Bibliogr. des oeuvres de Hugh N. Kennedy. Notes bibliogr. Index

Preliminary Material / Maaike van Berkel and Letizia Osti -- Copyright Page / Maaike van Berkel and Letizia Osti -- Notes on Contributors / Maaike van Berkel and Letizia Osti -- Tabula Gratulatoria / Maaike van Berkel and Letizia Osti -- A Lifelong Passion for Islamic History / Maaike van Berkel and Letizia Osti -- Bibliography of Hugh N. Kennedy / Maaike van Berkel and Letizia Osti -- Chapter 1 A Ḥimyarite Restorationist Prophecy / Michael Cook -- Chapter 2 Kinship, Dynasty, and the Umayyads / Andrew Marsham -- Chapter 3 He Reigned as Caliph; Then He Died: The Reigns of Caliphs Versified / Geert Jan van Gelder -- Chapter 4 Versifying History in Abbasid Iraq: The Universal History of ʻAlī b. al-Jahm / Harry Munt -- Chapter 5 How to Found an Islamic State: The Idrisids as Rivals to the Abbasid Caliphate in the Far Islamic West / Corisande Fenwick -- Chapter 6 Rethinking "the Mamlūk State" with Ibn Khaldūn: "Mamlukization, " ʻaṣabiyya , and Historiographical Imaginations of the Sultanate of Cairo (1200s-1500s) / Jo Van Steenbergen -- Chapter 7 Ibn Khaldūn and the Ḥafṣid Caliphate / Allen Fromherz -- Chapter 8 A Three-Centered System: Aleppo, Damascus, and Cairo in the Age of the Ayyubids / R. Stephen Humphreys -- Chapter 9 Informal and Formal Trading Associations in Egypt and Ifrīqiya, 850-1150 / Chris Wickham -- Chapter 10 Good Governance in Theory and Practice: Comparing Abū Yūsuf's Kitāb al-Kharāj with Papyri / Petra M. Sijpesteijn -- Chapter 11 A Matter of Trust: On Some Principles of Governance in the Letters of Qurra b. Sharīk / Arietta Papaconstantinou -- Chapter 12 Calculating the Population of Samarra / Alastair Northedge -- Chapter 13 Flour for the Caliph: Watermills in the "Land behind Mosul" / Cristina Tonghini -- Chapter 14 Bedouin, Bandits, and Caliphal Disappearance: A Reappraisal of the Qarāmiṭa and Their Success in Arabia / Peter Webb -- Chapter 15 Zinā and muḥṣanāt in the Quran / Richard Kimber -- Chapter 16 Muslim Nostalgia: Longing for the Abbasid Past in the Mamluk Era / Robert Irwin -- Chapter 17 The al-Mustanṣiriyya madrasa in Baghdad and Its founder, al-Mustanṣir / Carole Hillenbrand -- Chapter 18 Hārūn al-Rashīd in Premodern Arabic Literary Imaginary: Ideology of Monogamy, Harem Politics, and Court Intrigues / Wen-chin Ouyang -- Chapter 19 The Representation of the Barmakids in Bodleian Manuscript Ouseley 217 and Other Monographs / Arezou Azad and Pejman Firoozbakhsh -- Chapter 20 Eutychius of Alexandria Vindicated: Muslim Sources and Christian Arabic Historiography in the Early Islamic Empire / Robert Hoyland -- Chapter 21 Bureaucrats on the Move: Messengers in Fourth/Tenth-Century Iraq / Maaike van Berkel , Nadia Maria El Cheikh , and Letizia Osti -- Chapter 22 Al-Ṭabarī's Unacknowledged Debt to Ibn Abī Ṭāhir Ṭayfūr / Sarah Bowen Savant -- Chapter 23 Heraqleh: A New Interpretation / Andrew Petersen -- Chapter 24 The Interface between Byzantium and the Ilkhanids in Fourteenth-Century Book Painting / Robert Hillenbrand -- Chapter 25 Exploring Europe through Medieval Islamic Folk Literature / Niall Christie -- Chapter 26 The Lordship and Bishopric of Banyas in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (1126-1164) / Alan V. Murray -- Chapter 27 Fortresses and Frontiers: Castles and Northern Syria in the Sultanate of Cairo / Angus D. Stewart -- Chapter 28 The Sasanian Fort of Pānkān / Balázs Major -- Chapter 29 Negotiating the North: Armenian Perspectives on the Conquest Era / Tim Greenwood -- Chapter 30 New Palaeoenvironmental Evidence on the Possible Impact on Agriculture of Early Arab-Islamic Raiding Activity on Crete / John Haldon -- Index / Maaike van Berkel and Letizia Osti

"The Historian of Islam at Work is a volume in honor of Hugh N. Kennedy. It offers thirty contributions by three generations of prominent scholars in the field of pre-modern Middle Eastern studies, covering the many areas of Islamic historical inquiry in which Hugh Kennedy has been active throughout his career. Grouped around four major themes - Caliphate and power, economy and society, Abbasids, and frontiers and the others - the contributions deal with the history, archaeology, architecture and literature of the Middle East, North Africa and beyond, from the time of the Prophet until the fifteenth century"