Table of Contents

1. Introduction
1.1 Robert Gleave (University of Exeter), “Studies in Bio-bibliography”,
1.2 Peter Colvin (SOAS), “Paul Auchterlonie: a memoir and a partially annotated bibliography”

Part 1: Texts, Contexts and Transmissions in the Muslim World
2. Ronald Buckley (University of Manchester), "The Works attributed to JaÝfar al-ÑÁdiq"
3. The Creeds of AÎmad b. Íanbal
3.1 Saud Al-Sarhan (University of Exeter) "The Creeds of AÎmad Ibn Íanbal"
3.2 Christopher Melchert (University of Exeter), “A response to Saud Al-Sarhan’s The Creeds of AÎmad Ibn Íanbal”
4. Sajjad Rizvi (University of Exeter), "The literary anthologies of Sayyid NiÝmatullÁh al-JazÁÞirÐ"
5. Ian Netton (University of Exeter), “Majlis Reading in the Golden Age of Islam: Text and Intertext”
6. Lesley Forbes (University of Oxford), “Intellectual gold? Oxford’s Book of Curiosities and its importance for research on the Middle East and Islamic World”
7. Rasheed El-Enany (University of Exeter), “Translations of Naguib Mahfouz in English”

Part 2: Texts, Contexts and Transmissions in the West
8. Derek Hopwood (University of Oxford), “The Lure of the East for European Travellers”
9. Edmund Bosworth (University of Manchester), “Charles Pellat and the Encyclopaedia of Islam: A Personal Reminiscence”
10. Geoffrey Roper (University of Cambridge), “Arabic printing in Scotland: an historical sketch”
11. Arnoud Vrolijk (University of Leiden), “‘The usual Leiden types’. A compositor’s personal account of Brill’s Arabic printing in the late 19th and early 20th century”
12. Sara Yonatan (Bibliothèque nationale de France), “Les collections turques à la Bibliothèque nationale de France”
13. Jan Just Witkam (University of Leiden), “Some Arabic Textbooks from Kerala”
14. Index

About the Author

Robert Gleave is Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Exeter. His most recent book is Violence in Islamic Thought from European Imperialism to the Post-Colonial Era (EUP, 2021), co-authored with Mustafa Baig.