Studies in Islamic and Middle Eastern Texts and Traditions: In Memory of Norman Calder

Calder, Norman (Editor)/ Mojaddedi, Jawid A. (Editor)/ Samely, Alexander (Editor)/ Hawting, G. R. (Editor)/ Mojaddedi, J. A. (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0199290067 / ISBN 13: 9780199290062

Published by Oxford Univ Pr, 2001

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306 pages. 10.00x6.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Studies in Islamic and Middle Eastern Texts and Traditions: In Memory of Norman Calder
• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199290067
• ISBN 13: 9780199290062
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.8 kilograms

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Synopsis

This volume of essays in honor of the late Norman Calder contains articles on a variety of topics that will interest scholars and students of Middle Eastern cultures. Contributors are renowned, like Calder, for their sophisticated and challenging approaches to Arabic and Islamic texts.

About the Author

Gerald Hawting is a Senior Lecturer in the History of the Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental and Asian Studies in London. Jawid Mojaddedi is Lecturer in Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. Alexander Samely is Senior Lecturer in Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester. Norman Calder, who died on 13/2/98 at the age of 47, was one of the leading international scholars in the academic study of Islamic jurisprudence and hermeneutics. At the time of his retirement due to ill health in 1997, he was Senior Lecturer in Arabic in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Manchester (UK) and holder of a British Academy Fellowship. As well as 18 articles in leading academic journals and contributions to several scholarly encyclopaedias, he was the author of Studies in Early Muslim Jurisprudence (Clarendon Press Oxford 1993).