AL-‘USUR AL-WUSTA, VOLUME 26 (2018)
Front Matter
Table of Contents
Letter from the Editors
MEM AWARDS
Remarks by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, Recipient of the 2017 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award
ARTICLES
Mecca and Macoraba
Ian D. Morris
Thematic Dossier: Formulating the Caliphate in the Islamic West: Umayyads, Ḥammūdids, and Almohads
Guest edited by Maribel Fierro and Patrice Cressier
Introduction
Maribel Fierro and Patrice Cressier
Writing for the Caliphate: The Unique Necklace by Ibn ‘Abd Rabbih
Isabel Toral-Niehoff
Facing the Mahdī’s True Belief: Abū ‘Amr al-Salālijī’s Ash‘arite Creed and the Almohads’ Claim to Religious Authority
Jan Thiele
The Jihād of the Caliphs and the First Battles of Islam: Memory, Legitimization and Holy War, from Cordoba to Tinmal
Javier Albarrán
Preparing the Almohad Caliphate: The Almoravids
Pascal Buresi
The Ḥammūdid Caliphate: A New Look Through the Lens of Numismatics
Almudena Ariza Armada
NOTES AND BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS
Early Arabo-Islamic Epigraphy and the Positivist Fallacy: A Brief Communication
Sean W. Anthony
CONFERENCE REPORTS
Navigating Language in the Early Islamic World (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 6–7 April 2018)
Alison M. Vacca
Post-Eurocentric Poetics: New Approaches from Arabic, Turkish and Persian Literature (Beirut, 21 May 2018)
Helga Seeden
Approaches to the Study of Pre-Modern Arabic Anthologies (Beirut, 10–12 May 2018)
Louise Gallorini
BOOK REVIEWS
Muriel Debié, L’écriture de l’histoire en syriaque. Transmissions interculturelles et constructions identitaires entre hellénisme et islam
Peter Brown
Abū Isḥāq al-Ṣābi’, Dīwān Rasā’il al-Ṣābī’ (Edited by Iḥsān Dhannūn al-Thāmirī)
Maurice A. Pomerantz
Lena Salaymeh, The Beginnings of Islamic Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions
Christopher Melchert
Sabine Schmidtke, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology
John Renard
Diego R. Sarrio Cucarella, Muslim-Christian Polemics across the Mediterranean: The Splendid Replies of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qarāfī (d. 684/1285)
Uri Shachar
Michael Brett, The Fatimid Empire
Paul E. Walker
Matthew S. Gordon and Kathryn Hain, eds., Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History
Kecia Ali
Vanessa Van Renterghem, Les élites bagdadiennes au temps des Seldjoukides. Étude d’histoire sociale
David Durand-Guédy
IN MEMORIAM
Ehsan Yarshater (1920–2018)
Elton L. Daniel