Culture and Memory in Medieval Islam : Essays in Honor of Wilferd Madelung Book

Introduction—Josef W. Meri
• Bibliography of the Works of Wilferd Madelung—Farhad Daftary
• Part I: The Transmission of Knowledge
• Universities: Past and Present—George Makdisi
• The ijaza from Abd Allah b. Iali al-Samahiji (d. 1135/1722) to Nabir al-Jarudi al-Qanifi (d. 1164/1750-51). A Source for the Twelver Shiite Scholarly Tradition of Ba’rayn—Sabine Schmidtke
• Between Qum and the West: The Occultation according to Early Islamic Sources—Andrew J. Newman
• Memory and Maps Emilie Savage-Smith
• Abu ayyan al-Taw idi: A Sunni Voice in the Shii Century—Wadad al-Qaai
• Part II: Memorializing, Remembering and Forgetting
• Bal’ami’s Account of Early Islamic History—Elton J. Daniel
• Say It Again and Make Me Your Slave: Notes on al-Daylam’s Seventh Sign of Man’s Love of God—Joseph Norment Bell
• Lists, Memory and Enquiry: Ibn Qutayba and Muhammad ibn Habib—Julia Bray
• Wa’iz Kashfi’s ‘Garden of the Martyrs’ and the Subtext to the Portrayal of the Iman Husain in the Shii Martyrdom Narrative of the Late Timurid Period Abbas Amanat
• Part III: Commemorating Rulers, Dynasties and Conquests
• The Legitimation of Power in Samanid and Buyid Iran—Luke Treadwell
• The Beginning of the Ismaili Dawa and the Establishment of the Fanimid Dynasty as Commemorated by al-Qaai al-Numan—Ismail K. Poonawala
• Religious Identity, Dissimulation and Collective Memory: The Ismaili Context—Farhad Daftary
• Purloined Symbols of the Past: The Theft of Souvenirs and Sacred Relics in the Rivalry Between the Abbasids and Fatimids—Paul E. Walker
• Conceptions of Authority and the Transition of Shiism from Sectarian to National Religion in Iran—Said Amir Arjomand
• Umara’s Poetical View of Shawar and Iirgham, Shirkuh and Iala al-Din, as Viziers under Fanimid Guidance—Pieter Smoor