AL-ʿUṢŪR AL-WUSṬĀ 23 (2015) THE JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST MEDIEVALISTS About Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is an international professional non-profit association of scholars interested in the study of the Islamic lands of the Middle East during the medieval period (defined roughly as 500-1500 C.E.). MEM officially came into existence on 15 November 1989 at its first annual meeting, held ni Toronto. It is a non-profit 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 effort 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 EDITORIAL BOARD, BOARD OF DIRECTORS, AL-ʿUṢŪR AL-WUSṬĀ (THE JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST MEDIEVALISTS) MIDDLE EAST MEDIEVALISTS Zayde Antrim, Trinity College President Sobhi Bourdebala, University of Tunis Matthew S. Gordon, Miami University Muriel Debié, École Pratique des Hautes Études Malika Dekkiche, University of Antwerp Vice-President Fred M. Donner, University of Chicago Sarah Bowen Savant, Aga Khan University David Durand-Guédy, Institut Français de Recherche en Iran and Research Centre for Anatolian Civilizations, Istanbul Secretary Nadia Maria El-Cheikh, American University of Beirut Antoine Borrut, University of Maryland Maribel Fierro, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Emma Gannagé, Georgetown University Treasurer Denis Genequand, University of Geneva Eric Hanne, Florida Atlantic University Ahmet Karamustafa, University of Maryland Étienne de La Vaissière, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Board Members Stephennie Mulder, The University of Texas at Austin Sean Anthony, University of Oregon Marina Rustow, Princeton University Elizabeth Urban, West Chester University Isabel Toral-Niehoff, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Alison Vacca, University of Tennessee Knoxville Editor of H-MEM Peter Webb, SOAS, University of London Letizia Osti, State University of Milan Luke Yarbrough, Saint Louis University ISSN 1068-1051 Copyright © 2015 Middle East Medievalists. All rights reserved. For submission guidelines, contact [email protected]. Website of the Middle East Medievalists: http://islamichistorycommons.org/mem/ Website of al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā (The Journal of Middle East Medievalists): http://islamichistorycommons.org/mem/al-usur-al-wusta/ Become a member of the Middle East Medievalists: http://islamichistorycommons.org/mem/membership-application/join-mem/ Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā (Editorial Office) 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 Patricia Crone, Recipient of the 2014 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award ............................................................................... iii-vi Remarks by R. Stephen Humphreys, Recipient of the 2013 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award ............................................................................... vii-x ARTICLES: Muḥammad’s Deputies in Medina Michael Cook ............................................................................................................................................................. 1-67 Māwardī’s Legal Thinking Christopher Melchert ............................................................................................................................................ 68-86 Ibn Aʿtham and His History Lawrence I. Conrad .............................................................................................................................................. 87-125 NOTES AND BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS: Can Doctoral Dissertations Disappear? A Look at Ibrahim al‐Hafsi’s “Correspondance officielle et privée d’al‐Qāḍī al‐Fāḍil” and its Prospects in a Digital Age Bogdan C. Smarandache ................................................................................................................................... 126-128 BOOK REVIEWS: Stephennie Mulder, The Shrines of the ʿAlids in Medieval Syria: Sunnis, Shiʿis and the Architecture of Coexistence Zayde Antrim ..................................................................................................................................................... 129-133 Robert Hoyland, In God’s Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire Fred M. Donner .................................................................................................................................................. 134-140 ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Maḥjūbī, Al-Muṣṭalaḥ al-ḥadīthī min khilāl Kitāb al-jarḥ wa-al-taʿdīl li-Ibn Abī Ḥātim al-Rāzī (240-327 H) Christopher Melchert ....................................................................................................................................... 141-142 Seta Dadoyan, The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World: Paradigms of Interaction, Seventh to Fourteenth Centuries. Volume One: The Arab Period in Armīnyah, Seventh to Eleventh Centuries Alison M. Vacca .................................................................................................................................................. 143-146 Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 23 (2015) TABLE OF CONTENTS (CONT.) BOOK REVIEWS (CONT.): Ṭaha Ḥusayn ʿAwaḍ Hudayl, Tamarrudāt al-qabīla fī ʿaṣr al-dawla al-Rasūlīya wa-atharhā fī al-ḥayāt al-ʿāmma fī al-Yaman (626-858 H) Daniel Martin Varisco ....................................................................................................................................... 147-148 Aziz al-Azmeh, The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity: Allāh and His People Peter Webb .......................................................................................................................................................... 149-153 Jāsim Muḥammad Kaẓim, Ahl al-dhimmah fī al-mujtamaʿ al-Baghdādī fī al-ʿahdayn al-Buwayhī wa-al-Saljūqī Luke Yarbrough ................................................................................................................................................. 154-159 IN MEMORIAM: Thierry Bianquis (1935-2004) Peri Bearman ...................................................................................................................................................... 160-163 Irene “Renie” A. Bierman-McKinney (1942-2015) Jere L. Bacharach ............................................................................................................................................... 164-166 Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928-2015) Arezou Azad ....................................................................................................................................................... 167-178 Clifford Edmund Bosworth: An Updated Bibliography Michael O’Neal ................................................................................................................................................... 179-217 “With All Good Wishes”: Remembering Patricia Crone (1945-2015) Karen Bauer, Bella Tendler Krieger, Deborah Tor, Kevin Van Bladel ....................................................... 218-226 Wolfhart P. Heinrichs (1941-2014) Michael Cooperson ........................................................................................................................................... 227-229 George T. Scanlon (1925-2014) Iman Abdulfattah .............................................................................................................................................. 230-236 ANNOUNCEMENTS: Join MEM or Renew Your MEMbership: An Invitation from Middle East Medievalists ........................ 237-238 George T. Scanlon Graduate Student Award in Arab and Islamic Civilizations .............................................. 238 Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 23 (2015) Letter from the Editors his new issue of al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā members and our MEMbership, we have (UW) marks a turning point. UW refashioned it into what you find here Tbegan in 1989 as a newsletter, before you: an online, open access, peer- edited by Sam Gellens, a co-founder with reviewed journal. Our aim is to make use Richard Bulliet of Middle East Medieval- of the best qualities of online publishing: ists. Fred Donner, as president of MEM the flexibility and timeliness that are a (1992-1994), then expanded UW into a hallmark of publications of this kind. We substantial bulletin, the first issue of which also believe that we will provide colleagues appeared in 1992 (4:1). He added new worldwide – especially those without features: research articles and reviews of ready access to the best libraries – a means books in Arabic and other Middle Eastern by which to keep abreast of trends in our languages, thus publications about which respective fields. many of us would not have been aware. We will continue where the bulletin The bulletin has played an invaluable role left off: we will produce reviews of new in this sense, and in continuing to provide publications, written in European and news of developments in the discipline.