| Julia Bray, Al-Thaʿālibī’s Ādāb al-Mulūk, a local mirror for princes |
| Beatrice Gruendler, Convention and danger of the ʿAbbāsid ghazal |
| Discussion: Wen-Chin Ouyang |
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| Paul L. Heck, Al-JuwaynĪ and inquisitorial religion |
| John Turner, The vigilante movements of Sahl b. Salāma and Khālid al-Daryūsh reconsidered |
| Discussion: Chase Robinson |
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| Michael Cooperson, The Kitāb al-bukhalāʾ of al-JāÎiÛ as an attack on the zuhd |
| Joseph E. Lowry, Al-Shāfiʿī and later uṣūl al-fiqh: A preliminary assessment using a key concept from the Risāla |
| Discussion: Camilla Adang |
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| Judy Ahola and Letizia Osti, Mapping the textual evidence: Baghdad at the time of al-Muqtadir |
| Alastair Northedge, The history of the Nahrawān canal |
| Discussion: Hugh Kennedy |
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| Devin Stewart, Notes on Polosin’s study of the Fihrist |
| Shawkat M. Toorawa, How (and who) does Ibn al-Nadīm cluster? Looking for answers in Fihrist 3.3. |
| Discussion: Chase Robinson |
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| Robert Gleave, Early Imāmī Ḥadīth (and early Imāmī attitudes toward Ḥadīth) |
| Johan Weststeijn, Dreams, the ʿAbbāsids, and al-Ṭabarī’s “History” |
| Discussion: Camilla Adang |
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| Maaike van Berkel, The state subject versus the state secretary: Rules and procedures for complaining about the abuse of governmental officials |
| Nadia Cheikh, Guardians, masters of ceremonials, and political actors: Chamberlains in the fourth/tenth century ʿAbbāsid court |
| Discussion: James Montgomery |
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| Omar Ali-de-Unzaga, The topos of the “faithful friends/pure brethren”: A reconsideration of the dating and the name of the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Şafā |
| Philip Kennedy, Anagnorisis in falsafa: An overview of the concept |
| Discussion: Ismail Poonawala and James Montgomery |
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| Hayrettin Yucesoy, The caliphate and the search for Ur-monotheism in ʿAbbāsid history |
| John Nawas, ʿAbbāsid opposition to the reign of al-Maʾmūn |
| Ghada Jayyusi-Lehn, Abū Tammām: The poet and the historian of the ʿAbbāsid Caliph al-Muʿtaṣim? |
| Discussion: Patricia Crone |
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| Shawkat Toorawa, The Official Web Site of the ʿAbbāsid Empire |
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