Daftary, Farhad and Meri, Josef W. creator text London I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. 2003 monographic 464 1. Introduction: Josef W. Meri 2. Bibliography of the Works of Wilfred Madelung Part 1 The Transmission of Knowledge 3. Universities: Past and Present: George Makdisi 4. The ijaza from 'Abd Allah b. Salih al-samahiji to Nasir al-Jarudi al-Qatifi: A Source for the Twelver Shi'i Scholarly Tradition of Bahrayn: Sabine Schmidtke 5. Abu Husayn al-Basri on God's Volition: Martin J. McDermott 6. between Qumm and the West: The Occultation According to al-kulayni and al-katib al-Nu'mani: Andrew J. Newman 7. Memory and Maps: Emilie Savage-Smith 8. Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi: A Sunni Voice in the Shi'i Century: Wadad al-Qadi Part 2 Memorializing: Remembering and Forgetting 9. Bal'ami's Account of Early Islamic History: Elton L. Daniel 10. 'Say It Again And Make Me Your Slave': Notes on al-Daylami's Seventh Sign of Man's Love for God: Joseph Norment Bell 11. Lists and Memory: Ibn Qutayba and Muhammad b. Habib: Julia Bray 12. A Jonah Theme in the Biography of Ibn Tumart: David J. Wasserstein 13. Meadow of the Martyrs: Kashif's Persianization of the Shi'i Martyrdom Narrative in the Late Timurid Herat: Abbas Amanat Part 3 Commemorating Rulers, Dynasties and Conquests 14. Khurasani Revolutionaries and al-Mahdi's Title: Michael L. Bates 15. Shahansha and al-Malik al-Mu'ayyad: The Legitimation of Power in Samanid and Buyid Iran: Luke Treadwell 16. The Beginning of the Ismaili Da'wa and the Establishment of the Fatimid Dynasty as Commemorated by al-Qadi al-Nu'man: Ismail K. Poonawala 17. Purloined Symbols of the Past: The Theft of Souvenirs and Sacred Relics in the Rivalry between Abbasids and Fatimids: Paul E. Walker 18. Conceptions of Authority and the Transition of Shi'ism from Sectarian to National Religion in Iran: Said Amir Arjomand 19. 'Umara's Poetical Views of Shawar, idrgham, Shirkuh and Salah al-Din as Viziers of the Fatimid Caliphs: Pieter Smoor Islam History-Medieval 297.09 DAF 1860648592 HB