چکیده:
Muslim authors composed a number of polemics against the employment
of non-Muslim state officials in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Egypt
and Syria. This essay argues that the majority of these works drew directly or
indirectly on a previously unremarked sixth/twelfth century common source.
Although the common source cannot yet be securely identified, its existence and
influence have significant implications for historians’ understanding of interreligious
tensions in late medieval Egypt and Syria and for the Nachleben of innovative
literary compositions in this period. Specifically, the detection of this source
stretches accepted chronologies of the late-medieval surge of anti-dhimmī sentiment
in the Islamic Middle East decades earlier and raises the question of literary
works’ role in catalyzing religious violence and exclusion.
خلاصه ماشینی:
1515/islam-2016-0006 Downloaded from De Gruyter Online at 09/24/2016 08:00:10PM via Freie Universität Berlin Works in the genre The following list of authors and titles presents the genre as it has been identified to date.
1515/islam-2016-0006 Downloaded from De Gruyter Online at 09/24/2016 08:00:10PM via Freie Universität Berlin Relationships among the works At least ten of these thirteen sources were dependent, to varying degrees, on material contained in the twelfthcentury CS.
Durar al-ādāb can be shown to be relevant, despite the loss of the manuscript por tions that included the section on nonMuslim officials, because excerpts from that section were quoted by the twelfth/eighteenthcentury jurist alSaffārīnī in 12 The only reference of which I am aware is an editor’s footnote in the most recent edition of Ibn alWāsiṭī’s Radd.
ʿAbd alʿAzīz wrote …” The letter of ʿUmar II that follows is closely related to versions found in the works by Ibn alNābulusī, Ibn alWāsiṭī, Ibn alQayyim, and Ibn alNaqqāsh, and in the anonymous al-Qawl al-mukhtār.
1515/islam-2016-0006 Downloaded from De Gruyter Online at 09/24/2016 08:00:10PM via Freie Universität Berlin Now, it is worth entertaining the possibility that this observed pattern results from changes introduced by alSaffārīnī when copying from the work of alMa lik alManṣūr, and not actually from the agreement of Ibn alNābulusī’s and Ibn alQayyim’s works with one another against that of alMalik alManṣūr.
1515/islam-2016-0006 Downloaded from De Gruyter Online at 09/24/2016 08:00:10PM via Freie Universität Berlin (IQ) can be represented in the following way (Ibn alWāsiṭī, Ibn alNaqqāsh, and al-Qawl al-mukhtār are omitted because they are derivative of IN and IQ, as will be argued shortly).
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