Islamic Cultures, Islamic Contexts : Essays in Honor of Professor Patricia Crone.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Patricia Crone: A Brief Memoir -- Tabula Gratulatoria -- Curriculum Vitae of Patricia Crone -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1 Variant Traditions, Relative Chronology, and the Study of Intra-Quranic Parallels -- Chapter 2 The Earliest Attestation of the Dhimma of God and His Messenger and the Rediscovery of P. Nessana 77 (60s AH/680 CE) -- Chapter 3 Jewish Christianity and Islamic Origins -- Chapter 4 A Note on the Relationship between Tafsīr and Common Understanding with Reference to Contracts of Marriage -- Chapter 5 "Earnest Money" and the Sources of Islamic Law -- Chapter 6 "A Bequest May Not Exceed One-Third": An Isnād-cum-Matn Analysis and Beyond -- Chapter 7 Basra and Kufa as the Earliest Centers of Islamic Legal Controversy -- Chapter 8 God's Cleric: Al-Fuḍayl b. ʿIyāḍ and the Transition from Caliphal to Prophetic Sunna -- Chapter 9 Ahmad ibn Tūlūn and the Politics of Deference -- Chapter 10 Eighth-Century Indian Astronomy in the Two Cities of Peace -- Chapter 11 Greek Language and Education under Early Islam -- Chapter 12 Kalām and the Greeks -- Chapter 13 "Arabs" and "Iranians": The Uses of Ethnicity in the Early Abbasid Period -- Chapter 14 The Poetics of Cultural Identity: Al-Mutanabbī among the Būyids -- Chapter 15 Must God Tell Us the Truth? A Problem in Ash'arī Theology -- Chapter 16 Administrators' Time: The Social Memory of the Early Medieval State, East and West -- Chapter 17 An Eleventh-Century Justification of the Authority of Twelver Shiite Jurists -- Chapter 18 A Family Story: Ambiguities of Jewish Identity in Medieval Islam -- Chapter 19 What Happened in al-Andalus: Minorities in al-Andalus and in Christian Spain -- Chapter 20 The Samaritan Version of the Esther Story -- Chapter 21 New Evidence for the Survival of Sexually Libertine Rites among some Nusayrī-'Alawīs of the Nineteenth Century.

Chapter 22 Crone and the End of Orientalism -- Index.

This collected volume brings together a range of articles in honor of Professor Patricia Crone.

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