The Islamic Scholarly Tradition Islamic History and Civilization Studies and Texts Editorial Board Sebastian Günther Wadad Kadi VOLUME 83 Michael Cook, 1976 Michael Cook, 2010 The Islamic Scholarly Tradition Studies in History, Law, and Thought in Honor of Professor Michael Allan Cook Edited by Asad Q. Ahmed Behnam Sadeghi and Michael Bonner LEIDEN • BOSTON 2011 Cover illustration: Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris: Ms Arabe 6094, folio 167: al-Maqāmāt, maqāma 46: « Abû Zayd enseignant ». Reproduced with permission. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Islamic scholarly tradition studies in history, law, and thought in honor of Professor Michael Allan Cook / edited by Asad Q. Ahmed, Behnam Sadeghi, and Michael Bonner. p. cm. — (Islamic history and civilization. Studies and texts, ISSN 0929-2403 ; v. 83) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-19435-9 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Islam—History. 2. Islamic law. 3. Islamic civilization. I. Cook, M. A. II. Ahmed, Asad Q. III. Sadeghi, Behnam, 1969– IV. Bonner, Michael. V. Title. VI. Series. BP53.I745 2011 297.09—dc22 2010051433 ISSN 0929–2403 ISBN 978 90 04 19435 9 Copyright 2011 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. CONTENTS Acknowledgements ............................................................................ ix Notes on Contributors ...................................................................... xi Bibliography of Professor Michael A. Cook ................................. xvii The Scholarship of Michael A. Cook: A Retrospective in Progress ........................................................................................... xxi Preface by R. Stephen Humphreys Introduction ........................................................................................ 1 Michael Bonner I. STUDIES IN EARLY ISLAMIC HISTORY “Time Has Come Full Circle”: Markets, Fairs and the Calendar in Arabia before Islam ................................................ 15 Michael Bonner The Wasịyya of Abū Hāshim: The Impact of Polemic in Premodern Muslim Historiography ........................................... 49 Najam Haider Building an Egyptian Identity ......................................................... 85 Petra M. Sijpesteijn The Battle of the Ditch (al-Khandaq) of the Cordoban Caliph ʿAbd al-Raḥmān III ....................................................................... 107 Maribel Fierro Dreams of Hagia Sophia: The Muslim Siege of Constantinople in 674 CE, Abū Ayyūb al-Ansạ̄ rī, and the Medieval Islamic Imagination .................................................................................... 131 Nancy Khalek vi contents II. STUDIES IN EARLY MODERN AND MODERN ISLAMIC HISTORY “The Second Ottoman Conquest of Egypt”: Rhetoric and Politics in Seventeenth Century Egyptian Historiography .... 149 Adam Sabra Ḥabeşī Meḥmed Agha: The First Chief Harem Eunuch (Darüssaade Ağası) of the Ottoman Empire ............................ 179 Jane Hathaway “I Entered Mecca . . . and I Destroyed All the Tombs”: Some Remarks on Saudi-Ottoman Correspondence .............. 197 Samer Traboulsi III. JURIDICAL AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORY The ʿĀqila in Ḥanafī Law: Preliminary Notes .............................. 221 Nurit Tsafrir Legal Doctrines, Historical Contexts, and Moral Visions: The Case of Sectarians in the Courts of Law ........................... 239 Nimrod Hurvitz The Legal Status of Science in the Muslim World in the Early Modern Period: An Initial Consideration of Fatwās from Three Maghribī Sources ..................................................... 265 Justin Stearns 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 ................................................................................ 293 Karen Bauer contents vii Lex Mahomethi: Carnal and Spiritual Representations of Islamic Law and Ritual in a Twelfth-Century Dialogue by a Jewish Convert to Christianity .................................................... 315 Leor Halevi Systematic Growth in Sustained Error: A Case Study in the Dynamism of Post-Classical Islamic Scholasticism ................. 343 Asad Q. Ahmed Index .................................................................................................... 379