Foreword (By Tarif Khalidi) -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction (By Sebastian Günther) -- Chapter One Context Equivalence: A Hitherto Insufficiently Studied Use of the Quran in Political Speeches from the Early Period of Islam (By Stephan Dähne) -- Chapter Two Classical Heritage and New Literary Forms: Literary Activities of Christians during the Umayyad Period (By Ute Pietruschka) -- Chapter Three Refuting the Charge of Tahrīf: Abū Rā'ita (d. ca. 835) and his "First Risāla on the Holy Trinity" (By Sandra Toenies Keating) -- Chapter Four Meeting the Patron: An Akhbār Type and its Implications for Muhdath Poetry (By Beatrice Gruendler) -- Chapter Five Advice for Teachers: The 9th Century Muslim Scholars Ibn Sahnūn and al-Jāhiz on Pedagogy and Didactics (By Sebastian Günther) -- Chapter Six Medieval Muslim Scholarship and Social Network Analysis: A Study of the Basra/Kufa Dichotomy in Arabic Grammar (By Monique Bernards) -- Chapter Seven The Contribution of the Mawālī to the Six Sunnite Canonical Hadīth Collections (By John Nawas) -- Chapter Eight Portrayal of the Hajj as a Context for Women's Exegesis: Textual Evidence in al-Bukhārī's (d. 870) "al-Sāhīh" (By Aisha Geissinger) -- Chapter Nine Image Formation of an Islamic Legend: Fātima, the Daughter of the Prophet Muhammad (By Verena Klemm) -- Chapter Ten Narratives and Character Development: Al-Tabarī and al-Balādhurī on Late Umayyad History (By Steven C. Judd) -- Chapter Eleven "The Alchemy of Happiness": Al-Ghazālī's Kīmiyā and the Origins of the Khwājagān-Naqshbandiyya Principles (By Alexei A. Khismatulin) -- Chapter Twelve Taqlīd of the Philosophers: Al-Ghazālī's Initial Accusation in his Tahāfut (By Frank Griffel) -- Chapter Thirteen The Spread of Zāhirism in Post-Caliphal al-Andalus: The Evidence from the Biographical Dictionaries (By Camilla Adang).

Chapter Fourteen Working within Structure: Al-Zamakhsharī (d. 1144): A Late Mu'tazilite Quran Commentator at Work (By Andrew J. Lane) -- Chapter Fifteen The First Islamic Revolt in Mamlūk Collective Memory: Ibn Bakr's (d. 1340) Portrayal of the Third Caliph 'Uthmān (By Heather Keaney) -- Chapter Sixteen The Sword and the Pen in the Pre-Modern Arabic Heritage: A Literary Representation of an Important Historical Relationship (By Adrian Gully) -- About the Authors -- Indices -- Proper Names -- Geographical Names and Toponyms -- Titles of Books and Other Texts -- Quranic References -- Topics and Keywords.