AL-‘USUR AL-WUSTA, VOLUME 23 (2015)
Front Matter
Letter from the Editors
MEM AWARDS
Remarks by Patricia Crone, Recipient of the 2014 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award
Remarks by R. Stephen Humphreys, Recipient of the 2013 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award
ARTICLES
Muḥammad’s Deputies in Medina
Michael Cook
Māwardī’s Legal Thinking
Christopher Melchert
Ibn A‘tham and his History
Lawrence I. Conrad
NOTES & BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS
Can Doctoral Dissertations Disappear? A Look at Ibrahim al-Hafsi’s “Correspondance officielle et privée d’al-Qāḍī al-Fāḍil” and its Prospects in a Digital Age
Bogdan C. Smarandache
BOOK REVIEWS
Stephennie Mulder, The Shrines of the ‘Alids in Medieval Syria: Sunnis, Shi‘is and the Architecture of Coexistence
Zayde Antrim
Robert Hoyland, In God’s Path. The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
Fred M. Donner
‘Abd al-Raḥmān Maḥjūbī, Al-Muṣṭalaḥ al-ḥadīthī min khilāl Kitāb al-Jarḥ wa-al-ta‘dīl li-Ibn Abī Ḥātim al-Rāzī (240–327 H)
Christopher Melchert
Seta Dadoyan, The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World: Paradigms of Interaction, Seventh to Fourteenth Centuries. Volume One: The Arab Period in Armīnyah, Seventh to Eleventh Centuries
Alison M. Vacca
Ṭaha Ḥusayn ‘Awaḍ Hudayl, Tamarrudāt al-qabīla fī ‘aṣr al-dawla al-Rasūlīya wa-atharhā fī al-ḥayāt al-‘āmma fī al-Yaman (626–858 H)
Daniel Martin Varisco
Aziz al-Azmeh, The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity: Allāh and his people
Peter Webb
Jāsim Muḥammad Kaẓim, Ahl al-dhimmah fī l-mujtama‘ al-Baghdādī fī l-‘ahdayn al-Buwayhī wa-l-Saljūqī
Luke Yarbrough
IN MEMORIAM
Thierry Bianquis (1935–2014)
Peri Bearman
Irene “Renie” A. Bierman-McKinney (1942–2015)
Jere L. Bacharach
Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928–2015)
Arezou Azad
Clifford Edmund Bosworth: An Updated Bibliography
Michael O’Neal
“With All Good Wishes”: Remembering Patricia Crone (1945–2015)
Karen Bauer, Bella Tendler Krieger, Deborah Tor, Kevin Van Bladel
Wolfhart P. Heinrichs (1941–2014)
Michael Cooperson
George T. Scanlon (1925–2014)
Iman Abdulfattah
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Join MEM or renew your MEMbership: An invitation from Middle East Medievalists
George T. Scanlon Graduate Student Award in Arab and Islamic Civilizations