Arabic Humanities, Islamic Thought: Essays in Honor of Everett K. Rowson

Contents
Editors’ Preface
List of Contributors
Tabula Gratulatoria
Publications of Everett K. Rowson
1 From Breath to Soul: The Quranic Word Rūḥ and
Its (Mis)interpretations
2 The Wiles of Women, The Guile of Men:
Re-reading Kayd in Sūrat Yūsuf
3
Some Ḥanbalī Views on Secret Marriage
4 Anta anā wa-anā minka (“You are me, and I am from you”): A Quasi-Nuṣayrī Fragment on the Intellect in the Early Ismāʿīlī Treatise
Kitāb Ta ʾwīl ḥurūf al-muʿjam
5 The Crucified Speaks: ʿAlī ibn al-Jahm on His
Day-Long Exposure at Nishapur
6 Man is Not the Only Speaking Animal: Thresholds
and Idiom in al-Jāḥiẓ
7 Beyond the Known Limits: Ibn Dāwūd al-Iṣfahānī’s
Chapter on “Intermedial” Poetry
8 Foul Whisperings: Madness and Poetry in
Arabic Literary History
9
Music for the Body, Music for the Soul
10
Zoroaster’s Many Languages
11
Song and Punishment
12
Fathers and Husbands
13
Writing the Past: Ancient Egypt through the Lensof Medieval Islamic Thought
14 “The Mosul Stand-Up, or a Riff on a Stiff”:
Al-Hamadhānī’s Maqāma of Mosul
15 An Edition of Al-Hamadhānī’s Al-Maqāma
Al-Mawṣiliyya
16 Sucker of One’s Mother’s Clitoris: A Study of a
Classical Arabic Insult
17 Commentators, Collators, and Copyists: Interpreting Manuscript Variation in the Exordium
of Al-Ḥarīrī’s Maqāmāt
18 Going the Extra Mayl: Two Texts on Medieval
Dynamics in the Islamic World
19 “Extremely Beautiful and Extremely Long”
Al-Qīrāṭī’s Exuberant Letter from the Year 761/1360
20 Enterprising Sultans and the Doge of Venice: Political Culture and the Patronage of Science and
Philosophy in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean
21 Contextualizing Muḥammad ʿAbduh’s Views on the
Family, Marriage, and Divorce
22 “Go directly home with decorum”: Conduct Books
for Egypt’s Young, ca. 1912
23
When Jews Attack: Toward a Social Psychology ofInter-Communal Violence in Yemen
24 Scope for Comparatism: Internationalist and Surrealist Resonances in Idwār Al-Kharrāṭ’s
Resistant Literary Modernity
25 Securing Consent: Islamic Development and the
Movement to Transform Egypt
Index of Quran Citations
General Index