Introduction
David Hollenberg, Christoph Rauch, Sabine Schmidtke
List of contributors
Was the Ṣanʿāʾ Qurʾān Palimpsest a Work in Progress?
Asma Hilali
Yūsuf al-Baṣīr’s Rebuttal of Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī in a Yemeni
Zaydī Manuscript of the 7th/13th Century
Hassan Ansari, Wilferd Madelung and Sabine Schmidtke
MS Berlin, State Library, Glaser 51: A Unique Manuscript From the
Early 7th/13th-Century Bahšamite Milieu in Yemen
Hassan Ansari and Jan Thiele
The Pearl and the Ruby: Scribal Dicta and Other Metatextual Notes
in Yemeni Mediaeval Manuscripts
Arianna D’Ottone
The Literary-Religious Tradition Among 7th/13th-Century Yemenī
Zaydīs (II): The Case of ʿAbd Allāh b. Zayd al-ʿAnsī (d.
667/1269)
Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke
MS Munich, Bavarian State Library, Cod. arab. 1294: A Guide to
Zaydī Kalām-Studies During the Ṭāhirid and Early Qāsimite Periods
(mid-15th—early 18th centuries)
Gregor Schwarb
Zaydī Scholars on the Move: A Multitext Manuscript by Yaḥyā Ibn
Ḥumayd al-Miqrāʾī (b. 908/1503, d. 990/1582) and Other Contemporary
Sources
Christoph Rauch
Papiers filigranés de manuscrits de Zabid, premier tiers du
XVIIIe-milieu du XXe siècle: papiers importés et «locaux»
Anne Regourd
Ṣanʿāʾ, Jerusalem, New York: Imām Yaḥyā Ḥamīd al-Dīn (1869-1948)
and Yemeni-Jewish Migration from Palestine to the United States
Menashe Anzi and Kerstin Hünefeld
Index of Names
Index of Places
Index of Books
David Hollenberg (PhD University of Pennsylvania) is Assistant
Professor of Arabic and Religious Studies at the University of
Oregon. His recent publications include "The Empire Writes Back:
Fāṭimid-Ismāʿīlī Taʾwīl (allegoresis) and the Mysteries of the
Ancient Greeks” (in The Study of Shi'i Islam: The State of the
Field, Issues of Methodology and Recent Developments, ed. F.
Daftary and G. Miskinzoda, London, Tauris, 2014), and Neoplatonism
in Early Fatimid Doctrine: A Critical Edition and Translation of
the Prologue of the Kitāb al-fatarāt wa-l-qirānāt (The Book of
Periods and Conjunctions) (Le Muséon 2010). He is the director of
the Yemeni Manuscripts Digitization initiative, a scholarly
collective devoted to preserving the manuscripts of Yemen.
Christoph Rauch is Director of the Oriental Department of the
Berlin State Library. He studied Arabic and religion at the
University of Leipzig. His research interests cover Islam,
manuscripts in Yemen, and the history of Oriental collections in
the Western world.
Sabine Schmidtke (D.Phil. University of Oxford) is Professor of
Islamic Intellectual History at the Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton. She has published extensively on Islamic and Jewish
intellectual history. Her works include Theologie, Philosophie und
Mystik im zwölferschiitischen Islam des 9./15. Jahrhunderts. Die
Gedankenwelt des Ibn Abī Jumhūr al-Aḥsāʾī (um 838/1434-35 - nach
906/1501) (Leiden 2000), and, together with Reza Pourjavady, A
Jewish Philosopher of Baghdad. ʿIzz al-Dawla Ibn Kammūna and his
Writings (Leiden 2006).
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