Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography of Professor Michael Allan Cook

The Scholarship of Michael A. Cook: A Retrospective in Progress

Introduction

I. Studies in Early Islamic History

“Time Has Come Full Circle”: Markets, Fairs and the Calendar in Arabia before Islam

The Waṣiyya of Abū Hāshim: The Impact of Polemic in Premodern Muslim Historiography

Building an Egyptian Identity

The Battle of the Ditch (al-Khandaq) of the Cordoban Caliph 'Abd al-Raḥmān III

Dreams of Hagia Sophia: The Muslim Siege of Constantinople in 674 CE, Abū Ayyūb al-Ansạ̄rī, and the Medieval Islamic Imagination

II. Studies in Early Modern and Modern Islamic History

“The Second Ottoman Conquest of Egypt”: Rhetoric and Politics in Seventeenth Century Egyptian Historiography

Ḥabeşī Meḥmed Agha: The First Chief Harem Eunuch (Darüssaade Ağası) of the Ottoman Empire

“I Entered Mecca . . . and I Destroyed All the Tombs”: Some Remarks on Saudi-Ottoman Correspondence

III. Juridical and Intellectual History

The 'Āqila in Ḥanafī Law: Preliminary Notes

Legal Doctrines, Historical Contexts and Moral Visions: The Case of Sectarians in the Courts of Law

The Legal Status of Science in the Muslim World in the Early Modern Period: An Initial Consideration of Fatwās from Three Maghribī Sources

IV. Reinterpretations and Transformations

“I Have Seen the People’s Antipathy to this Knowledge”: The Muslim Exegete and His Audience, 5th/11th–7th/13th Centuries

Lex Mahomethi: Carnal and Spiritual Representations of Islamic Law and Ritual in a Twelfth-Century Dialogue by a Jewish Convert to Christianity

Systematic Growth in Sustained Error: A Case Study in the Dynamism of Post-Classical Islamic Scholasticism

Index