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This volume, which pays tribute to the work of G.H.A. Juynboll, is a collection of original articles on the state of Islamic sciences and Arabic culture in the early phases of their crystallization.; Readership: Specialists and advanced students interested in early and medieval Islam and the various branches of Islamic learning and literature, such as hadith scholarship, Qur'anic studies, history, book lore and grammar.

Part 1. Life and times of Ibn òHazm -- Abu Muhammad 'Ali Ibn Hazm : a biographical sketch / Josâe Miguel Puerta Vâilchez -- A portrait of the °åalim as a young man : the formative years of Ibn òHazm, 404/1013-420/1029 / Bruna Soravia -- Ibn òHazm and the territory of Huelva: personal and family relationships / Alejandro Garcâia Sanjuâan -- Ibn òHazm and al-Andalus / David J. Wasserstein -- Ibn òHazm on history : a few remarks / Gabriel Martinez-Gros -- Part 2. Legal aspects -- Ibn òHazm's literalism : a critique of Islamic legal theory / Adam Sabra -- La doctrine sur l'exercice de la justice : un exemple du dâesaccord entre Ibn òHazm et les måalikites / Alfonso Carmona Gonzâalez -- Claim (Da°wa) or Complaint (Shakwåa)? Ibn òHazm's and Qåaòdåi °Iyåaòd's doctrines on accusations of rape / Delfina Serrano -- Part III. Linguistics -- Ibn Maòdåa® as a òZåahiråi Grammarian / Kees Versteegh -- Which curiousity? Ibn òHazm's suspicion of grammarians / Salvador Peäna -- Part IV. Art and aesthetics -- Art and aesthetics in the work of Ibn òHazm of Cordoba / Josâe Miguel Puerta Vâilchez -- Part V. Theology, Philosophy and ethics -- Ibn òHazm's sources on Ash'arism and Mu'tazilism / Sabine Schmidtke -- Aristotle and Ibn òHazm : on the logic of the Taqråib / Rafael Ramâon Guerrero -- Ibn òHazm's logical pedigree / Joep Lameer -- Ibn òHazm on sins and salvation / Christian Lange -- Part VI. Interreligious polemics -- The testimony of reason and the historical reality : Ibn òHazm's refutation of Christianity / Martin-Samuel Behloul -- Le sens de al polâemique anti-biblique chez Ibn òHazm / Dominique Urvoy -- Ibn òHazm and the Jewish zindåiq / Maribel Fierro -- Part VII. Reception -- Shurayòh al-Ru'aynåi and the transmission of the works of Ibn òHazm / Camilla Adang -- Refutations of Ibn òHazm by Måalikåi authors from al-Andalus and North-Africa / Samir Kaddouri -- Elements of acceptance and rejection in Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's systematic reading of Ibn òHazm / Livnat Holtzman -- Ibn òHazm selon certains savants shåi'ites / Hassan Ansari -- The reception of Ibn òHazm in Arabic chronicles / Luis Molina -- Part VIII. Bibliography -- Inventory of Ibn òHazm's works / Josâe Miguel Puerta Vâilchez -- Ibn Hòazm, bibliography of secondary sources / Leigh Chipman

Judith Pfeiffer: Confessional polarization in the 17th century Ottoman Empire and Yūsuf İbn Ebī ʿAbdü'dDeyyān's Keşfü'l-esrār fī ilzāmi'l-Yehūd ve'l-aḥbār / Camilla Adang: Guided to Islam by the Torah: The Risāla alhādiya by ʿAbd al-Salām al-Muhtadī al-Muḥammadī /Sabine Schmidtke: Epistle forcing the Jews [to admit their error] with regard to what they contend about the Torah, by dialectical reasoning (Risālat ilzām al-yahūd fīmā zaʿamū fī l-tawrāt min qibal ʿilm al-kalām) by alSalām ʿAbd al-ʿAllām. A critical edition / Monika Hasenmüller: Die Beschreibung Muḥammads im Evangelium. Eine muslimische Polemik gegen die Christen aus dem osmanischen Reich (Anfang 18. Jhdt.) / Paolo Lucca: Šabbetay Ṣewi and the Messianic Temptations of Ottoman Jews in the Seventeenth Century According to Christian Armenian Sources / Elisabetta Borromeo: Le clergé catholique face au pouvoir ottoman. Les brevets de nomination (berât) des évêques et des archevêques (17ème siècle) / Heleen Murre-van den Berg : Apostasy or 'a House Built on Sand'. Jews, Muslims and Christians in East-Syriac texts (1500-1850) / Rudi Matthee: The Politics of Protection. Iberian Missionaries in Safavid Iran under Shāh ʿAbbās I (1587-1629) / Dennis Halft: Schiitische Polemik gegen das Christentum im safawidischen Iran des 11./17. Jhdts. Sayyid Aḥmad ʿAlawīs Lawāmiʿ-i rabbānī dar radd-i šubha-yi naṣrānī / Reza Pourjavady – Sabine Schmidtke: Sayyid Muḥammad Mahdī alBurūjirdī al-Ṭabāṭabāʾī's (d. 1212/1797) debate with the Jews of Dhu l-Kifl. A survey of its transmission, with critical editions of its Arabic and Persian versions / Vera B. Moreen: Iranian Jewish History Reflected in JudaeoPersian Literature

Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled unearths forgotten texts that once belonged to the library of the Karaite community in Cairo. Consigned to oblivion for centuries, many of these manuscripts were sold in the second half of the nineteenth century to the National Library of Russia in St Petersburg, where they remained inaccessible to most scholars until the end of the Cold War.