Culture and Memory in Medieval Islam

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Introduction--Josef W. Meri Bibliography of the Works of Wilferd Madelung--Farhad Daftary Part I: The Transmission of Knowledge Universities: Past and Present--George Makdisi The ijaza from Abd Allah b. Iali al-Samahiji (d. 1135/1722) to Nabir al-Jarudi al-Qanifi (d. 1164/1750-51). A Source for the Twelver Shiite Scholarly Tradition of Ba'rayn--Sabine Schmidtke Between Qum and the West: The Occultation according to Early Islamic Sources--Andrew J. Newman Memory and Maps Emilie Savage-Smith Abu ayyan al-Taw idi: A Sunni Voice in the Shii Century--Wadad al-Qaai Part II: Memorializing, Remembering and Forgetting Bal'ami's Account of Early Islamic History--Elton J. Daniel Say It Again and Make Me Your Slave: Notes on al-Daylam's Seventh Sign of Man's Love of God--Joseph Norment Bell Lists, Memory and Enquiry: Ibn Qutayba and Muhammad ibn Habib--Julia Bray Wa'iz Kashfi's 'Garden of the Martyrs' and the Subtext to the Portrayal of the Iman Husain in the Shii Martyrdom Narrative of the Late Timurid Period Abbas Amanat Part III: Commemorating Rulers, Dynasties and Conquests The Legitimation of Power in Samanid and Buyid Iran--Luke Treadwell The Beginning of the Ismaili Dawa and the Establishment of the Fanimid Dynasty as Commemorated by al-Qaai al-Numan--Ismail K. Poonawala Religious Identity, Dissimulation and Collective Memory: The Ismaili Context--Farhad Daftary Purloined Symbols of the Past: The Theft of Souvenirs and Sacred Relics in the Rivalry Between the Abbasids and Fatimids--Paul E. Walker Conceptions of Authority and the Transition of Shiism from Sectarian to National Religion in Iran--Said Amir Arjomand Umara's Poetical View of Shawar and Iirgham, Shirkuh and Iala al-Din, as Viziers under Fanimid Guidance--Pieter Smoor. (Source: Google Books API)