AL-‘USUR AL-WUSTA, VOLUME 25 (2017)
Front Matter
Letter from the Editors
MEM AWARDS
Remarks by Fred M. Donner, Recipient of the 2016 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award
ARTICLES
Important New Developments in Arabographic Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Benjamin Kiessling, Matthew Thomas Miller, Maxim G. Romanov, & Sarah Bowen Savant
The Numismatic Evidence for the Reign of Aḥmad b. Ṭūlūn (254–270/868–883)
Luke Treadwell
The Abbasid “Golden Age”: An Excavation
Michael Cooperson
Conflict and Community in the Medieval Caucasus
Alison M. Vacca
Reflections on the Identity of the Arabian Conquerors of the Seventh-Century Middle East
Robert G. Hoyland
CONFERENCE REPORTS
Spatial Thought in Islamicate Societies, 1000–1600: The Politics of Genre, Image, and Text (Tübingen, 30 March to 1 April 2017)
Zayde Antrim, Jean-Charles Ducène, and Kurt Franz
New Insights into Early Islamic Historiography: A Substantial Conference Report (Göttingen, June 25–26, 2015)
Yoones Dehghani Farsani and Jens Scheiner
BOOK REVIEWS
Peter Webb, Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam
Philip Wood
Joshua Mabra, Princely Authority in the Early Marwānid State: The Life of ‘Abd al-‘Azīz ibn Marwān (d. 86/705)
Matthew S. Gordon
Lyall Armstrong, The Quṣṣāṣ of Early Islam
Pamela Klasova
Christophe Picard, La Mer des Califes: Une histoire de la Méditerranée musulmane
Matthew S. Gordon
Chase Robinson, Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives: The First 1,000 Years
Brian Ulrich
Mona Hassan, Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History
Sabahat F. Adil
Abolfazl Khatibi, Āyā Firdawsī Maḥmūd-i Ghaznavī rā hajv guft? Hajv’nāmah-i mansūb bih Firdawsī: Bar’rasī-yi taḥlīlī, taṣḥīḥ-i intiqādī, va sharḥ-i bayt’hā [Did Ferdowsi Satirize Mahmud of Ghazni? The Satire Attributed to Ferdowsi: Analysis, Textual Criticism, and Commentary]
Theodore S. Beers
Thomas Würtz, Islamische Theologie im 14. Jahrhundert. Auferstehungslehre, Handlungstheorie und Schöpfungsvorstellungen im Werk von Sa‘d ad-Dīn at-Taftāzānī
Christian Mauder
IN MEMORIAM
Anna Dolinina (1923–2017)
Marina Tolmacheva
Günter Lüling (1928–2014)
Fred M. Donner
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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