Books and Written Culture of the Islamic World : Studies Presented to Claude Gilliot on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday.

Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- Professori emerito Claudio Gilliot Latina nuncupatio -- Claude Gilliot, A Biographical Sketch -- Authors -- Criteria for Authenticity of Prophecy in ʿAbd al-Masīḥ al-Kindī's Risāla -- Muḥammad b. Isḥāq ṣāḥib al-maghāzī: Was His Grandfather Jewish? -- Les Maʿānī al-Qurʾān d'al-Farrāʾ ou la théologie tempérée par la philologie -- Al-Mubarrad (d. 285/898) and Polysemy in the Qurʾān -- Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, l'arabe et le Bédouin -- The Ḥāshiya of Ibn al-Munayyir (d. 683/1284) on al-Kashshāf of al-Zamakhsharī -- New Light on the Translation of the Qurʾān of Ludovico Marracci from His Manuscripts Recently Discovered at the Order of the Mother of God in Rome -- Genres -- Le contre-discours coranique et la construction d'une figure de l'opposant -- Présentation coranique des messages prophétiques anciens: L'attitude de kufr dénoncée -- Locating the Qurʾān in the Epistemic Space of Late Antiquity -- Wirkende Worte: Das Ḥadīth und die Metaphysik -- Gedanken zur Charakteristik der arabischen gnomischen Poesie der frühen Abbasidenzeit -- Écrire le secret sans le révéler Remarques sur le vocabulaire technique de la poésie mystique persane -- Ibn Abī l-Iṣbaʿ al-Miṣrī et son traité sur le début des sourates -- Traditions -- Lisān ʿarabiyy mubīn - „klares Arabisch"? oder: „offenbar Arabisch", gar „geoffenbartes Arabisch"? -- More Light on Muḥammad's Pre-existence Qurʾānic and post-Qurʾānic Perspectives -- La présentation du Prophète au Temple -- Connecting Moses and Muḥammad -- Moïse et le rocher de la Querelle -- Abraham, Hagar and Ishmael at Mecca A Contribution to the Problem of Dating Muslim Traditions -- Index of Qurʾānic References -- Index of Biblical and Extra-Biblical References -- Index of Arabic, Latin and Persian Titles -- Index of Arabic, Latin and Persian Authors.

An international group of twenty-one friends and colleagues join together to explore authors, genres and traditions of the Muslim world reflecting and honouring the contribution of Claude Gilliot to Islamic studies.

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