevie 130 A.V. Rossi Middle Iranian “gund” between Ara- 140 maic and Indo-Iranian W. Sundermann “El¯ ” as an epithet of the Manichaean 172 “Third Messenger” P. Gignoux Une amulette du Museum fürIslamis- 176 che Kunst de Berlin G. Veltri The figure of the magician in Rabbini- 187 cal literature: from empirical science to theology J.R. Russel Room at the inn: Armenian 205 P’ut’kavank and Sroaˇsa G.G. Stroumsa Thomas Hyde and the birth of Zoroas- 216 trian studies J. Naveh Some new Jewish Palestinian Aramaic 231 amulets

Reviews J.N. Ford, Meir M. Bar Asher Tables of Contents 31

Vol. 27 (2002) Studies in honour of Shaul Shaked II

M.J. Kister The struggle against Musaylima and 1 the conquest of Yam¯ama A. Arazi Les poèmessur la nativitédu Prophète 57 Muh. ammad àGrenade au XIV siècle D. Shulman Tamil praises and the Prophet: Kacim- 86 pulavar’s “Tiruppukal” M. Lecker The levying of taxes for the Sasanians 109 in pre-Islamic Medina (Yathrib) R. Shani Noah’s Ark and the ship of faith 127 S. Sviri Words of power and the power of words 204 M. Omidsalar Orality, mouvance and editorial theory 245 in Sh¯ahn¯amastudies M. Zakeri Some early Persian apophthegms 283 (tawqi,at) H. Daiber Der Aristoteleskommentar Alexander 306 von Aphrodisias (2/3 Jh. n. Chr) und der samaritanische Gelehrte Levi über die Ewigkeit der Welt J. Blau Hebrew versus other languages of the 348 traditional medieval Jewish society A. Levin An interpretation of a difficult passage 356 from the Kit¯ab G. Khan The notion of transitive and intransi- 363 tive actions in the early Karaite grammatical tradition S. Hopkins On the Vorlage of an early Judaeo- 369 Arabic translation of Proverbs S. Stroumsa From the earliest Judaeo-Arabic com- 375 mentary on Genesis T. Gindin Three fragments of an early Judaeo- 396 Persian “Tafs¯ır” on Ezekiel A. Netzer Early Judaeo-Persian fragment from 419 Zafreh E. Yarshater The Jewish dialect of K¯ash¯an 439 S. Soroudi “Sofreh” of Elijah the prophet: a pre- 463 Islamic Iranian ritual? D. Shapira Five Judaeo-Turkic notes 475 M.A. Amir Mo,ezzi Shahrb¯an¯u, Dame du pays d’Iran et 497 mere des imams entre l’Iran pre- Islamique et le Shiisme imamite E. Jeremiás R¯abit.a in the classical Persian literay 550 tradition: the impact of Arabic logic on Persian Reviews S. Günther, Y. Lev, L. Chipman, M. Schwartz, J. Rubanovich 32 Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam

Vol. 28 (2003)

S. Adhami On the Zurvanism of ,ulam¯a-yeIsl¯am I: 1 an encounter with Plato S. Shoemaker Christmas in the Qur-¯an:the Qur-¯anic 11 account of Jesus’ nativity and Pales- tinian local tradition U. Rubin The life of Muh. ammad and the Qur-¯an: 40 the case of Muh. ammad’s hijra A. Elad The beginnings of historical writing by 65 the Arabs: the earliest Syrian writers on the Arab conquests W. Madelung Rab¯ı,a in the J¯ahiliyya and in early 153 Islam H. Motzki The author and his work in the Islamic 171 literature of the first centuries: the case of ,Abd al-Razz¯aq’s Mus.annaf M. Levy-Rubin Praise or defamation? On the polemical 202 usage of the term h. an¯ıf among Chris- tians and Muslims in the Middle Ages R. Tottoli The story of Jesus and the skull in 225 Arabic literature: the emergence and growth of a religious tradition E. Francesca The formation and early development 260 of the Ib¯ad.¯ı madhhab A. Levin S¯ıbawayhi’s attitude to the language of 278 poetry O. Kapeliuk A note on linguistic informants in 289 S¯ıbawayhi’s al-Kit¯ab J. Blau The emergence of the neo-Arabic 297 lingual type M. Sharon W. Diem’s review of Corpus 305 Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae I : a rejoinder W. Diem Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum 328 Palaestinae (CIAP) II Reviews S. Hopkins Christoph Luxenberg, Die Syro- 377 Aramäische Lesart des Koran. Ein Beitrag zur Entschlüsselung der Ko- ransprache U. Rubin Daniel A. Madigan, The Qur-¯an’s Self- 381 Image: Writing and Authority in Islam’s Scripture H. Ben-Shammai Miklos Muranyi, ,Abd All¯ahb. Wahb: 387 al-G¯amiˇ , — Tafs¯ıral-Qur-¯an(Die Ko- ranexegese), herausgegeben und kom- mentiert von Miklos Muranyi Tables of Contents 33

U. Rubin Roberto Tottoli, Biblical Prophets in 397 the Qur-¯anand Muslim Literature B. Paoli Dmitry Frolov, Classical Arabic Verse: 400 History and Theory of ,Ar¯ud. R. Amitai Matthew S. Gordon, The Breaking of 413 a Thousand Swords: A History of the Turkish Military of Samarra (A.H. 200–275/815–889 C.E.) S. Stroumsa David Thomas, ed., Syrian Christians 420 under Islam — The First Thousand Years J. Dammen McAuliﬀe John J. Donohue, S. J. and Christian 423 W. Troll, S. J., eds., Faith, Power, and Violence: Muslims and Christians in a Plural Society, Past and Present C. Holes Alexander Borg, ed., The Language of 425 Color in the Mediterranean Y. Lev F¯at.imid history and the history of 429 medieval Egypt: a review article Y. Rappoport David S. Powers, Law, Society and 435 Culture in the Maghrib, 1300–1500 34 Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam

Vol. 29 (2004) Studies in honour of Moshe Piamenta

Professor Moshe Piamenta i Moshe Piamenta—Bibliography v A. Levin The status of the science of grammar 1 among Islamic sciences S. Hopkins Kaˇskaˇsa 17 J. Blau On the structural autonomy of neo- 35 Arabic features as against classical ones I. Ferrando Andalus¯ıArabic in its linguistic setting 41 J. Lentin Documents sur l’arabe à Chypre au 55 17èmesiècle T. Zewi Grammatical agreement in Saadya 84 Gaon’s translation of the Pentateuch Y. Peled Accusatival subjects in Arabic non- 111 transitive constructions and the unac- cusative hypothesis W. Arnold Homonymenfurcht in den arabischen 136 Dialekten Antiochiens A. Geva-Kleinberger Memories of the Sea of Galilee: the 145 Jewish Arabic dialect of Tiberias O. Jastrow The Arabic dialects of the Mutallat 166 ¯ ¯ (Central Israel) O. Kapeliuk Iranian and Turkic structural interfer- 176 ence in Arabic and Aramaic dialects H. Palva Remarks on the Arabic dialect of the 195 H. w¯et.¯attribe R. Talmon 19th century Palestinian Arabic: the 210 testimony of Western travellers G. M. Rosenbaum Egyptian Arabic as a written language 281 P. Behnstedt Bezügezwischen maghrebinischen und 341 jemenitischen Dialekten A. Maman The Sefrou (Morocco) version of al- 358 ,aˇsarkalim¯at A. Arazi Périodisation, oralitéet authenticitéde 377 la poésiearabe préislamique I. Hasson L’affiliation (di,wa) de Ziy¯adb. Ab¯ıhi 413

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F. J. Aguirre S´adaba Ersilia Francesca, Teoria e pratica del 426 commercio nell’Islam medievale. I con- tratti di vendita e di commenda nel diritto ibadita. H. Busse Andreas Kaplony, The H. aram of 431 Jerusalem 324–1099. Temple, Friday Mosque, Area of Spiritual Power. Tables of Contents 35

A. Ghabin R. P. Buckley, trans., The Book of the 441 Islamic Market Inspector: Nih¯ayatal- rutba f¯ı. talab al-h. isba — the Utmost Authority in the Pursuit of H. isba, by ,Abd al-Rah. m¯anb. Nas.r al-Shayzar¯ı. J. Brockopp Gideon Libson, Jewish and Islamic 449 Law. A Comparative Study of Custom during the Geonic Period. D. Talmon-Heller Jonathan Berkey, The Formation of Is- 455 lam. Religion and Society in the Near East 600–1800 36 Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam

Vol. 30 (2005) From J¯ahiliyya to Islam Colloquium 9, Jerusalem, July 2003

C. J. Robin H. imyar, des inscriptions aux traditions 1 Z. Rubin Ibn al-Muqaﬀa, and the account of 52 Sasanian history in the Arabic codex Sprenger 30 U. Rubin Muh. ammad the exorcist: aspects of 94 Islamic-Jewish polemics C. Adang The Prophet’s farewell pilgrimage 112 (h. ijjat al-wad¯a,): the true story, according to Ibn H. azm H. Ben-Shammai The status of parable and simile in the 154 Qur-¯anand early tafs¯ır: polemic, ex- egetical and theological aspects M. Levy-Rubin Shur¯ut. ,Umar and its alternatives: the 170 legal debate on the status of the dhimm¯ıs A. Hakim ,Umar b. al-Khat.t.¯ab and the title 207 khal¯ıfatAll¯ah: a textual analysis E. Francesca Early Ib¯ad.¯ıjurisprudence: sources and 231 case law A. Arazi Po´etique et politique dans Kit¯ab al- 264 .tabaq¯at d’Ibn al-Mu,tazz A. Silverstein A neglected chapter in the history of 293 caliphal state-building R. Brunner The role of h. ad¯ıth as cultural memory 318 in Sh¯ı,¯ıhistory R. Hoyland Physiognomy in Islam 361 J. Sadan Ants, miracles and mythological mon- 403 sters: a literary study of ant narratives between a J¯ah. iz.ian atmosphere and Mun¯aj¯atM¯us¯a S. Sviri The early mystical schools of Baghdad 450 and N¯ısh¯ap¯ur:in search of Ibn Mun¯azil M. Rosen-Ayalon From J¯ahiliyya to Islam: an aspect of 483 Islamic art

R. Talmon G¯aya˙ , .sifa and al-kal¯amal-w¯as.if in Ibn 506 Muqaﬀa,’s manual of logic: new consid- erations about the beginning of Arabic grammar Reviews Tables of Contents 37

A. Arazi Reinhard Weipert. Classical Arabic 521 Philology & Poetry. A bibliographi- cal handbook of important editions from 1960 to 2000 U. Rubin Alan Dundes. Fables of the Ancients? 526 Folklore in the Qur-¯an K. Versteegh Rafael Talmon. Eighth-century Iraqi 528 grammar: A critical exploration of pre- Hal¯ılianArabic linguistics ˘ M. Katz Nurit Tsafrir. The History of an Is- 536 lamic School of Law: The Early Spread of Hanaﬁsm U. Rubin Walid A. Salih. The Formation of 540 the Classical Tafs¯ır Tradition: The Qur-¯an Commentary of al-Tha,lab¯ı (d. 427/1035) A. Arazi ,Abd al-Rah. m¯anIbn Nas.r al-Shayzar¯ı. 544 Rawd. at al-qul¯ub wa-nuzhat al-muh. ibb wa-l-mah. b¯ub, ed. initiated by David Semah, completed and brought to press by George Kanazi, Codices Arabici An- tiqui, Band VIII A. Arazi Amnon Shiloah. The Theory of Music 559 in Arabic writings (C. 900–1900) J. Rubanowich Ab¯u T. ¯ahir-i T. art.¯us¯ı. Ab¯u Muslim- 566 n¯amah. Ed. by H. usayn Ism¯a,¯ıl¯ı M. Biran George Lane. Early Mongol Rule in 572 Thirteenth Century Iran: A Persian Renaissance D. Bouˇsek Josef W. Meri. The Cult of Saints 576 among Muslims and Jews in Medieval Syria Corrigenda 582 38 Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam

Vol. 31 (2006) Studies in memory of Franz Rosenthal (I)

Sh. Shaked Professor Franz Rosenthal i L.I. Conrad The chain topos 1 A. Hakim ,Umar b. al-Khat.t.¯abas a fighter against 34 Satan G. Hawting The slaughter of a d. ah. iyya during h. ajj 58 and the origins of ,Id¯ al-ad. h. ¯a J. Nawas The birth of an elite: maw¯al¯ı and Arab 74 ,ulam¯a- P. Crone Ab¯uSa,¯ıdal-H. ad. r¯ıand the punishment 92 of unbelievers A. Levin An interpretation of two difficult pas- 107 sages from al-Kit¯ab referring to the ,¯amil in elliptical sentences J.A. Bellamy Ten Qur-¯anicemendations 118 U. Rubin Qur-¯anand poetry: more data concern- 139 ing the Qur-¯anic jizya verse (,an yadin) H. Motzki Dating the so-called Tafs¯ırIbn ,Abb¯as: 147 some additional remarks J. Lassner Muslims on the sanctity of Jerusalem: 164 preliminary thoughts on the search for a conceptual framework B. Abrahamov The attitude of Ja,far al-S. ¯adiqand ,Al¯ı 196 al-Rid. ¯atoward kal¯am and rational rea- soning G. Böwering Two early S. ¯uf¯ımanuscripts 209 M. Fierro The Ans.¯ar¯ıs, N¯as.ir al-D¯ın and the 232 Nas.rids in al-Andalus D. Cook Apostasy from Islam: a historical per- 248 spective Y. Lev Piety and political activism in twelfth 289 century Egypt M. Marin Knowledge, kinship, and mysticism: 325 the formative years of Sulaym¯an al- H. aww¯at(d. 1231/1816)

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J. Rets¨o Eva Orthmann. Stamm und Macht. 343 Die arabischen St¨ammeim 2. und 3. Jahrhundert der Hiˇgra. R.G. Hoyland Nadia Maria El Cheikh. Byzantium 356 viewed by the Arabs Y. Lev Documentary and literary sources and 359 the history of medieval Egypt: review article Tables of Contents 39

Vol. 32 (2006) Studies in memory of Franz Rosenthal (II)

R. Milstein and B. Moor Wonders of a changing world: late illus- 1 trated ,aj¯a-ib manuscripts (part I) M. Rosen-Ayalon A contribution to Khur¯as¯anmetalwork 49 A. Arazi La littératurede confession dans la cul- 80 ture arabe médiévale S. Günther Praise to the book! Al-J¯ah. iz. and Ibn 125 Qutayba on the excellence of the written word in medieval Islam C.W. Ernst Fragmentary versions of the apocryphal 144 ‘Hymn of the pearl’ in Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and Urdu A. Hámori Shameful and injurious: an idea of Ibn 189 al-Muqaffa,’s in Kal¯ılawa-Dimna and al-Adab al-kab¯ır J. Sadan and N. Basal Some fragments of Judaeo-Arabic po- 213 etry (mun¯aj¯atM¯us¯a?) J. Rubanovich Aspects of medieval intertextuality: 247 verse insertions in Persian prose d¯ast¯ans Li Guo Self-mockery as a genre in Maml¯uk 269 satiric poetry: Ibn D¯aniy¯alon his es- tranged wife and midlife crisis C. Adang The chronology of the Israelites accord- 286 ing to H. amza al-Is.fah¯an¯ı R.G. Hoyland Polemon’s encounter with Hippocrates 311 and the status of Islamic physiognomy B. Chiesa and S. Schmidtke The Jewish reception of Samaw-al al- 327 Maghrib¯ı’s (d. 570/1175) Ifh. ¯am al- yah¯ud. Some evidence from the Abra- ham Firkovitch collection I J.L. Kraemer How (not) to read The Guide of the 350 Perplexed D.J. Wasserstein The date and authorship of the letter 410 of consolation attributed to Maym¯un b. Y¯usuf H. Ben-Shammai Babylonian Aramaic in Arabic charac- 419 ters: a passage from ,Anan’s Book of precepts in a work by Yeshu,ah b. Ju- dah the Karaite J. Blau and S. Hopkins On Aramaic vocabulary in early 433 Judaeo-Arabic texts written in pho- netic spelling B. Radtke Syrisch: die sprache der engel, der 472 geister und der erleuchteten. Einige stücke aus dem ibr¯ız des Ah. mad b. al- Mub¯arakal-Lamat.¯ı 40 Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam

S. Shaked Notes on some Jewish Aramaic inscrip- 503 tions from Georgia

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M. Levy-Rubin Rifaat Ebied and David Thomas, eds. 511 Muslim-Christian Polemic during the Crusades: The Letter from the Peo- ple of Cyprus and Ibn Ab¯ı T. ¯alib al- Dimashq¯ı’sResponse W. Jansen Anke Bossaller. ‘Schlafende Schwan- 523 gerschaft’ in Islamischen Gesell- schaften. Entstehung und soziale Implikationen einer weiblichen Fiktion. Tables of Contents 41

Vol. 33 (2007) Studies in honour of YohananFriedmann

Professor Yohanan Friedmann i Yohanan Friedmann—Bibliography v A. Levin Arabic grammar and classical Arabic 1 Z. Maghen Intertwined triangles: remarks on the 17 relationship between two prophetic scandals U. Rubin The hands of Ab¯u Lahab and the 93 gazelle of the Ka,ba A. Arazi La collision des genres dans les al- 99 Naq¯a-id. de Jar¯ıret d’al-Farazdaq M. Fierro The mobile minbar in Cordoba: how 149 the Umayyads of al-Andalus claimed the inheritance of the Prophet M. Cook Ibn Sa,d¯ıon truth-blindness 169 E. Almagor The pious man and the ruler: a literary 179 form in the service of government J. Sadan New materials regarding purity and im- 193 purity of books in Islam in comparison with Judaism R. Amitai An Arabic biographical notice of Kit- 219 bugh¯a,the Mongol general defeated at ,Ayn J¯al¯ut D.S. Powers and From the Mi,y¯ar of al-Wanshar¯ıs¯ı to E. Terem the new Mi,y¯ar of al-Wazz¯an¯ı:continu- 235 ity and change D. Cook Messianism in the mid-11th/17th cen- 261 tury as exempliﬁed by al-Barzanj¯ı (1040–1103/1630–1691) A. Layish The Sudanese Mahd¯ı’s legal metho- 279 dology and its S. ¯uf¯ıinspiration L.I. Conrad Goldziher on archaeology and explo- 309 ration in nineteenth-century Palestine F.H. Stewart A Bedouin proto-state in late Ottoman 343 Syria: the Jub¯uron the Kh¯ab¯urin 1914 W. H¨utteroth The Jub¯urtribe of north-eastern Syria 375 as described by shaykh Sulaym¯anal- ,Al¯ıal-As,ad R.M. Eaton Patterns of migration to north India 393 and the Deccan, 1200–1700 C.W. Ernst Accounts of yogis in Arabic and Persian 409 historical and travel texts M. Alam and Acculturation or tolerance? Inter- 427 S. Subrahmanyam faith relations in Mughal North India, c. 1750 M. Gaborieau A peaceful jih¯ad? South Asian Mus- 467 lim proselytism as seen by Ah. madiyya, Tabl¯ıgh¯ıJam¯a,at and Jam¯a,at-i Isl¯am¯ı 42 Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam

S. Digby Beatings and the sensation of release 487 among the followers of B¯ab¯aMus¯aﬁr

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B. Abrahamov J. van Ess. The Flowering of Muslim 495 Theology M.A. Amir-Moezzi Paradise of Submission: A Medieval 499 Treatise on Ismaili Thought. A New Persian Edition and English Trans- lation of Nas.¯ıral-D¯ınT. ¯us¯ı’s Rawd. a-yi tasl¯ım K. Cytryn-Silverman P. Willey. Eagle’s Nest: Ismaili Cas- 503 tles in Iran and Syria S.E. Fassberg Current Issues in the Analysis of 513 Semitic Grammar and Lexicon I: Oslo- Göteborg Cooperation 3rd–5th June 2004 Cl. Gilliot C. Schöck. Koranexegese, Gram- 519 matik und Logik. Zum Verhältnisvon arabischer und aristotelischer Urteils-, Konsequenz- und Schlusslehre A. Layish Y. Rapoport. Marriage, Money and 529 Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society S. La Porta James R. Russell. Armenian and Ira- 533 nian Studies J. Sadan M. Fleischhammer. Die Quellen des 537 Kit¯abal-A˙g¯an¯ı F.H. Stewart C. Holes. Dialect, Culture, and Society 541 in Eastern Arabia CONTENTS

Ch.J. Robin Joseph, dernier roi de H. imyar (de 522 a 1 525, ou une des anneessuivantes) D. Cook The as.h. abal-ukhdud: history and h. adth 125 in a martyrological sequence J. Jany Persian in uence on the Islamic oce of 149 qad.al-qud. at: a reconsideration K. Szilagyi Muh. ammad and the monk: the making of 169 the Christian Bah.ralegend M. Pregill Isra-liyyat, myth, and pseudepigraphy: 215 Wahb b. Munabbih and the early Islamic versions of the fall of Adam and Eve A. Silverstein Haman'stransition from Jahiliyya to Islam 285 M.J. Kister Layamassuhu illa'l-mut.ahharun.. . notes 309 on the interpretations of a Qur-anicphrase M. Muranyi From thiqa to d. a,f in early .tabaqat- 335 literature: an intertextual approach to ,ilm al-rijal U. Rubin Between Arabia and the holy land: a 345 Mecca-Jerusalem axis of sanctity U. Martensson \The persuasive proof": a study of Aris- 363 totle's politics and rhetoric in the Qur-an and in al-T. abar'scommentary A. Hakim Glorious Hamdan: a new source for the 421 battle of S. i n A. Arazi AbuTammam,lecteur de la poesiearabe 459 preislamique A.A. Hussein The formative age of naqa-id. poetry: Abu 499 ,Ubayda's Naqa-id. Jarrwa-'l-Farazdaq

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M. Lecker The prosopography of early Islamic admin- 529 istration

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E. Landau-Tasseron Is jihad comparable to just war? a review 535 article Y. Lev Medieval Egypt and its international con- 551 text: a review article J. Lentin Borg, Alexander. Comparative glossary of 567 Cypriot Maronite Arabic

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Vol. 35 (2008)

G. Avni The Byzantine-Islamic transition in the 1 Negev: an archaeological perspective Z. Rubin H. amza al-Is.fah¯an¯ı’s sources for Sasa- 27 nian history A. Ghabin Some J¯ahil¯ıorigins of the h. isba 59 Z. Maghen Davidic motifs in the biography of 91 Muh. ammad U. Bitan Asm¯a- dh¯atal-nit.¯aqayn and the politics 141 of mythical motherhood A. Elad ,Abd al-Malik and the Dome of the 167 Rock: a further examination of the Muslim sources Y. Lev The jih¯ad of sultan N¯ural-D¯ınof Syria 227 (1146–1174): history and discourse A. Layish Islamization of custom as reflected in 285 awards of tribal arbitrators in the Ju- daean desert E. Lev, L. Chipman, Chicken and chicory are good for you: 335 F. Niessen a unique family prescription from the Cairo Genizah (T–S NS 223.82–83) M. Schneider Deux stèlesfunérairesmusulmanes du 353 Yémen K. Cytryn-Silverman Three Maml¯ukminarets in Ramla 379

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U. Rubin Stefan Wild, ed. Self-referentiality in 433 the Qur-¯an. A. Sadan Robert Marzari. Arabic in chains. 441 Structural problems and artificial bar- riers. A. Abu Rabia Clinton Bailey. A culture of desert sur- 445 vival: Bedouin proverbs from Sinai and the Negev. Y. Rapoport Maya Shatzmiller. Her day in court. 449 Women’s property rights in fifteenth- century Granada. M. Shefer Le Gall, Dina. A culture of Sufism: 453 Naqshband¯ıs in the Ottoman world, 1450–1700. 44 Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam

Vol. 36 (2009) Studies in memory of Moshe Perlamn

S. Schmidtke Moshe Perlmann (1905–2001): a schol- 1 arly biography S. Schmidtke Moshe Perlmann (1905–2001): a bibli- 33 ography M. Levy-Rubin Were the Jews prohibited from settling 63 in Jerusalem? On the authenticity of al-T. abar¯ı’sJerusalem surrender agreement F. Astren Re-reading the Arabic sources: Jewish 83 history and the Muslim conquests K. Szilágyi A prophet like Jesus? Christians and 131 Muslims debating Muh. ammad’s death M. Goldstein Sa,adya’s Tafs¯ır in light of Muslim 173 polemic against ninth-century Arabic Bible translations S. Stroumsa The beginnings of mystical philosophy and S. Sviri in al-Andalus: Ibn Masarra and his 201 Epistle on contemplation B. Chiesa ,Abd al-Jabb¯aron Christianity accord- 255 ing to the original Kit¯abal-muh.¯ıt. C. Adang Intra- and interreligious controversies 281 in 3rd/9th century Qayraw¯an: the polemics of Muh. ammad b. Sah. n¯un A. Hakim Some notes on Ris¯alatdh¯atal-bay¯anf¯ı 311 al-radd ,al¯aIbn Qutayba by al-Q¯ad.¯ıal- Nu,m¯anb. Muh. ammad (d. 363/974) S.T. Keating An early list of .sif¯atAll¯ah in Ab¯uR¯a-it.a 339 al-Takr¯ıt¯ı’s “First ris¯ala ‘on the holy trinity’ ” D. Thomas Christian voices in Muslim theology 357 A. Salamah-Qudsi Institutionalized mashyakha in the 381 twelfth century S. ¯ufism of ,Umar al- Suhraward¯ı J. Tolan A life of Muh. ammad from fifteenth- 425 century Spain S. Schmidtke The rightly guiding epistle (al-Ris¯alaal- 439 h¯adiya) by ,Abd al-Sal¯amal-Muhtad¯ı al-Muh. ammad¯ı:a critical edition Tables of Contents 45

V.B. Moreen Judaeo-Persian poems in praise of 471 prophets: polemical and messianic ex- pressions G. Kr¨amer “New ﬁqh” applied: Y¯usufal-Qarad. ¯aw¯ı 489 on non-Muslims in Islamic society

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Y. Lev The lure of India: a review article 517 R. Contini Werner Arnold and Hartmut Bobzin, 527 eds. “Sprich doch mit deinen Knechten aramäisch, wir verstehen es!” 60 Beiträgezur Semitistik. Festschrift für Otto Jastrow zum 60. Geburtstag. H. Motzki G.H.A. Juynboll. Encyclopedia of 539 canonical h. ad¯ıth. F. Déroche Oleg Grabar. The Dome of the Rock. 551 B. Abrahamov Ayman Shihadeh, ed. Sufism and the- 553 ology. A.L. Beelaert L. Lewisohn and Ch. Shackle, eds. 565 ,At..t¯arand the Persian Sufi tradition. The art of spiritual flight. B. Abrahamov Andrew J. Lane. A traditional 573 Mu,tazilite Qur-¯ancommentary — the Kashsh¯afof J¯arAll¯ahal-Zamakhshar¯ı (d. 538/1144). R. McGregor Daphna Ephrat. Spiritual wayfarers, 577 leaders in piety: Sufis and the dissemi- nation of Islam in medieval Palestine. B.D. Metcalf Tahera Aftab. Inscribing South Asian 581 Muslim women: an annotated bibliography and research guide. H.J. Sharkey Umar Ryad. Islamic reformism and 585 Christianity: a critical reading of the works of Muh. ammad Rash¯ıdRid. ¯aand his associates (1898–1935). 46 Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam

Volume 37 (2010)

Studies in honour of Aryeh Levin I

Y. Friedmann and Aryeh Levin: a scholarly biography i S. Hopkins Aryeh Levin: list of publications vii G. Ayoub La description s´emantique du verbe 1 dans le Kit¯ab de S¯ıbawayhi I. Ferrando S¯ıbawayhi and the broken plural 53 K. Versteegh Pidgin Arabic and arabi sa,ab: the 61 inﬂuence of the standard language in the history of Arabic 81 Q k ñK.@ áK YË@ QåAK á K. ¬CmÌ'@ ú¯ øñjJË@ ÉÓAªË@ YK Ym' QK@

á J¯ñºË@ð á KQåJ.Ë@ A. Sadan The meaning of the technical term 129 jaw¯ab in Arabic grammar A. Kasher The terminology of vowels and i,r¯ab 139 in mediaeval Arabic grammatical tradition Y. Peled S¯ıbawayhi’s Kit¯ab and the teaching 163 of Arabic grammar Sh. Alon The sources of Ibn Manz.¯ur’s Lis¯an 189 al-,arab J. Blau New prepositions in mediaeval 201 Judaeo-Arabic O. Kapeliuk Some special features of Ethio- 207 Semitic morphology and syntax: in- alienables and intimate relationship in Amharic N. Basal Mediaeval Jewish and Muslim cul- 223 tures: an anonymous Judaeo-Arabic adaptation of Ibn Jinn¯ı’s al-Luma, F. Corriente -Im¯alah and other phonemic and 265 morphological features in sub- dialectal Andalus¯ıArabic J. Aguad´e The word for “nine” in Moroccan 275 Arabic and other euphemisms re- lated to numbers M. Bar-Asher The Maghrib¯ı sharh. to Tractate Avot 283 Tables of Contents 47

M. Muranyi Eine islamische Rechtsfrage ¨uber 297 Entsch¨adigungenzwischen Muslimen und Christen. Ein Beitrag zur Tex- tentwicklung und Textkritik in der Mudawwana

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M. Muranyi Adam Gacek. The Arabic manu- 307 script tradition. A glossary of technical terms and bibliography K. Dmitriev Georges Tamer. Zeit und Gott. Hel- 315 lenistische Zeitvorstellungen in der altarabischen Dichtung und im Ko- ran F.S. Stewart Kurt Franz. Vom Beutezug zur 325 Territorialherrschaft: das lange Jahrhundert des Aufstiegs von Nomaden zur Vormacht in Syrien und Mesopotamien, 286–420/889– 1029. Beduinische Gruppen in mittelislamischer Zeit I 48 Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam

Volume 38 (2011)

Studies in honour of Aryeh Levin II

A. Borg Phonological and lexical notes on 1 an Arabic manual of Morisco folk medicine C. Holes A participial infix in the eastern 75 Arabian dialects – an ancient pre- conquest feature? A. Geva Kleinberger A text in the Arabic dialect of the 99 Druze of ,Ayn Qinyi, the Golan heights O. Jastrow Qad¯amˇc¯ıye in Mardin 111 ¯. M. Shaw¯arbah The im¯alah in some Bedouin dialects 123 in the Negev O. Shachmon Pausal final im¯ala in central Pales- 145 tinian dialects A. Gaash The development of t from suffix to 163 prefix in neo-Arabic dialects and con- temporary colloquial Hebrew Y. Marom The fisherman and the wishing ring: 177 a text from the Tarab¯ınanNuw¯eb,a W. Arnold “Die Kommunisten müssen Leid 205 ertragen!” Ein Text im arabischen Dialekt von Isdud (Ashdod) G. Rosenbaum The influence of colloquial Arabic on 229 the language of the modern Egyptian press F.H. Stewart The word xamsah in Bedouin lan- 277 guage and law A.A. Hussein The rise and decline of naq¯a-id. 305 poetry REVIEWS

M. Marmorstein Michael Waltisberg. Satzkomplex 361 und Funktion: Syndese und Asyn- dese im Althocharabischen Y. Lev Dionisius A. Agius. Classic ships 391 of Islam. From Mesopotamia to the Indian Ocean Tables of Contents 49

D. DeWeese Islamisation de l’Asie centrale: Pro- 397 cessus locaux d’acculturation du VIIe au XIe si`ecle. Etienne´ de la Vaissi`ere,ed. K. Bauer Jutta Gisela Sperling and Shona 415 Kelly Wray, eds. Across the religious divide: women, property and law in the wider Mediterranean (ca. 1300– 1800) R. Milstein Finbarr B. Flood. Objects of trans- 421 lation: material culture and medieval “Hindu-Muslim” encounter CONTENTS

Christian Julien Robin Abraha et la reconquêtede l’Arabie 1 déserte:un réexamende l’inscription Ryckmans 506 = Murayghan 1 Adam Silverstein From Atrahasis to Afr¯ıd¯un: on 95 the transmission˘ of an ancient Near Eastern motif to Islamic Iran Ali A. Hussein Novel aspects of the ancient Arabic 109 qas.¯ıda Gerald R. Hawting The development of the doctrine of 141 the infallibility (,is.ma) of prophets and the interpretation of Qur-¯an 8:67–69 Miklos Muranyi The emergence of holy places in early 165 Islam: on the Prophet’s track Amir Lerner Power of perception: noblemen and 173 beggars (ju,aydiyya): narratives in the “Montague manuscript” of the Arabian nights Michael Ebstein The word of God and the divine will: 247 Ism¯a,¯ıl¯ıtraces in Andalus¯ımysticism Yaacov Lev Coptic rebellions and the Islamiza- 303 tion of medieval Egypt (8th–10th century): medieval and modern percep- tions Delia Cortese Voices of the silent majority: the 345 transmission of Sunn¯ı learning in F¯at.im¯ıEgypt Myriam Rosen-Ayalon A contribution to the story of 367 Umayyad windows Koby Yosef Dawlat al-atr¯ak or dawlat al- 387 mam¯al¯ık? Ethnic origin or slave origin as the defining characteristic of the ruling élite in the Maml¯uk sultanate Aryeh Levin A new contribution to the history of 411 the modern Arabic dialects of Iraq

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Yaacov Lev Law and society in medieval Islam: a 423 review article Jens Scheiner Görke, Andreas and Schoeler, Gre- 437 gor. Die ältestenBerichte über das Leben Muh. ammads. Das Korpus ,Urwa ibn az-Zubair Meir M. Bar-Asher Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi. Le 443 Coran silencieux et le Coran parlant: Sources scripturaires de l’islam entre histoire et ferveur Michael Ebstein Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi. The 451 spirituality of Shi,i Islam. Beliefs and practices Gotthard Strohmaier A Greek and Arabic lexicon 463 (GALex). Materials for a dictionary of the mediaeval translations from Greek into Arabic. Edited by Gerhard Endress and Dimitri Gutas Adam Gaiser John C. Wilkinson. Ib¯ad. ism: origins 467 and early development in Oman Arin Salamah-Qudsi John J. Curry and Erik S. Ohlander, 479 eds. S. ¯ufismand society: arrange- ments of the mystical in the Muslim world, 1200–1800 Alfred Ivry Sarah Stroumsa. Maimonides in his 487 world: portrait of a Mediterranean thinker Joas Wagemakers Daniel Lav. Radical Islam and the 493 revival of medieval theology Eviatar Shulman Akasoy, Anna, Burnett, Charles, and 501 Yoeli-Tlalim, Ronit. Islam and Ti- bet: Interactions along the Musk Routes Corrigenda 511