ISLAMIC RELIGION Drs Christopher Melchert & Pascal Held •TT, 5th week: law in the High Middle Provisional schedule for Hilary-Trinity Ages. Terms 2016 •TT, 6th week: Sufism in the High Middle SET TEXTS: Ages. Abū Ya‛lá ibn al-Farrā’ (d. 458/1065). One tutorial on law. Al-Aḥkām al-sulṭānīyah. Edited by Muḥammad Ḥāmid al-Fiqī. 2nd edition. •TT, 7th week: Sufism in the High Middle Cairo: Maktabat Muṣṭafá al-Bābī al-Ḥalabī, Ages. 1386/1966. 153-4. Text on Thursday: Riḍā. Al-Sha‛rānī (d. 973/1565). Al-Ṭabaqāt al-kubrá. 2 vols in 1. Cairo: Maṭba‛at One tutorial this week or next Muṣṭafá al-Bābī al-Ḥalabī, 1373/1954. 2:160-1, biography of Muḥammad ibn Abī •TT, 8th week: the 20th century. Jamrah. Text on Thursday: Riḍā. Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā (d. 1935), Tafsīr al-Qur’ān al-ḥakīm. 12 vols. Cairo: n.p.: One Sufism tutorial. n.d.-1353). 5:119-20, ad Q. 4:43. Unless otherwise announced, tutorials in Copies of these texts have been uploaded to weeks 2-4 will take place in Pembroke Weblearn under Humanities/Oriental Stud- College, SCR Staircase, through the door ies/Islamic World/Resources. between the first and second floors with ‘Dr Christopher Melchert’ on it, then up the SCHEDULE narrow stairs and down the hall. Bring hard copies of essays and other written work. •HT, 8th week: law. Places were assigned at random. If you don’t like the luck of your draw, feel free to Text on Thursday: Abū Ya‛lá. trade with someone else but do not com- plain (and no asking Melchert or Held to •TT, 1st week: Hadith. negotiate on students’ behalf). Tutorials in weeks 5-8 will take place in the Oriental Text on Thursday: how to use rijāl Institute, room 209. Essays (typed, dictionaries. double-spaced) should be brought to the tutorial session and handed in then. •TT, 2nd week: law—early literature. Week 2 tutorials. Text on Thursday: Sha‛rānī. One hadith tutorial. 2.v.16 5 pm Patrick Benjamin & George Swainston •TT, 3rd week: law—early theory. 2.v.16 6 pm Claire Smark & Sophie Dowle Text on Thursday: Sha‛rānī. One law 3.v.16 5 pm Emmeline Skinner-Cassidy & tutorial this week or next. Lydie Sheehan 3.v.16 6 pm Theo Hodson & Rory •TT, 4th week: Sufism. Farquharson Islamic Religion HT-TT 2016 page 2 4.v.16 5 pm Nicola Adams & Lydia Ellis 1.vi.16 5 pm Sophie Dowle & Lydie 4.v.16 6 pm Charlotte Rudman & Ross Sheehan King 1.vi.16 6 pm Patrick Benjamin & Rory Farquharson 5.v.16 5 pm Rhiannon Rees & Zoe Sandford 2.vi.16 5 pm Ross King & Kate Benn 5.v.16 6 pm Kate Benn & Flaminia 2.vi.16 6 pm Rhiannon Rees & Tine Baldwin Aistrup 6.v.16 5 pm Tine Aistrup & Isabel Garrood 3.vi.16 5 pm Flaminia Baldwin & Isabel Garrood Week 3-4 tutorials Week 8 tutorials 12.v.16 5 pm Zoe Sandford & Nicola Adams 13.vi.16 5 pm Lydie Sheehan & Sophie 12.v.16 5 pm George Swainston & Tine Dowle Aistrup 13.vi.16 5 pm Patrick Benjamin & Rory Farquharson 13.v.16 5 pm Kate Benn & Ross King 13.v.16 6 pm Theo Hodson & Emmeline 14.vi.16 5 pm Isabel Garrood & Claire Skinner-Cassidy Smark 14.vi.16 6 pm & George Swainston & 16.v.16 5 pm Charlotte Rudman & Lydia Nicola Adams Ellis 16.v.16 6 pm Patrick Benjamin & Flaminia 15.vi.16 5 pm Rhiannon Rees & Tine Baldwin Aistrup 15.vi.16 6 pm Theo Hodson & Kate Benn 17.v.16 5 pm Lydie Sheehan & Claire Smark 16.vi.16 5 pm Zoe Sandford & Lydia Ellis 17.v.16 6 pm Isabel Garrood & Sophie 16.vi.16 6 pm Ross King & Emmeline Dowle Skinner-Cassidy 18.v.16 5 pm Rhiannon Rees & Rory 17.vi.16 5 pm Charlotte Rudman & Farquharson Flaminia Baldwin Week 6 tutorials About dictionaries. Cowan-Wehr is a fine dictionary for modern literary Arabic, as 30.v.16 5 pm Charlotte Rudman & Zoe the title says, but it has its limitations when Sandford it comes to medieval Arabic. Three highly 30.v.16 5 pm Lydia Ellis & Nicola Adams useful dictionaries of medieval Arabic are Lane at FOL. PJ6640.L3 LAN 1984 and 31.v.16 5 pm George Swainston & PJ6635 LAN.2, Biberstein-Kazimirski at Emmeline Skinner-Cassidy PJ 6635 BIB, and Hava at PJ 6635 HAV 31.v.16 6 pm Claire Smark & Theo Hodson and in various college libraries. The chief drawback to Lane’s dictionary, a synthesis of medieval Arabic dictionaries, is that he Islamic Religion HT-TT 2016 page 3 died before finishing, so it peters out at qāf. Ibn ‛Adī al-Qaṭṭān (d. Gurgan, A continuation at FOL. PJ 6635 WOR 365/975-6?). Al-Kāmil fī ḍu‛afā’ al-rijāl. 6 covers kāf and lām. Secondarily, it’s better vols. Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1404/1984. FOL for poetry than religion, history, and other BP 136.5 I223 IBN 1984. fields. The trouble with Kazimirski is that it requires French. Hava is a shorter alter- Ibn Ḥajar (d. Cairo, 852/1449). native. Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb. 12 vols. Edited by Muṣṭafá ‛Abd al-Qādir ‛Aṭā. 12 vols. About sources. The bibliography below Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-‛Ilmīyah, includes shelfmarks for items in the Ori- 1415/1994. BP 136.48 I42 IBN 1994 Ref. ental Institute Library. Don’t check out books that your fellow students will want as Al-Kutub al-sittah. Mawsū‛at well as you. Photocopy the sections you al-ḥadīth al-sharīf. Riyadh: Dār al-Salām, need if you won’t just read them in the lib- 1420/1999. FOL BP 135 A1 M38 MAW rary. (Some are also now available elec- 1999 Ref. tronically.) Al-Mizzī (d. Damascus, 742/1341). TOPICS FOR TUTORIAL ESSAYS Tahdhīb al-Kamāl fī ma‛rifat al-rijāl. Edited by Bashshār ‛Awwād Ma‛rūf. 35 I. Hadith. Dickinson, chap. 6, offers an vols. Beirut: Mu’assasat al-Risālah, excellent summary of how early-medieval 1980-92/1400-13. BP 136.48 M59 MIZ hadith criticism actually worked. You can 1980. retrace the steps of a medieval critic by ana- lysing the asānīd to half a dozen versions of Muslim (d. 261/875). Sahîh Mus- one hadith report. In Ibn Ḥajar or Mizzī, lim. Edited by Abu Tâhir ‛Ali Za’i. Trans- look up the names of the transmitters and lated by Nasiruddīn al-Khattab. Translation record where they were from and when edited by Huda Khattab. Reviewed by Abu they died, if known. (Among the Six Khaliyl. 7 vols. Riyadh: Darussalam, 2007. Books, Muslim’s is the easiest to use for BP 135 A144 E5413 MAS 2007 Ref. this purpose, as he often provides multiple Adequate translation (mutūn only) with versions one after another. Al-Kutub al-sit- parallel Arabic text. tah includes a reasonable edition.) See Juynboll’s introduction and Motzki, Bibliography: secondary sources. ‘Dating’, for alternative accounts of how to date hadith reports. Dickinson, Eerik. The development of early Sunnite Ḥadīth criticism. Islamic Alternatively, you might read half a dozen history and civilization, studies and texts, biographies in Ibn ‛Adī, then decide what 38. Leiden: Brill, 2001. BP 136.48 I15 D53 method he uses to come to his conclusions DIC 2001. Also M01.E11903. about the reliability of different tradition- ists. In either case, it will probably be Juynboll, G. H. A. Encyclopedia of helpful to bring photocopies of your prim- canonical ḥadīth. Leiden: Brill, 2007. BP ary sources to the tutorial. 135.2 J89 JUY 2007 Ref. Also Arab. d. 18152. Bibliography: primary sources. Motzki, Harald. ‘Dating Muslim Islamic Religion HT-TT 2016 page 4 traditions: a survey’, Arabica 52 (2005): the law and the Qur’an? 204-53. P 790 ARA. Alternatively, again: look up some topic in II. Islamic law. Here are some suggested a book of law, then compare two or three topics for investigation. qur’anic commentaries on a relevant verse. 1) How schools argue for their rules. Read (For cursory presentations of Islamic law, five pages of one or more of the Muwaṭṭa’ see Ibn al-Naqīb, Ibn Rushd, Maghnīyah, of Mālik, the Umm of al-Shāfi‛ī, the al-Qāḍī al-Nu‛mān, Schacht, Introduction, Muṣannaf of Ibn Abī Shaybah, or the and al-Zuḥaylī; also The Encyclopaedia of Mukhtaṣar of al-Muzanī. Discuss how the Islam.) argument proceeds; e.g. how the author deals with contradictory hadith, to what Alternatively, find two multivolume degree the author sticks to revealed sour- accounts of Islamic law (one that gives not ces. The Muwaṭṭa’ is available in trans- only the rules but arguments for them) and lation, but it would be a good idea to read read corresponding sections in each to see the translation in parallel with the Arabic, how they use the Qur’an. In the OI Library, since translators are liable to correct archa- Ibn Qudāmah and al-Māwardī are especi- isms. It will probably help to read the ally recommended. You might like to look treatment of the same problem in Ibn over the relevant section of Ibn al-Naqīb or al-Naqīb or Ibn Rushd. Comparisons Ibn Rushd, first, to acquaint yourself with between works are usually fruitful. Al-Bājī the issues; e.g. if you chose to look into the offers an early commentary on the penalty for stealing, it would be helpful to Mukhtaṣar of al-Muzanī. Muwaṭṭa’, see what Ibn al-Naqīb or Ibn Rushd says al-Māwardī on the Significant secondary about it first, then look up the more detailed sources include Calder, Dutton, Lowry, and treatment in Ibn Qudāmah or al-Māwardī.