Islamic Reflections, Arabic MusingsStudies in Honour of Alan Jones

Contents include:

• Maysir-gambling in early Arabic poetry (N Jamil)
• The Qu’ran as a source of law: the case of zakat (alms-tax) (Y Dutton)
• On the difficulty of knowing medieval Arab authors: the case of Abu I-Faraj and pseudo-Isfahani (H Kilpatrick)
• Mahfuz’s urban battlegrounds (R Ostle)Inscriptions of companions of the prophet in the Merv Oasis (V Porter)
• Muslim jizya-payers in Christian Sicily (J Johns)
• The Mu’allaqat in the west: a brief bibliographical survey (H Bleaney)
• Theomnestus of Nicopolis, Hunayn ibn Ishaq, and the beginnings of Islamic veterinary science (R Hoyland)
• Historians and the Arabic biographical dictionary (P Auchterlonie)