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Essays in Islamic philology, history, and philosophy /

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Essays in Islamic philology, history, and philosophy /

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edited by Alireza Korangy, Wheeler M. Thackston, Roy P. Mottahedeh, and William Granara.

xxxiv, 442 pages ;

24 cm.

Studies in the history and culture of the Middle East,

volume 31

2198-0853 ;

Essays primarily by former students of Professor Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani, Harvard University and Center for Middle Eastern Studies (1987-2014).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction -- Tabula Gratulatoria -- Selected Bibliography of Professor Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani -- Classical Persian Literature and Philology. Moving toward the modern : the nationalist imagery of Malik al-Shu'arā Bahār / Matthew C. Smith --Old Iranian motifs in Vīs o Rāmīn/ Rahim Shayegan -- Astronomical poems from the "four corners" of Persia (c. 1000-1500 CE) / Elaheh Kheirandish -- Classical Arabic Literature and Philology. Moving from Persian to Arabic / Alexander Matthew Key -- The iconic Sībawayh / Kristen Brustad -- Naming Shu'ūbīs / Sarah Bowen Savant -- Islamic Theology, Islamic Jurisprudence and Islamic Philosophy. Prioritizaing metaphysics over epistemology : divine justice ('Adl) and human reason ('Aql) in al-Shaykh al - Mufīd's theology / Kambiz GhaneaBassiri -- Returning to God throuh His names : cosmology and Dhikr in a fourteenth-century Sufi treatise / Ahmed El Shamsy -- Friednship in Islamic ethical philosophy / Roy Parviz Mottahedeh -- The poetic syllogism : foray into an inductive research proposal / A. David K. Owen -- The scattered and the gathered : Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī's infrequently asked questions / Elias Muhanna -- 'Aqul (reason ) in modern Shiite thought : the example of Muḥammad Jawād Maghniyya (1904-79) / Lynda Clarke -- Ṭūsī did not "opt out" : Shiite jurisprudence and the solidifcation of the stoning punishement in the Islamic legal tradition / Sarah Eltantawi -- 'Alī's contemplations on this world and the heareafter in the context of his life and times / Tahera Qutbuddin -- Islamic History and Historiography. Al-'Aṭṭāf b. Sufyān and Abbasid imperialism / Chase F. Robinson -- An early Arabic conversion story : the case of al-Faḍl b. Sahl / Michael Copperson -- A translation of the prolegomena to Żiyā' al-Dīn Baranī's Tārīkh-i Fīrūzshāhī / Blain Auer, .

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9783110313789 (PDF : online)

Arabic philology.

Civilization, Arab.

Islamic civilization.

Persian philology.

Korangy, Alireza

Mahdavī Dāmghānī, Aḥmad

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