Islam at 250: Studies in Memory of G.H.A. Juynboll

Islam at 250: Studies in Memory of G.H.A. Juynboll is a collection of original articles on the state of Islamic sciences and Arabic culture in the early phases of their crystallization. It covers a wide range of intellectual activity in the first three centuries of Islam, such as the study of ḥadīth, the Qurʾān, Arabic language and literature, and history. Individually and taken together, the articles provide important new insights and make an important contribution to scholarship on early Islam. The authors, whose work reflects an affinity with Juynboll’s research interests, are all experts in their fields. Pointing to the importance of interdisciplinary approaches and signalling lacunae, their contributions show how scholarship has advanced since Juynboll’s days.

Contributors: Camilla Adang, Monique Bernards, Léon Buskens, Ahmed El Shamsy, Maribel Fierro, Aisha Geissinger, Geert Jan van Gelder, Claude Gilliot, Robert Gleave, Asma Hilali, Michael Lecker, Scott Lucas, Christopher Melchert, Pavel Pavlovitch, Petra M. Sijpesteijn, Roberto Tottoli, and Peter Webb.

Petra Sijpesteijn (PhD, Princeton, 2004) is Professor of Arabic at Leiden University, leading the ERC project ＂Embedding Conquest: Naturalising Muslim Rule in the Early Islamic Empire＂ and author of Shaping a Muslim State: The World of a Mid-Eighth-Century Egyptian Official (OUP, 2013).

Camilla Adang, (PhD, Nijmegen, 1993) is Professor of Islamic Studies at Tel Aviv University. She has published widely on the works of Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba and encounters between Muslims and Jews in the Middle Ages and the Ottoman period.