Law and Education in Medieval Islam: Studies in Memory of Professor George Makdisi
This volume, focusing on legal education and its place in classical and medieval Islamic civilisation, comprises eight articles written in honour of Professor George Makdisi (1925-2002), seven of them by his former students at the University of Pennsylvania (William Granara, Sherman Jackson, Gary Leiser, Joseph Lowry, Christopher Melchert, Devin Stewart, and Shawkat Toorawa). One article is by George Makdisi's friend and Islamicist colleague Bernard Weiss, and the Preface by George Makdisi's...
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Colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania and other scholars present 10 studies to honor historian of Islamic law, theology, and education Makdisi (1920-2002). Among their topics are colleges of law and the institutions of Medieval Sunni Islam, the etiquette of learning in the early Islamic study circle, and the reception of al-Shafi'is's concept of amr and nahy in the thought of his student al-Muzani. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
al-Anwar al-qudsiyah fi al-ahwal al-MaqdisiyahPreface : the trail and scent of learning1Colleges of law and the institutions of medieval Sunni Islam12Nomos kai paideia : a bibliography of George Makdisi's publications73Discipline and duty in a medieval Muslim elementary school : Ibn Hajar al-Haytami's Taqrir al-maqal184The etiquette of learning in the early Islamic study circle335The doctorate of Islamic law in Mamluk Egypt and Syria456A portrait of [superscript c]Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi's education and instruction917Medieval Islamic legal education as reflected in the works of Sayf al-Din al-Amidi1108The reception of al-Shafi[superscript c]i's concept of Amr and Nahy in the thought of his student al-Muzani1289Islamic education and the transmission of knowledge in Muslim Sicily15010The Madrasah and the Islamization of Anatolia before the Ottomans174
