Description: The studies in this volume, which cover an unusually wide range of topics in the Arabic humanities and Islamic thought, explore the richness of the Arabic literary tradition and Islamic intellectual life from the beginnings of Islam to the present.
Brief description:
Joseph E. Lowry, (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1999) teaches Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and is an editor of the Library of Arabic Literature.
Shawkat M. Toorawa, (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1998), teaches Arabic language and literature at Yale University and is an editor of the Library of Arabic Literature.
Review Quotes: "Enthralling and titillating, this is an impressive compilation of papers written in honor of Everett K. Rowson, covering a suprisingly vast number o fields, in perception heretic, challenging, and informative, positively adding to the extant literature." - Stavros Nikolaidis, in: Journal of Oriental and African Studies 27 (2018)