Contents

Preface

Patricia Crone: A Brief Memoir

Tabula Gratulatoria

Curriculum Vitae of Patricia Crone

List of Contributors

Chapter 1 Variant Traditions, Relative Chronology, and the Study of Intra-Quranic Parallels

Chapter 2 The Earliest Attestation of the Dhimma of God and His Messenger and the Rediscovery of P. Nessana 77 (60s AH/680 CE)

Chapter 3 Jewish Christianity and Islamic Origins

Chapter 4 A Note on the Relationship between Tafsīr and Common Understanding with Reference to Contracts of Marriage

Chapter 5 “Earnest Money” and the Sources of Islamic Law

Chapter 6 “A Bequest May Not Exceed One-Third”: An Isnād-cum-Matn Analysis and Beyond

Chapter 7 Basra and Kufa as the Earliest Centers of Islamic Legal Controversy

Chapter 8 God’s Cleric: Al-Fuḍayl b. ʿIyāḍ and the Transition from Caliphal to Prophetic Sunna

Chapter 9 Ahmad ibn Tūlūn and the Politics of Deference

Chapter 10 Eighth-Century Indian Astronomy in the Two Cities of Peace

Chapter 11 Greek Language and Education under Early Islam

Chapter 12 Kalām and the Greeks

Chapter 13 “Arabs” and “Iranians”: The Uses of Ethnicity in the Early Abbasid Period

Chapter 14 The Poetics of Cultural Identity: Al-Mutanabbī among the Būyids

Chapter 15 Must God Tell Us the Truth? A Problem in Ash'arī Theology

Chapter 16 Administrators’ Time: The Social Memory of the Early Medieval State, East and West

Chapter 17 An Eleventh-Century Justification of the Authority of Twelver Shiite Jurists

Chapter 18 A Family Story: Ambiguities of Jewish Identity in Medieval Islam

Chapter 19 What Happened in al-Andalus: Minorities in al-Andalus and in Christian Spain

Chapter 20 The Samaritan Version of the Esther Story

Chapter 21 New Evidence for the Survival of Sexually Libertine Rites among some Nusayrī-'Alawīs of the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 22 Crone and the End of Orientalism

Index