Culture and Memory in Medieval Islam: Essays in Honour of Wilfred Madelung

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