Essays in Islamic Philology, History, and Philosophy: A Festschrift in Celebration and Honor of Professor Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani's 90th Birthday

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The articles in this volume are dedicated to Professor Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani for the breadth and depth of his interests and his influence on those interests. They attest to the fact that his fervor and rigorously surgical attention to detail have found fertile ground in a wide variety of disciplines, including (among others) Persian literature and philology; Islamic history and historiography; Arabic literature and philology; and Islamic philosophy and jurisprudence. The volume has brought together some of the most respected scholars in the fields of Islamic studies and Islamic literatures, all his prior students, to contribute with articles that touch on the fields Professor Mahdavi Damghani has so permanently touched with his astonishing scholarship and attention to detail. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Tabula Gratulatoria Selected Bibliography of Professor Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani Part I: Classical Persian Literature and Philology Moving toward the Modern: The Nationalist Imagery of Malik al‑Shu‘arā Bahār Old Iranian Motifs in Vīs o Rāmīn Astronomical Poems from the “Four Corners” of Persia (c. 1000–1500 CE) Part II: Classical Arabic Literature and Philology Moving from Persian to Arabic The Iconic Sībawayh Naming Shuʿūbīs Part III: Islamic Theology, Islamic Jurisprudence and Islamic Philosophy Prioritizing Metaphysics over Epistemology: Divine Justice (‘Adl) and Human Reason (‘Aql) in al-Shaykh al-Mufīd’s Theology Returning to God through His Names: Cosmology and Dhikr in a Fourteenth-Century Sufi Treatise Friendship in Islamic Ethical Philosophy The Poetic Syllogism: Foray into an Inductive Research Proposal The Scattered and the Gathered: Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī’s Infrequently Asked Questions ‘Aql (Reason) in Modern Shiite Thought: The Example of Muḥammad Jawād Maghniyya (1904–79) Ṭūsī Did Not “Opt Out”: Shiite Jurisprudence and the Solidification of the Stoning Punishment in the Islamic Legal Tradition ʿAlī’s Contemplations on this World and the Hereafter in the Context of His Life and Times Part IV: Islamic History and Historiography Al-ʿAṭṭāf b. Sufyān and Abbasid Imperialism An Early Arabic Conversion Story: The Case of al-Faḍl b. Sahl A Translation of the Prolegomena to Żiyāʾ al-Dīn Baranī’s Tārīkh-i Fīrūzshāhī Index of Names Index of Geographical Places