Der islam journal of the history anD culture of the miDDle east - De Gruyter

2021 · volume 98 · issue 2

Der Islam
journal of the history
and culture of the middle east

founded by                           ADVISORY board
Carl Heinrich Becker                 Frédéric Bauden, Liège
                                     Thomas Bauer, Münster
Editor in Chief                      Michael Cook, Princeton (NJ)
Stefan Heidemann, Hamburg            Suraiya Faroqhi, Istanbul
                                     Maribel Fierro, Madrid
Editors                              Nelly Hanna, Cairo
Gottfried Hagen, Ann Arbor (MI)      Benjamin Jokisch, Hamburg
Andreas Kaplony, München             Benjamin Kedar, Jerusalem
Rudi Matthee, Newark (DE)            Geoffrey Khan, Cambridge
Kristina Richardson, New York (NY)   Alastair Northedge, Paris
                                     Jürgen Paul, Halle a.d. Saale
editorial Manager
and review editor                    Christian Robin, Paris
Amke Dietert, Hamburg                Mansour Sefatgol, Tehran
                                     Florian Schwarz,Wien
                                     Maya Shatzmiller, London (ON)

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Contents

Articles

Zishan Ghaffar
Kontrafaktische Intertextualität im Koran und die exegetische Tradition des
syrischen Christentums      313

Ala Vahidnia
Whence Come Qurʾān Manuscripts? Determining the Regional Provenance of
Early Qurʾānic Codices 359

Majid Daneshgar
The Prophet Shaving: Persians and the Origin of the Malay Hikayat Nabi
Bercukur     394

Ehsan Roohi
Between History and Ancestral Lore:
A Literary Approach to the Sīra’s Narratives of Political Assassinations      425

Benedikt Reier
Bibliophilia in Ottoman Aleppo: Muḥammad al-Taqawī and his Medical
Library     473

Boğaç Ergene, Atabey Kaygun
The Textual Evolution of the Ottoman Şeyhülislams’ Fetvas: A Cross-Corpora
Computational Analysis       516

Reviews

Ursula Bsees et. al
Annotated Bibliography “Arabic Papyrology, Archives, and Times of Change in
the Mediterranean and the Islamicate World”     546

Ahmad Khan
Arezou Azad, Sacred Landscape in Medieval Afghanistan:
Revisiting the Faḍāʾil-i Balkh 570

Der Islam      2021 | Volume 98 | Issue 2

Jürgen Paul
Michal Biran, Jonathan Brack, and Francesca Fiaschetti (eds.), Along the Silk
Roads in Mongol Eurasia. Generals, Merchants, and Intellectuals       572

Aurélien Montel
David Bramoullé, Les Fatimides et la mer (909‒1171)       575

Mouez Khalfaoui
Omar Farahat, The Foundation of Norms in Islamic Jurisprudence and
Theology     579

Herbert Eisenstein
Lourus S. Filius, The Arabic Version of Aristotle’s Historia Animalium   584

Marco Salati
Omid Ghaemmaghami, Encounters with the Hidden Imam in Early
and Pre-Modern Twelver Shīʿī Islam 586

Sebastian Bitsch
Zishan Ghaffar, Der Koran in seinem religions- und weltgeschichtlichen
Kontext     591

Sajjad Rizvi
Denis Hermann, Le Shaykhisme à la période qajare. Histoire sociale et
doctrinale d’une école chiite 598

Boris Liebrenz
Konrad Hirschler, A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture. The Library of
Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī    603

Paula Manstetten
Steven Judd and Jens Scheiner, eds., New Perspectives on Ibn ʿAsākir in Islamic
Historiography     608

Cecilia Palombo
Andreas Kaplony and Michael Marx, Qurʾān Quotations Preserved on ­Papyrus
Documents, 7th–10th Centuries    613

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Christopher D. Bahl
Ebba Koch, ed., in collaboration with Ali Anooshahr, The Mughal Empire
from Jahangir to Shah Jahan      618

Gowaart Van Den Bossche
Hans-Ulrich Kühn, Sultan Baibars und seine Söhne: Frühmamkūkische
Herrschaftssicherung in ayyūbidischer Tradition    621

Yehoshua Frenkel
Y. Tzvi Langermann (trans.), Subtle Insights Concerning Knowledge and
­Practice: Kalimāt wajīza mushtamila ʿalā nukat laṭīfa fī al-ʿilm wa-l-ʿamal by
 Saʿd ibn Mansur Ibn Kammūna al-Baghdādī         626

Michael Lecker
Georg Leube, Kinda in der frühislamischen Geschichte. Eine prosopographische
Studie auf Basis der frühen und klassischen arabisch-islamischen
Geschichtsschreibung       628

Ellen Kenney
Marcus Milwright, The Arts and Crafts of Syria and Egypt from the Ayyubids to
World War I: Collected Essays    630

Cyrille Aillet
Abdulrahman al-Salimi, ed., Early Islamic Law in Basra in the 2nd/8th Century:
Aqwāl Qatāda b. Diʿāma al-Sadūsī      633

Reinhard Weipert
Gregor Schoeler, Arabische Handschriften. Teil 14: Arabische Foliobände der
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz     635

Cornelius Berthold
Lambertus Willem Cornelis Van Lit (O.P.), Among Digitized Manuscripts.
Philology, Codicology, Palaeography in a Digital World    636

Avner Giladi
Sara Verskin, Barren Women: Religion and Medicine in the Medieval Middle
East     641