Essays in Islamic Philology, History, and Philosophy.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Tabula Gratulatoria -- Selected Bibliography of Professor Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani -- Part I: Classical Persian Literature and Philology -- Moving toward the Modern: The Nationalist Imagery of Malik al‑Shu'arā Bahār -- Old Iranian Motifs in Vīs o Rāmīn -- Astronomical Poems from the "Four Corners" of Persia (c. 1000-1500 CE) -- Part II: Classical Arabic Literature and Philology -- Moving from Persian to Arabic -- The Iconic Sībawayh -- Naming Shuʿūbīs -- Part III: Islamic Theology, Islamic Jurisprudence and Islamic Philosophy -- Prioritizing Metaphysics over Epistemology: Divine Justice ('Adl) and Human Reason ('Aql) in al-Shaykh al-Mufīd's Theology -- Returning to God through His Names: Cosmology and Dhikr in a Fourteenth-Century Sufi Treatise -- Friendship in Islamic Ethical Philosophy -- The Poetic Syllogism: Foray into an Inductive Research Proposal -- The Scattered and the Gathered: Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī's Infrequently Asked Questions -- 'Aql (Reason) in Modern Shiite Thought: The Example of Muḥammad Jawād Maghniyya (1904-79) -- Ṭūsī Did Not "Opt Out": Shiite Jurisprudence and the Solidification of the Stoning Punishment in the Islamic Legal Tradition -- ʿAlī's Contemplations on this World and the Hereafter in the Context of His Life and Times -- Part IV: Islamic History and Historiography -- Al-ʿAṭṭāf b. Sufyān and Abbasid Imperialism -- An Early Arabic Conversion Story: The Case of al-Faḍl b. Sahl -- A Translation of the Prolegomena to Żiyāʾ al-Dīn Baranī's Tārīkh-i Fīrūzshāhī -- Index of Names -- Index of Geographical Places.

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