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| Document Type: | Book |
| Title: | Islamic reflections, Arabic musings :studies in honour of Professor Alan Jones / edited by Robert G. Hoyland and Philip F. Kennedy |
| Added Author: | Hoyland, Robert G. |
| Publisher: | [Cambridge] : Gibb Memorial Trust, c2004. |
| Pages: | 300 p. ; ill. |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 090609450X |
| Notes: | cThe E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Trust and individual authors, 2004. |
| Bibliographic Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents: | Of models and amanuenses : the remarks on the Qasida in Ibn Qutayba's Kitab al-Shi'r wa-l-shu'ara' / James E. Montgomery -- Playing for time : maysir-gambling in early Arabic poetry / Nadia Jamil -- Recognition and metonymy in early Isama'ili memoirs : the case of Ibn Hawshab 'Mansur a;-Yaman' / Philip F. Kennedy -- The Mu'allaqat in the West : a brief bibliographical survey / Heather Bleaney -- Theomnestus of Nicopolis, Hunayn ibn Ishaq, and the beginnings of Islamic veterinary science / Robert G. Hoyland -- Verbs and voices / Julia Bray -- Historians and the Arabic biographical dictionary : some new approaches / Paul Auchterlonie -- The Qur'an as a source of law : the case of zakat (alms-tax) / Yasin Dutton -- Ghirbib ibn 'Abd Allah al-thaqafi and the beginnings of linguistic and ethnic accommodation to Arab Islam in al-Andalus / David Wasserstein -- On the difficulty of knowing mediaeval Arab authors : the case of Abu l-Faraj and pseudo-Isfahani / Hilary Kilpatrick -- The boys from Mezzoiuso : Muslim jizya |
| Author as Subject: | Jones, Alan, 1933-Mahfuz, Najib, 1911-2006Ibn Qutayba, 828-829 |
| Descriptors: | Poetry, Ancient Mu'allaqat |
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