In Defense of the Bible

Biographical note Readership Reviews

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

viii, 224 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Walid A. Saleh, Ph.D. (2001) in Religious Studies, Yale University, is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Toronto. He has published on the history of tafsīr, the Qurʾān and Islamic apocalyptic literature. His book The Formation of the Classical Tafsīr Tradition was published by Brill in 2004.

Readership

This document is of interest to students of Islamic-Jewish and Islamic-Christian interaction as well as those interested in Islamic intellectual history.

Reviews

“The publication of this treatise […] does do what al-Biqāʿī intended it to do: it invites us to begin studying al-Biqāʿī’s remarkable and voluminous commentary, not just as an instance of Muslim appreciation for the Bible, but as an important contribution to the commentarial tradition.”
David Vishanoff, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, 129.2 (2009)

€199.00$277.00

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101

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ISBN13:

9789004211407

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Mālik and Medina

Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf, Nawawi Foundation

This book studies the legal reasoning of Mālik ibn Anas. It emphasizes that the Sunnī schools of law emerged during the formative period as independent legal methodologies.

€136.00$189.00

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100

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ISBN13:

9789004234154

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Al-Māturīdī and the Development of Sunnī Theology in Samarqand

Ulrich Rudolph, University of Zurich, translated by Rodrigo Adem, University of Chicago

In this book Ulrich Rudolph offers an analysis of al-Maturidi's (d. 944 CE) eminent contribution to the formation of Sunni theology.

€96.00$133.00

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ISBN13:

9789004230668

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The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period

Suleiman A. Mourad, Smith College and James E. Lindsay, Colorado State University

The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology provides an account of the preaching of a revitalized vision of jihad in Crusader-era Syria by Sunni scholars, including Ibn ʿAsākir, as a major propaganda tool of the Counter-Crusade and Sunni revival.

€203.00$282.00

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ISBN13:

9789004233614

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The Comfort of the Mystics

Gerhard Böwering, Yale University and Bilal Orfali, American University of Beirut

This work is a critical Arabic text edition of Salwat al-ʿārifīn wa-uns al-mushtāqīn, a manual of early Sufism by Abū Khalaf al-Ṭabarī (d. ca. 470/1077). It is an integral part of Sufi literature and reflects Islamic developments in Nishapur in northeastern Iran.

€107.00$149.00

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ISBN13:

9789004234178

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Through the Eyes of the Beholder

Edited by Judy A. Hayden, University of Tampa and Nabil I. Matar, University of Minnesota

The collection is the first to bring together a number of accounts about the Holy Land written by early modern authors from different religious and regional backgrounds.

€101.00$140.00

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ISBN13:

9789004221505

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Herbal Medicine in Yemen

Edited by Ingrid Hehmeyer, Ryerson University, and Hanne Schönig, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, with the collaboration of Anne Regourd, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Traditional medicine in Yemen is largely plant-based. Fourteen scholars represent both humanities and natural sciences in studying herbal medicines and their multifaceted applications within traditional Yemeni society. Approaches are based on textual analysis, empirical research and laboratory ...

€168.00$234.00

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9789004218857

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The Lineaments of Islam

Edited by Paul M. Cobb, University of Pennsylvania

In honor of Fred M. Donner's distinguished career as an interpreter of early Islam, this volume collects more than a dozen studies by his students. They range over a wide array of sub-fields in Islamic studies, including Islamic history, historiography, Islamic law, Qur'anic studies and ...

€143.00$196.00

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ISBN13:

9789004216778

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Sufism, Black and White

Edited by Bilal Orfali, American University of Beirut and Nada Saab, Lebanese American University

This work is a critical Arabic text edition of K. al-Bayāḍ wa-l-sawād min khaṣāʾiṣ ḥikam al-ʿibād fī naʿt al-murīd wa-l-murād, a substantial Sufi handbook of early Sufism by Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan al-Sīrjānī (d. ca. 470/1077).

€99.00$136.00

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9789004210455

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Available: In Print

The Performing Arts in Medieval Islam

Li Guo, University of Notre Dame

Drawing on medieval Arabic sources and earlier scholarship, this book is a study of the life and work of Ibn Dāniyāl (d. 1310). It also presents the first full English translation of his shadow play "The Phantom.”

€155.00$212.00

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9789004211414

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Intimate Invocations

Samer Akkach, University of Adelaide

For the first time al-Ghazzī’s authoritative biography of ‘Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī, al-Wird al-Unsī, is being presented in this critical edition along with new critical reviews of al-Nābulusī’s large body of works and of modern literature on him.