Open Access Journal: Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists

Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists
ISSN: 1068-1051

Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is an international professional non-profit association of scholars interested in the study of the medieval Middle East, expansively defined to include all geographies with prominent Muslim political, religious, or social presences, at some point between the rough parameters of 500-1500 CE.

MEM has two primary goals. The first is to increase the representation of medieval scholarship at scholarly meetings in North America and elsewhere by co-sponsoring panels. The other principal objective of MEM is to foster communication among individuals and organizations with an interest in the study of the medieval Middle East. MEM also hopes, in the future, to advance the study of the medieval Middle East by undertaking such projects as scholar exchanges, conferences, etc.

As part of its effort to promote scholarship and facilitate communication among its members, MEM publishes Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists.
MEM officially came into existence on 15 November 1989 at its first annual meeting, held in Toronto. MEM conducts its business meeting annually in the autumn, normally in conjunction with the meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), which is usually held in November. The general business meeting is open to all current members of MEM and to those considering membership. The Board of Directors of MEM is elected annually at the general business meeting. MEM is incorporated in the state of Illinois; contributions to MEM are considered exempt from federal income tax by the United States Internal Revenue Service.

Volume 27 (2019) – Current issue

Front Matter
Table of Contents
Letter from the Editors

MEM AWARDS
Remarks by Donald Whitcomb, Recipient of the 2018 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award

ARTICLES
In Search of the Early Islamic Economy
Michael Bonner
Reacting to Muḥammad: Three Early Islamic Poets in the Kitāb al-Aghānī
Pamela Klasova
A Newly Discovered Letter of the Early Arabic Alphabet: A Distinction between Final Jīm and Final Ḥāʾ/Khāʾ and its Nabatean Origins
Marijn van Putten
Nourishing the Noble: Breastfeeding and Hero-Making in Medieval Arabic Popular Literature
Rachel Schine
An Unexpected Romance: Reevaluating the Authorship of the Khosrow-nāma
Austin O’Malley

REVIEW ESSAY
Women, Identity, and Power: A Review Essay of Antony Eastmond, Tamta’s World
Zaroui Pogossian

CONFERENCE REPORTS
Mysticism and Ethics in Islam (American University of Beirut, 2-3 May 2019)
Louise Gallorini

BOOK REVIEWS
Daniel Alan Brubaker, Corrections in Early Qurʾānic Manuscripts: Twenty Examples
Hythem Sidky
Jennifer A. Cromwell, Recording Village Life: A Coptic Scribe in Early Islamic Egypt
Marie Legendre
Mathieu Tillier, L’invention du cadi: La justice des Musulmans, des Juifs et des Chrétiens aux premiers siècles de l’Islam
Steven Judd
Hans-Peter Pökel, Der unmännliche Mann: Zur Figuration des Eunuchen im Werk von al-Ǧāḥiẓ (gest. 869)
Ignacio Sánchez
Scott Savran, Arabs and Iranians in the Islamic Conquest Narrative: Memory and Identity Construction in Islamic Historiography, 750-1050
Ryan J. Lynch
Adam Talib, How Do You Say “Epigram” in Arabic? Literary History at the Limits of Comparison
Rachel Schine
William Chester Jordan, The Apple of His Eye: Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IX
Janna Bianchini
Joel Blecher, Said the Prophet of God: Hadith Commentary across a Millennium
L. W. Cornelis van Lit, O.P.
Thomas A. Carlson, Christianity in Fifteenth-Century Iraq
Jonathan Parkes Allen
Khaled El-Rouayheb and Sabine Schmidtke (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy
Coleman Connelly

IN MEMORIAM
Speros Vryonis, Jr. (1928-2019)
Gary Leiser
Kenneth Holum (1939-2017)
Gideon Avni, Elizabeth Conner, Alan Walmsley
Michael Bonner (1952-2019)
Steven Judd, Alison Vacca, Robert Haugh, Noah Gardiner, Antoine Borrut

Back Matter

Volume 26 (2018)

Volume 25 (2017)
Volume 24 (2016)

Volume 23 (2015)

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