List of contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of contributors IX
4. The Maghrib in the Mashriq. Knowledge, Travel and Identity. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Establishing Boundaries between the Maghrib and the Mashriq
6. Constructing the Boundary between Mashriq and Maghrib in Medieval Muslim Sources 35
7. Ibn Saʿīd al-Maghribī: Egypt as Part of the Maghrib 79
8. Part II: Integrating the Maghrib into Universal Islamic History
9. Al-Andalus in al-Mukhtaṣar fī akhbār albashar, by Abū al-Fidāʾ 99
10. Lost Somewhere in Between? On the Transmission of History from Islamic West to East in Premodern Times: The Case of the Almohad Caliph Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb and the Battle of Alarcos 119
11. Communicating a Biography: A Comparison of the Maghribi-Andalusi and Mashriqi Sources on al-Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ 143
12. Part III: Maghribi Success in the East
13. A Majorcan in Baghdad. Al-Ḥumaydī’s Jamʿ bayn al-Ṣaḥīḥayn and Its Reception in the Mashriq 171
14. The Impact of Maghribi Ḥadīth Commentaries on the Mashriq 213
15. Andalusi Scholars on Qurʾānic Readings in the Islamic East: The Case of Abū al-Qāsim al-Shāṭibī (538–590 H/1143–1194 CE) 237
16. On the Success of Ibn Saʿīd al-Maghribī’s al-Mughrib in the Islamic East 257
17. A Successful Andalusi muwashshaḥa: ʿUbāda b. Māʾ al-Samāʾ’s Man walī 285
18. Part IV: Pathways of Reception from the Maghrib to the Mashriq
19. Andalusi Romance Terms in Kitāb al-Simāt fī asmāʾ al-nabāt, by al-Suwaydī of Damascus (d. 690 H/1291 CE) 357
20. The Influence of Andalusi Ṣūfism on the Central Islamicate World: Ibn Sabʿīn’s son and his Kitāb al-Sulūk fī ṭarīq al-qawm 371
21. Isnād of Ibn Khaldūn: Maghribi Tradition of Knowledge in Mamlūk Cairo 399
22. Mālikī Jurists from the Maghrib and al- Andalus in Post-Fāṭimid Egypt 411
23. Traces of the Medieval Islamic West in Modern East Africa: Andalusi and Maghribi Works in the Horn of Africa 435
24. Part V: Remaining Maghribi while in the Mashriq
25. Vehicles of Cultural Identity: Some Thoughts on Maghribi Scripts and Manuscripts in the Mashriq 455
26. A Mamlūk-Andalusi Holograph Manuscript of the Former Marīnid Chancellor Muḥammad Ibn Ḥizb Allāh al-Wādī Āshī (d. 788 H/1386 CE) 477
27. Writing the Biography of Ibn Khaldūn 513
28. Index of Names and Places 537