O Ye Gentlemen: Arabic Studies on Science and Literary Culture, in Honor of Remke Kruk (Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science) (Multilingual Edition)

CONTENTS......Page 6
Foreword......Page 12
Publications of Remke Kruk, 1976–2006......Page 14
List of Plates......Page 20
Plates......Page 24

SCIENCE & PHILOSOPHY......Page 42
Ludovico de Varthema and the Unicorns in Mecca (1504) (Willem Pieter Gerritsen)......Page 44
Al-Maqrïzï's Treatise on Bees (Giovanni Canova)......Page 56
The Arabic Transmission of the Historia Animalium of Aristotle (Lou Filius)......Page 66
Some Recent Findings in Michael Scot's Arabic-Latin Translation of Aristotle's History of Animals (Aafke M.I. van Oppenraay)......Page 76
Scarabées, Scorpions, Cloportes et Corps Camphrés. Métamorphose, Réincarnation et Génération Spontanée dans l'Hétérodoxie Chiite (Daniel De Smet)......Page 80
The Reception of Avicenna's Physics in the Latin Middle Ages (Jules Janssens)......Page 96
A New Look at the Barber's Astrolabe in the Arabian Nights (Jan P. Hogendijk)......Page 106
Congruent Numbers in the Tenth and in the Twentieth Century (Frans Oort)......Page 118
Al-Färäbïs Aristoteles. Grundlagen seiner Erkenntnislehre (Hans Daiber)......Page 140
Al-Räzï (d. 925) on the Benefits of Sex. A Clinician Caught between Philosophy and Medicine (Peter E. Pormann)......Page 156
MEDICINE AND MAGIC......Page 154
'Pride and Prejudice, Praise and Blame' 'Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi's Views on Bad and Good Medical Practitioners (N. Peter Jo
osse)......Page 170
Axir ittibb innär. Texte zur Volksmedizin aus ilnas
andi in der Oase Dakhla (Manfred Woidich)......Page 184
The Argan Tree of South Morocco. An Ethnographic Note (Harry Stroomer)......Page 212
Gazing at the Sun. Remarks on the Egyptian Magician al-Buni and his Work 
(Jan Just Witkam)......Page 224
A Curious Arabic Talisman (Petra M. Sijpesteijn)......Page 242
HISTORY
......Page 252
The Vicissitudes of Time. A Contest between Black and White (Pieter Smoor)......Page 254
Ibn Battuta on Public Violence
 in the Delhi Sultanate (David Waines)......Page 272
Ibn Khaldu
n, a Critical Historian at Work. The Muqaddima on Secretaries and Secretarial Writing (Maaike van Berkel)......Page 288
Die Literarisierung der Mamlukischen Historiografie. Versuch einer Selbstkritik (Bernd Radtke)......Page 304
LITERATURE
......Page 316
Some Remarks on the Women's Stories in the Judeo-Arabic al-Faraj ba'd al-Shidda by Nissim Ibn Shahi
n (990–1062) (Arie Schippers)......Page 318
The Dawadar's Hunting Party. A Mamluk muzdawija tardiyya, probably by Shihab al-Din I
bn Fadl Allah (Thomas Bauer)......Page 332
Precious Stones, Precious Words. Al-Suyuti's al-Maqama al-yaqutiyya (Geert Jan van G
elder)......Page 354
'Welche Garten uns umfangen . . .' Three Poems by Friedrich Rückert, Translated from a Gotha Manuscript of the Sïrat al-Mujäh......Page 374
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Antar Overseas. Arabic Manuscripts in Europe in the Late 18th and Early 19th Century (Maurits H. van den Boogert)......Page 380
The Function(s) of Poetry in the Arabian Nights. Some Observations (Wolfhart Heinrichs)......Page 394
Narrative and Performance. Shahrazäd's Storytelling as a Ritual Act (Richard van Leeuwen)......Page 404
Orientalism à la Parisienne. Dr Mardrus, Kees van Dongen and the Thousand and One Nights (Arnoud Vrolijk)......Page 418
LANGUAGE
......Page 432
Gutta Cavat Lapidem (Manfred Ullmann)......Page 434
The Gender of Standard Arabic (Jan Jaap de Ruiter)......Page 448
ART AND MUSIC
......Page 462
Islamic Art and Architecture through the Eyes of Testas. Documentary Drawings and Genre Scenes (Luitgard Mols)......Page 464
Affe, Laute, Nachtigall. Tiere und Musik im Islam (Eckhard Neubauer)......Page 478
Revival of the Arabic Suite by Female Voices. The Art Interpreted by Aïcha Redouane and Beihdja Rahal (Anne van Oostrum)......Page 494
LAW AND RELIGION
......Page 508
A Medieval Islamic Law? Some Thoughts on the Periodization of the History of Islamic Law (Léon Buskens)......Page 510
On Women and Camels. Some Comments on a hadïth (Manuela Marín)......Page 526
Naïveté, Verses of Holy Writ, and Polemics. Phonemes and Sounds as Criteria: Biblical Verses Submitted to Muslim Scholars by a Converted Jew in the Reign of Sultan Bäyazïd (Beyazıt) II (1481–1512) (Joseph Sadan)......Page 536
Women Re-Shaping Coptic Visual Culture (Nelly van Doorn-Harder)......Page 552
Index......Page 568