Dept of Near Eastern Studies Dr.

Scott Lucas Spring 2010 NES 696I: Advanced Islamic Studies General Description: The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers. This course prepares students to engage the classical Arabic sources in the core Islamic disciplines of Quranic commentaries, Hadith literature, Islamic law, and Sufism. Prerequisite: Advanced Arabic, unless by permission of the instructor Grades: Class presentations: 30%; Research paper: 70%. Students will make at least 5 class presentations of specific books on the syllabus during the semester. They must provide information about the books author, contents, arrangement, and utility for researchers. A sample passage will be read and distributed in class. Each presentation will receive a letter grade of A, B, C, D, or E. The research paper will receive a letter grade of A, B, C, D, or E. The topic must be approved by the instructor. The final grade will be awarded according to the following scale: A = 90-100% B = 80-89% C = 70-79% D = 60-69% E = 0-59% Syllabus Required book: Khalidi, Tarif, Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period (1994). PART I: Getting Started Week 1: Basic Tools Transliteration Encyclopaedia of Islam (EI2) Encyclopaedia Iranica Encyclopedia of the Quran (ed. Jane McAuliffe) Fuat Sezgin, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums (GAS) = Tarikh al-turath al-arabi

2 Carl Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (GAL) Al-Nadim, Kitab al-Fihrist li-l-Nadim (ed. Reza Tajaddod) Umar Rida Kahhala, Mujam al-muallifin Hajji Khalifa (Katip elebi), Kashf al-zunun an asami al-kutub wa al-funun Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi, al-Mujam al-mufahras li-alfaz al-Quran al-karim A.J. Wensinck, Concordance et Indices de la Tradition Musulmane www.islamport.com W. Wright, Arabic Grammar (revised 3rd edition) Week 2: Biographical Dictionaries and Historical Works Tarif Khalidi, Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period (1994) Wadad al-Qadi, Biographical Dictionaries: Inner Structure and Cultural Significance, in George Atiyeh, The Book in the Islamic World (1995): 93-122. Ruth Roded, Women in Islamic Biographical Collections: From Ibn Sad to Whos Who (1994). Ibrahim Hafsi, Recherches sur le genre tabaqat dans la literature arabe, Arabica, 23 (1976):227-65; 24 (1977): 1-41, 150-86. George Makdisi, Tabaqat-Biography: Law and Orthodoxy in Classical Islam, Islamic Studies (Islamabad), 32 (1993): 371-96. PART II: Biographical Dictionaries Week 3: General Biographical Dictionaries al-Dhahabi, Siyar alam al-nubala (ed. Shuayb al-Arnaut) al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-huffaz Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-ayan (trans. Baron William M. Slane) Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali, Shadharat al-dhahab Scott Lucas, Constructive Critics, Hadith Literature and the Articulation of Sunni Islam (2004): 40-112; 157-92. Week 4: Companions & Successors (sahaba and tabiun) Ibn Sad, Kitab al-tabaqat al-kabir (Complete edition not in UA library) Abu Nuaym al-Isbahani, Marifat al-sahaba Ibn al-Athir, Usd al-ghaba Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, al-Isaba fi tamyiz al-sahaba Lucas, Constructive Critics, 202-8; 266-75. Lucas, Al-Hakim al-Naysaburi and the Companions of the Prophet: An Original Sunni Voice in the Shii Century (forthcoming). Week 5: Hadith Scholars & Critics al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-kabir

3 Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa al-tadil al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-kamal (not in UA library) al-Dhahabi, Mizan al-itidal Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Tahdhib al-tahdhib, al-Taqrib, & Tahrir al-taqrib Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Lisan al-mizan Lucas, Constructive Critics, 113-56. Christopher Melchert, Bukhari and Early Hadith Criticism, JAOS, 121 (2001): 7-19. Eerik Dickinson, The Development of Early Sunnite Hadith Criticism: The Taqdima of Ibn Abi Hatim al-Razi (2001). Week 6: Cities & Regions al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Tarikh Madinat al-salam=Tarikh Baghdad Ibn Asakir, Tarikh madinat Dimashq (80 vols; UA only has a Mukhtasar) Ibn Samura, Tabaqat fuqaha al-Yaman Ibn al-Faradi, Tarikh al-ulama wa al-ruwat li-l-ilm bi-l-Andalus Ibn al-Khatib, al-Ihata fi akhbar Gharnata al-Suyuti, Husn al-muhadara fi akhbar Misr wa al-Qahira Dominique Urvoy, Le Monde des Ulmas andalous du V/XIe au VII/XIIIe sicle: tude sociologique (1978). David Morray, An Ayyubid Notable and His World: Ibn al-Adim and Aleppo as portrayed in his biographical dictionary of people associate with the city (1994) Daphna Ephrat, A Learned Society in a Period of Transition: the Sunni ulama of eleventh century Baghdad (2000). Weeks 7 & 8: Legal Scholars Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi, Tabaqat al-fuqaha al-Nawawi, Tahdhib al-asma wa al-lughat Taj al-Din al-Subki, Tabaqat al-Shafiiyya al-kubra (not in UA library) Ibn Abi al-Wafa, al-Jawahir al-mudiyya fi tabaqat al-Hanafiyya Qadi Iyad, Tartib al-madarik wa taqrib al-masalik li-marifat alam madhhab Malik Ibn Farhun, al-Dibaj al-mudhahhab fi marifat ayan ulama al-madhhab Ibn Abi Yala, Tabaqat al-Hanabila Muhammad b. al-Hasan al-Tusi, Fihrist Muhammad Baqir al-Khuwansari, Rawdat al-jannat fi ahwal al-ulama wa al-sadat R. Kevin Jaques, Authority, Conflict, and the Transmission of Diversity in Medieval Islamic Law (2006). (Not in UA library) Christopher Melchert, The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law (1997). Hossein Modarressi, An Introduction to Shii Law: A bibliographical study (1984). Week 9: Theologians al-Ashari, Maqalat al-islamiyyin

4 Ibn Hazm, al-Fisal fi al-milal wa al-ahwa wa al-nihal (Spanish translation: Miguel Asin Palacios, Abenhazam de Cordoba Y Su Historia Critica De Les Ideas Religiosas [1927-32], vols. 3-5) al-Shahrastani, al-Milal wa al-nihal (Partial English translation: Muslim Sects and Divisions, trans. A.K. Kazi and J.G. Flynn [1984]) (Not in UA library) Ibn al-Murtada, Tabaqat al-Mutazila = Die Klassen der Mutazaliten (in Arabic) al-Qadi Abd al-Jabbar, Fadl al-itizal wa tabaqat al-Mutazila (ed. Fuad Sayyid) Josef van Ess, Theologie und Gesellschaft im 2. und 3. Jahrhundert Hidschra, 6 vols. (1991-7). (Not in UA library) Week 10: Sufis al-Sulami, Tabaqat al-sufiyya al-Sulami, Dhikr al-niswa al-mutaabbidat al-sufiyyat = Early Sufi Women, trans. Rkia Cornell (1999) (Not in UA library) Abu Nuaym al-Isbafani, Hilyat al-awliya al-Sharani, al-Tabaqat al-kubra = Lawaqih al-anwar fi tabaqat al-akhyar Jawid Mojaddedi, The Biographical tradition in Sufism: from al-Sulami to Jami (2001). Al-Qushayris Epistle on Sufism, trans. Alexander Knysh (2007): 17-74. Week 11: Other biographical dictionaries & useful classical sources al-Samani, al-Ansab Yaqut al-Hamawi, Mujam al-udaba Yaqut al-Hamawi, Mujam al-buldan al-Suyuti, Bukhyat al-wua fi tabaqat al-lughawiyyin wa al-nuha Ibn Abi Usayba, Uyun al-anba fi tabaqat al-atibba Abu al-Faraj al-Isbahani, Kitab al-aghani Ibn Qutayba, al-Shir wa al-shuara PART III: Overview of Classical Sunni Commentaries Weeks 12-15: A Selection of Classical Sunni Commentaries A) Quran Commentaries (tafsir): www.altafsir.com al-Tabari, Jami al-bayan an tawil ay al-Quran al-Zamakhshari, al-Kashshaf al-Baghawi, Tafsir al-Baghawi = Maalim al-tanzil al-Razi, al-Tafsir al-kabir = Mafatih al-ghayb (Not in UA library) al-Baydawi, Anwar al-tanzil wa asrar al-tawil al-Qurtubi, al-Jami li-ahkam al-Quran Abu Hayyan al-Gharnati, Tafsir al-bahr al-muhit Ibn Kathir, Tafsir al-Quran al-azim al-Suyuti, al-Durr al-manthur fi al-tafsir al-mathur & al-Jalalayn B) Hadith Commentaries al-Tahawi, Sharh maani al-athar (not technically a commentary)

5 al-Khattabi, Maalim al-sunan sharh Sunan Abi Dawud Ibn al-Arabi, Arida al-ahwadhi bi-sharh Sahih al-Tirmidhi (Not in UA library) Ibn Abd al-Barr, al-Tamhid & al-Istidhkar al-Nawawi, Sharh Sahih Muslim Ibn Battal, Sharh Sahih al-Bukhari Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Fath al-bari bi-sharh Sahih al-Bukhari Badr al-Din al-Ayni, Umdat al-qari sharh Sahih al-Bukhari al-Qastallani, Irshad al-sari li-sharh Sahih al-Bukhari al-Bayhaqi, al-Sunan al-kubra (not technically a commentary) al-Baghawi, Sharh al-sunna (not technically a commentary)