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The papers in this volume all share an interest in the scholarly practices of premodern Muslim authors. They discuss and reflect on a variety of Muslim scholarly practices both within and beyond the scope of Kohlberg’s methods and fields of inquiry. Their topics range from the theoretical question of the permissibility of relying on books without proper training to reconstruction of no longer extant sources used by medieval authors. Also discussed are the ways in which authors adapted their sources as well as the impact of sectarian identity on the presentation of historical figures such as Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq.
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Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Islamic History and Civilization
Publication Date:
15 October 2026
ISBN: 9789004766686
Format: Hardcover
Sabine Schmidtke (DPhil 1990, University of Oxford) is a permanent member of the faculty of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She has published on topics ranging from Shīʿism, intersections of Jewish and Muslim intellectual history, and the Arabic Bible to the history of Orientalism.
Joseph Witztum (PhD 2011, Princeton University) teaches in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His interests include the Quran and its exegesis, Syriac recastings of biblical lore, and Rabbinics.
Joseph Witztum (PhD 2011, Princeton University) teaches in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His interests include the Quran and its exegesis, Syriac recastings of biblical lore, and Rabbinics.